Wordgrove Post & Review

THIS EDITION: vision

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Quoted In The Grove:
Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It’s an ego trip, and I’m not on an ego trip. I don’t have ambitions ‒ I have a vision.
~Werner Herzog

A lot of times, people start out with a lot of good ideas, but then they don’t execute. They lose the purity of their vision. You end up running around in circles.
~Jan Koum

Success means your options multiply. Size increases complexity, and complexity can confuse vision.
~Andy Stanley

EndQuote:
It doesn’t matter how fast you can go, it doesn’t matter how much passion you have, and it doesn’t matter how much energy you put into something. If you don’t have a vision and clarity on the destination you want to reach, you’ll simply never get there.
~Dean Graziosi

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Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
~James Lane Allen

I think that the greatest gift God ever gave man is not the gift of sight but the gift of vision. Sight is a function of the eyes, but vision is a function of the heart.
~Myles Munroe

Whatever causes you to drop your plan forward and open to your vision, your own, deeply personal vision of what your life could be at its very best, that’s what I call meeting your rhinoceros.
~Martha Beck

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Don’t buy this ‘believe in yourself’ rubbish. Why do they keep telling youngsters that? There’s no point believing in yourself if you don’t know what you’re doing. Once you’ve got a vision of what you want to do, by all means stick to that passionately and doggedly. Believe in your ideas. It’s not quite the same thing.
~Steve Winwood

Vision is a romantic thing. We have got into ‘talent identification’. I am much more interested in passion ‒ finding people who are really excited about doing something.
~Sebastian Coe

Without vision, even the most focused passion is a battery without a device.
~Ken Auletta

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When I first came to Wakefield Cathedral, I thought, ‘How does man conceive to build something like this?’ It’s a building that has transcended time over the centuries, and you appreciate the magnitude of humankind’s power and vision. When you’re inside, you feel as though the rest of the world doesn’t exist.
~Jonathan Anderson (UK)

California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made California what it is were willing to take risks, think outside convention and build.
~Nicolas Berggruen

I was so happy that it filmed in New York not only because it’s an amazing city, but also because a lot of people across the world somehow started to think about New York as a dangerous place to be and envisioned it as some war zone after that happened.
~Alicia Witt

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It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
~H L Mencken

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.
~Thomas Sowell

I’m consumed with tech ‒ medical, computational, impossible tech. So, I don’t know exactly what I’ll wind up doing, where I’ll go with all this schooling, but I’m willing that it be better than my dogmatic vision of it all.
~Justine Bateman

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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It’s not what the vision is, it’s what the vision does.
~Peter Senge

What you believe writes your rules. What you do creates results. How you filter life will serve your vision, or whittle you down to a one page biography.
~author unknown

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People that complete other people’s vision are understated.
~Bjork

The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.
~Khalil Gibran

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A vision is like an oasis in a desert. You can’t have it all the time, as you need to keep on continuing your journey through the desert of life experiences… I am not so concerned about waiting for a vision to appear because I know it will come to me when I least expect it… I still do have visions that inspire my work.
~Akiane Kramarik

My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue,
an everlasting vision of the ever changing view.
~Carole King

I have a flood of ideas in my mind. I just follow my vision.
~Yayoi Kusama

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My peripheral vision has been severely limited because of my diabetes, which means I can see just fine looking straight ahead. But if I am at a function with lots of people, I am constantly bumping into people ‒ even kicking them!
~Mary Tyler Moore

I was walking around legally blind. Now I have 20-20 vision. I can’t believe I spent so many years blurry, but I think that coincides with how I was feeling. Now I notice if people are watching me, but I also smile right back if someone waves, which helps.
~Nicole Kidman

You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision.
~Veronica Lake

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Trauma fractures comprehension as a pebble shatters a windshield. The wound at the site of impact spreads across the field of vision, obscuring reality and challenging belief.
~Jane Leavy

In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne

An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one’s experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.
~Sholem Asch

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Don’t walk through life just playing football. Don’t walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone’s life, that’s the ultimate vision, that’s the ultimate goal ‒ bottom line.
~Ray Lewis

A mentor is someone with a willingness to help others, who has a capacity to inspire, a determination to work hard, a clear sense of vision, an inspiring purpose, a deep sense of integrity and an appreciation for joy.
~Kerry Kennedy

Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.
~A P J Abdul Kalam

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I give Bill Gates an A for vision because, as a business person and a strategist, he’s brilliant. His flaw is that his view is not informed by a humanistic or compassionate vision of how to make computers work for people.
~Mitch Kapor

We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves by severe self scrutiny, then in our neighbours by compassionate indulgence, and, finally, in its essential nature by that direct vision which belongs to the pure in heart.
~Saint Bernard

Love and compassion don’t at all have to make us weak, or lead us to losing discernment and vision. We just have to learn how to find them. And see, in truth, what they bring us.
~Sharon Salzberg

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The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
~James Allen

The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land.
~Emma Goldman

Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.
~Thomas Merton

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Posted From The Grove

The American ‘unum’ has been lost since the Sixties. If this continues, there will soon be no unifying American identity and vision to balance the ‘pluribus,’ and the days of the Republic will be numbered.
~Os Guinness

I think it is fair to say that during World War II there was a high sense of purpose. The country had a very clear vision of its own standing, of its own morality. It was not an ambiguous time. Today, we live in a world that is highly ambiguous, very fractured, with many of the historical, traditional values in a state of collapse, really.
~Friedrich St Florian

America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?
~Azar Nafisi

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.
~Henry Kissinger

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn’t come alive until the leader models it.
~John C Maxwell

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.
~John C Maxwell

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I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in.
~Eliot Spitzer

I share the opinion of those of broader vision, who see in the signs of the time hope of humanity for peace.
~Frank B Kellogg (Kellog-Briand Pact)

It will take some time before a politician will capture the imagination of the American people and have the vision and understanding to do what is necessary for a better future for the people of America and the world.
~David Korten

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It did not occur to us that the Marxists’ solution was fraudulent or that their vision was distorted, that whatever the wrongs in our society it was not the ideology of theirs that will cure them.
~Barbara Amiel (journalist)

With his trademark courage and conviction, President Reagan led us out of the Cold War, spreading his vision of freedom, resulting in the release of millions of people from the yoke of communism.
~John Doolittle

Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country’s never been the same since.
~W Averell Harriman

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I know that millions of Americans from all walks of life agree with me that leadership does not mean putting the ear to the ground to follow public opinion, but to have the vision of what is necessary and the courage to make it possible.
~Shirley Chisholm

Governments follow their people. A great deal has to do with the vision of the leadership of governments. They have a vision, and they translate that to their people and to their counterparts in other countries. You can fulfill and achieve a great deal if you get along well as individuals, as people, as persons.
~Salman Khurshid

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.
~John P Kotter

Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.
~Seth Berkley

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To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the people to see.
~Black Elk

The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream.
~Azar Nafisi

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Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
~Jimmy Carter

At the turn of the last century, extremists were forced back to the political fringes while younger politicians resurrected the vitality of the original Republican vision. They recognized that the nation could only develop and grow by protecting equality of opportunity for hardworking Americans at the bottom of the economic ladder.
~Heather Cox Richardson

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
~Adlai Stevenson

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Universal basic income is not a solution in search of a problem ‒ it is the obvious solution that has been in front of us for years. It only requires us to have the vision, empathy and courage to adopt it for the American people before it is too late.
~Andrew Yang

I am a socialist; of course I am a socialist. To hold a vision that society can be fundamentally different, to believe that all people can be equal ‒ that is not a new idea.
~Bernie Sanders

This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.
~Henry A Wallace (VP under FDR)

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Life is full of joys and sorrows, much of it our own making. Sadly, the West has voted time and time again for bigger government, more inflation, higher taxes and excessive regulation ‒ all policies that have kept us from Adam Smith’s vision of an opulent society.
~Mark Skousen

As Americans, we don’t see the role of government as guaranteeing outcomes, but allowing free men and women to flourish based on their own vision, their hard work and their personal responsibility.
~Rick Perry

That’s what we do in this country. That’s the American Dream. That’s freedom, and I’ll take it any day over the supervision and sanctimony of the central planners.
~Paul Ryan

The leftist vision of politics as a matter of rights begets an attitude of grievance and entitlement.
~Michael J Knowles

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.
~Thomas Sowell

I guess the news is this: If you’re a Republican and you smile, liberals don’t like it. Maybe that’s because Democrats are afraid that I’ve been able to show an optimistic vision for this country.
~Cory Gardner

Simple language, simple ideas and a positive vision for the future ‒ this holy trinity holds the key to unlocking the next generation.
~Kemi Badenoch

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Vision is perhaps our greatest strength… it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.
~Li Ka-shing

When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.
~Charles R Swindoll

America’s greatest strength has always been its hopeful vision of human progress.
~John McCain

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I envision a future where there’ll be 300 million reporters, where anyone from anywhere can report for any reason. It’s freedom of participation absolutely realized.
~Matt Drudge

Changing the word report to lie in the above statement would certainly make the nation’s current blue mood and confusion more interesting.
~Ed Note

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We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration.
~Josefa Iloilo (Fijian president)

The problem with a lot of Chinese is that they put up divisions between Taiwanese, Hong Kong natives, mainlanders. We are never united. I really hope that the Chinese can be more united.
~Martin Yan

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I had a vision ‒ and I saw white spirits and black spirits engaged in battle, and the sun was darkened ‒ the thunder rolled in the Heavens, and blood flowed in streams ‒ and I heard a voice saying, ‘Such is your luck, such are you called to see, and let it come rough or smooth, you must surely bear it.’
~Nat Turner

We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
~Oliver Tambo

No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.
~Joe Slovo

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The history of the African American community is one of enduring, relentless struggle with a vision of accepting nothing less than full social and economic equality.
~Danny K Davis

We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.
~Barbara Jordan

Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence, and a belief in our right and our responsiblity to be equal members of society.
~Janet Jackson

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
~Gail Devers

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
~Thucydides

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You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
~James Lane Allen

I’ve learned that fear limits you and your vision. It serves as blinders to what may be just a few steps down the road for you. The journey is valuable, but believing in your talents, your abilities, and your self-worth can empower you to walk down an even brighter path.
~Soledad O’Brien

When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid.
~Audre Lorde

When you learn to keep fighting in the face of potential failure, it gives you a larger skill set to do what you want to do in life. It gives you vision. But you can’t acquire it if you’re afraid of keeping score.
~Pat Summitt

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
~Florence Scovel Shinn

Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change ‒ this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
~Bruce Barton

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All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.
~Earl Warren

I don’t think we should stop emphasizing race because I think, you know, race is still very, very important, and we have to recognize that and continue to introduce programs to address racial inequities. But we have to widen our vision and also address the growing problems of economic class.
~William Julius Wilson

My story is a freedom song from within my soul. It is a guide to discovery, a vision of how even the worst pain and heartaches can be channeled into human monuments, impenetrable and everlasting.
~Coretta Scott King

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Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.
~Milton Friedman

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face ‒ forever.
~George Orwell

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Monsters just outside our peripheral vision are scarier to contemplate than monsters miles away or in someplace only a fool would set foot in.
~Andrew Pyper

It’s not only imagination, it’s the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.
~Olivier Martinez

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The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts – even widely known ones – that were outside their limited field of vision.
~Barry Commoner

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The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.
~Marian Wright Edelman

The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there are numerous archaic provisions that inhibit constructive change and adaptation. These constitutional bits affect the daily life of the republic and every citizen in it.
~Larry J Sabato

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.
~Alexander Hamilton

In a system of precedent, the new majority bears the weight of explaining why the constitutional vision of their predecessors was flawed and of making the case as to why theirs better captures the meaning of our fundamental law.
~Amy Coney Barrett

An unlimited America was the vision for the nation set forth by our Founding Fathers. It is the vision enshrined in those two great charters of freedom: our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. Many of America’s most intractable problems stem from the fact that we have strayed from that vision ‒ and lost direction.
~Sam Brownback

Directions are instructions given to explain how. Direction is a vision offered to explain why.
~Simon Sinek

The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule.
~James Bovard

If we can return to a government that the Founders, in their wisdom, envisioned for us, we can return to a government that will allow our economy to thrive again, and our people to live in liberty.
~Nan Hayworth

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I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
~James Madison

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Romney is right that the Obama vision is too centered on government. But his is too centered on the promotion of business and wealth creation at the expense of everything else.
~John Podhoretz

The country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision.
~Mitt Romney

America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal ‒ to discover and maintain liberty among men.
~Woodrow Wilson

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
~James Madison

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On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we’re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.
~Barack Obama

Where there is no vision the people perish.
~Proverbs 29:18

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Most of the provisions designed to fix what ails our health system don’t kick in until 2014, which, one wishes administration officials had noticed, is two years after he has to win an election.
~Eric Alterman

The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I’m at a loss to explain my delusion that there exist any real links between that past and a future worthy of it.
~Hart Crane

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I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.
~Black Elk

Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
~Muhammad Iqbal

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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
~John Adams

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
~Alexander Pope

We are all one – or at least we should be – and it is our job, our duty, and our great challenge to fight the voices of division and seek the salve of reconciliation.
~Roy Barnes

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Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.
~Ludwig von Mises

One of the gaps in our international development efforts is the provision of global public goods – that is, goods or conditions we need that no individual or country can secure on their own, such as halting global warming, financial stability and peace and security.
~Anna Lindh

Thence results, for science as well as for industry, the necessity of the division and association of labor. I receive and I give – such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn.
~Mikhail Bakunin

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Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.
~Patrick J Kennedy

Terrorists continue to exploit divisions between law enforcement and the intelligence communities that limit the sharing of vital counterterrorism information.
~Jim Sensenbrenner

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The ancient Jewish people gave the world the vision of eternal peace, of universal disarmament, of abolishing the teaching and learning of war.
~Menachem Begin

For me to propose a division of Jerusalem was really terrible. I did it because I reached a conclusion that without which there will not be peace.
~Ehud Olmert

A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months’ experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time – patience.
~Stanley Baldwin

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The biggest danger for any organism is to not identify that it’s being threatened. I want to hope that people realize that the source of danger and risk in the Middle East is not the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but the deep radical Islamic vision of forming a global caliphate.
~Naftali Bennett

Everyone knew that Saleh and the Houthis were a marriage of convenience. He was a dictator; the Houthis are ideologues who want to impose their fundamentalist vision. Neither cared for the core values of the Arab Spring ‒ representative, accountable governance.
~Jamal Khashoggi (assassinated)

The victory of Hamas is not only based on the corruption of the Palestinian Authority. Hamas has a vision and a program, and this is the reason why the Palestinian people chose Hamas. However, there is no doubt that the corruption helped Hamas’s victory.
~Ismail Haniyeh

When people don’t have a hopeful vision before them or the possible resolution of their difficulties by peaceful means, then they can be attracted to violence and to separatism.
~Condoleezza Rice

As for the long-term future: I am prepared to see in this a vision, not a mystical way but in a realistic way, of a population exchange on a much more important scale and including larger territories.
~Moshe Sharett (PM Israel, ’54-’55)

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I think that economic patriotism is the very foundation of a European vision.
~Dominique de Villepin (France)

My vision is that our country should be integrated in the EU, to transfer a part of our independence there. It is also our duty to do it, if we want to establish trade and a sound economy. This is the vision that I am working on and I will continue to work in the future.
~Ibrahim Rugova (Kosovo)

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I have a vision of India: an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want.
~Atal Bihari Vajpayee

My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
~A P J Abdul Kalam

Our vision and commitment is towards the country’s progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.
~Narendra Modi

One needs a Seer’s Vision and an Angel’s voice to be of any avail. I do not know of any Indian man or woman today who has those gifts in their most complete measure.
~Sarojini Naidu

Elections in India are not contests between personalities. They are ultimately battles involving political parties; promises and pledges that political parties make; the vision and programmes that political parties bring to the table. So although, Modi’s style is ‘I, me, myself,’ I don’t think 2014 elections as a Modi versus Rahul contest.
~Jairam Ramesh

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When I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.
~A P J Abdul Kalam

I had a clear vision: if I take up an assignment, I’ll do full justice to it; otherwise I’ll walk away.
~Kiran Bedi

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In the 1960s, I personally lived the resounding impact of President Nasser’s vision of constructing Aswan’s High Dam as a ‘national project’ for controlling the Nile irrigation and the production of electricity.
Ahmed Zewail

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My father’s values and vision of this country obviously form everything I have as values and ideals. But this is not the ghost of my father running for the leadership of the Liberal party. This is me.
~Justin Trudeau

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Politicians who lack the vision to lead the community on big issues like public transport often hide their inaction by blaming other levels of government when anyone complains.
~Anthony Albanese

More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
~Barbara Jordan

Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for ‒ because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.
~Peter Marshall

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European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The experience changed the way people referred to the glamour of battle; they treated it no longer as a positive quality but as a dangerous illusion.
~Virginia Postrel

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The fallback position in politics is if you don’t know what you want to be about, and if you don’t know what your vision is, go at somebody else.
~Karl Rove

If you’re not out front defining your vision, your opponent will spend gobs of money to define it for you.
~Donna Brazile

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.
~Theodore Hesburgh

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Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.
~Paul Wellstone

The statesman’s duty is to bridge the gap between his nation’s experience and his vision.
~Henry Kissinger

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If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don’t try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now.
~Richard Perle (Asst Sec Defense, Global Strategic Affairs under Reagan)

What is our vision on this earth ‒ war to the end of all generations and life by the sword?
~Moshe Sharett

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In order to lead a country or a company, you’ve got to get everybody on the same page and you’ve got to be able to have a vision of where you’re going. America can’t have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations ‒ can’t have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It’s got to have a vision.
~Jack Welch

In my view, a political vision is not a grab-bag of discrete problems and solutions. It is the visionary anticipation of a direction.
~Roberto Unger

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The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one’s people that has not previously been taken into account.
~Alice Walker

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Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
~Japanese Proverb

Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction.
~Daisaku Ikeda

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~Instagram: a new word find
The example: a vision captured, a look in the mirror for some. You will know yourself on the instant and you will laugh. Not for the censorious
https://www.instagram.com/p/C3Bk4UesYKp/?igsh=NjZkMnV2Y2p3aG0w

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~Kirsten Murrray: Vision (2:31) story emerging slowly

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~1091 Pictures: Vision (1:50) mastering air on two wheels

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~shamis: Max Ehrman’s • Desiderata (2:52) not as an oration, but a modern-scripture reading

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All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
~Brian Tracy

I try to get a vision of the future, and then I try to figure out where the discontinuities are.
~Nolan Bushnell

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When a plan or strategy fails, people are tempted to assume it was the wrong vision. Plans and strategies can always be changed and improved. But vision doesn’t change. Visions are simply refined with time.
~Andy Stanley

Anything can be changed. Anything can be fixed. Things that are broken can be fixed. And you don’t have to be some billionaire or millionaire to do it. You just have to be a person with a vision and the passion to do it, and be willing to fight for it every day.
~Dana White

Famous pivot stories are often failures but you don’t need to fail before you pivot. All a pivot is is a change is strategy without a change in vision. Whenever entrepreneurs see a new way to achieve their vision ‒ a way to be more successful ‒ they have to remain nimble enough to take it.
~Eric Ries

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A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.
~Charles M Schwab

Strategic planning is worthless ‒ unless there is first a strategic vision.
~John Naisbitt

Clarity of vision is the key to achieving your objectives.
~Tom Steyer

Capital isn’t scarce; vision is.
~Sam Walton

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All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose…
A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.
~Brian Tracy

When you found a company, you have the original vision, you make all the original decisions, you know every employee, you kind of know every aspect of the product architecture and its limitations.
~Ben Horowitz

Every product you have ever loved was a compromise from the ideal vision of its creators to the realities of shipping on time, on budget, and on price point. Anyone who has ever manufactured a physical product that had to be on the shelves for Christmas shopping knows how painful these choices can be.
~Jay Samit

You’ve got to eat while you dream. You’ve got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.
~Jack Welch

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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I’d certainly answer their questions, but I’m not involved in the site visits or anything else.
~Jack Nicklaus

It’s all about who’s where on the food chain. When I’m the story editor, I expect my writers to follow my vision. When I’m working for another editor, I’m obliged to follow their vision.
~Len Wein

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Handloom is a legacy, a craft which involves close to four million weavers in the country. They have to decide how they would like to position their wares in the domestic and global markets. We in the government will support their vision to the best of our abilities.
~Smriti Irani

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A mission statement is not something you write overnight… But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.
~Stephen Covey

My vision is to build an e-commerce ecosystem that allows consumers and businesses to do all aspects of business online.
~Jack Ma

I have a vision that’s about technology that empowers consumers over institutions.
~Michael K Powell

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My dream was to set up my own e-commerce company. In 1999, I gathered 18 people in my apartment and spoke to them for two hours about my vision. Everyone put their money on the table, and that got us $60,000 to start Alibaba. I wanted to have a global company, so I chose a global name.
~Jack Ma

As long as you can bootstrap, not at the sacrifice of competitive advantage, bootstrapping is a really powerful thing because it allows you to be totally devoted to your vision.
~Nick Woodman

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You know how people always talk about how vision is the key to entrepreneurship and perseverance and really seeing what other people don’t see? We can actually redeem a fair amount of that folk wisdom.
~Eric Ries

If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
~Jack Canfield

It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.
~Les Brown

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Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
~Warren Bennis

You’ve got to have a vision. You’ve got to have a message.
~Scott Walker

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
~Jack Welch

The amount of negativity I hear on a daily basis is unbelievable. But that’s the kind of stuff you have to tune out, focus, stick with your vision and keep plugging every day.
~Dana White

The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.
~Mark Zuckerberg

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Everybody don’t see your vision, they don’t get where you’re going. You’ve got to force it on them, make them believe in you and just keep doing you, because you’re the only one that can see where you want to go.
~Moneybagg Yo

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.
~Neil Gaiman

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Transforming a brand into a socially responsible leader doesn’t happen overnight by simply writing new marketing and advertising strategies. It takes effort to identify a vision that your customers will find credible and aligned with their values.
~Simon Mainwaring

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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.
~Bruce Barton

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If we are going to be able to create a new economic vision, companies will need to rethink every aspect of their operations; their bottom lines, ownership structures, demands on financial returns, how they raise capital. For example, an ethical company would say it should only take a fair share of the planet’s resources and campaign on this.
~Tim Jackson

The vision is to figure out how there can really be dynamic entrepreneurialism in space.
~Jeff Bezos

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The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps ‒ we must step up the stairs.
~Vance Havner

Vision without execution is hallucination.
~Thomas Edison

Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
~Warren Bennis

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
~Joel A Barker

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When I first discovered in the early 1980s the Italian espresso bars in my trip to Italy, the vision was to re-create that for America ‒ a third place that had not existed before. Starbucks re-created that in America in our own image; a place to go other than home or work. We also created an industry that did not exist: specialty coffee.
~Howard Schultz

I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It’s seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It’s seeing what other people don’t see And pursuing that vision.
~Howard Schultz

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Clarity is the most important thing. I can compare clarity to pruning in gardening… You have to be clear. Then you have to be confident about your vision. And after that, you just have to put a lot of work in.
~Diane von Furstenberg

It takes work to show up for your own story and show up for the dream and vision you have for yourself.
~Kerry Washington

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If you don’t have that vision for the end goal, you have no clue where you’re going, and you’re going to work very hard to go nowhere.
~J J Watt

Focus on your product. A lot of people focus on the name of their brand or the legal aspects, but it’s more important to create your product. It’s why people join. It’s your vision. Without your product, nothing is going to happen.
~Payal Kadakia

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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
~Jack Welch

The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it.
~Kalpana Chawla

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One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader’s need to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on sticking to the vision and stay on course to the destination. But he must be open-minded during the process.
~Simon Sinek

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.
~John C Maxwell

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Some people are really good at the visionary role. They’re like third grade teachers who tell people the vision and values over and over and over until they get it right, right, right. But they’re not implementers. If they’re good leaders, they gather people around them who can take the implementation role and move it forward.
~Ken Blanchard

True leadership isn’t about having an idea. It’s about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.
~Leila Janah

If you want to have the best employees, there really needs to be a vision and a mission. Talent looks for a mission. And if you have the best talent, that’s the single biggest competitive advantage any company can have.
~Dan Schulman

Leadership is having a compelling vision, a comprehensive plan, relentless implementation, and talented people working together.
~Alan Mulally

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
~Warren Bennis

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Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.
~Russel Honore

A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here’s where we are going to go, here’s why we need to go there, and here’s how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.
~Mike Huckabee

Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
~Tom Peters

I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is a lot of craft ‒ meaning experience ‒ there is a certain amount of craft meaning insight, creativity and vision, and there is the use of science, technique or analysis.
~Henry Mintzberg

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Nobody sees reality whole; we all need others to show us the parts of it that they see better than we do. Nobody sees reality with total accuracy; we all need others to correct our own vision.
~Lewis B Smedes

The lessons I learned from the dark days at Alibaba are that you’ve got to make your team have value, innovation, and vision. Also, if you don’t give up, you still have a chance. And, when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength.
~Jack Ma

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Collaboration is a key part of the success of any organization, executed through a clearly defined vision and mission and based on transparency and constant communication.
~Dinesh Paliwal

To keep everyone invested in your vision, you have to back up a little bit and really analyze who the different stakeholders are and what they individually respond to.
~Alan Stern

You need to set near-term milestones. Put the assumptions down on paper, and make it to your vision or ultimate product. Your team has to understand where they’re going. Your partners need to understand where they’re going.
~Tony Fadell

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Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.
~John C Maxwell

Showing leadership doesn’t mean every employee will run the organization; that would lead to chaos. Businesses do need someone to set the vision and then lead the team to it.
~Robin S Sharma

I think it’s really important to have a vision of teamwork, team play, and unselfishness.
~Chris Mullin

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It’s very important to take risks. I think that research is very important, but in the end you have to work from your instinct and feeling and take those risks and be fearless. When I hear a company is being run by a team, my heart sinks, because you need to have that leader with a vision and heart that can move things forward.
~Anna Wintour

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.
~Arthur M Schlesinger, Jr

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
~Carl Jung

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The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.
~Mia Hamm

Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them ‒ a desire, a dream, a vision.
~Muhammad Ali

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Van Gaal has a good vision of football, but it is not mine. He wants to gel winning teams and has a militaristic way of working with his tactics. I want individuals to think for themselves.
~Johan Cruyff

It’s important to be a soccer player in the sense of the whole vision ‒ if you put me at forward, I can do it, or if you put me in midfield, I can do it.
~Julie Ertz

Football [soccer], like no other sport, creates a sense of unity, equality, and inclusion. All of these are at the heart of my vision for a changing Gabon.
~Ali Bongo Ondimba

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Too many athletes are living in a tiny window. They have no vision for themselves – what they can be outside of football and what they can mean to a community. They just don’t know any better. My hopes and dreams are unlimited.
~Junior Seau

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I think the automation of vision is a much bigger deal than the invention of perspective.
~Trevor Paglen (artist/geographer)

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Kubrick’s vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke’s is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution.
~Marvin Minsky

STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.
~George Takei

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Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you’ve gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.
~Mel Brooks

A producer is supposed to generate an idea for a movie. And then they’re supposed to create the team, the group of people that are gonna make this movie. And within that team, the producer has to have a creative vision and a fiscal vision, and they have to adhere to both things.
~Brian Grazer

A producer gets the whole vision done from top to bottom, to making the record to having the record delivered to the world. That’s a producer.
~DJ Khaled

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You need to know what makes artists tick. Having been through the process myself as a musician, since I was an early teen, gave me an advantage ‒ understanding them from their point of view, because it’s about them, it’s not about you ‒ it’s their vision and what they’re capable of achieving, and you’re the conduit.
~Tommy Mottola

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I have always been up for risks, but only because I had full confidence and faith in the vision of my directors.
~Abhay Deol

A director is the captain of the ship; he gets the vision of the film much before anyone else can. While I want to experiment with characters, I know a good director means I am in safe hands.
~Koel Mallick

A film is a director’s vision… there is, however, much input an actor or actress can have.
~Natasha Richardson

Sometimes, when you’re on the streets, certain music inspires you, and then you have a vision. But, at the end of the day, it’s a synthesis of visions, so you have to think, as a director, of a scene, or how to deliver a line, or how do this visually.
~Wong Kar-wai

So yeah, a good director will be able to listen and hear everything, but have a confident vision of his own that he can say, ‘oh yeah ‒ that’s a great point.’ And you never know; often you can help far more than you think you can, because there’s so much more that he’s juggling than an actor.
~Christian Bale

The cinematographer’s basically translating the director’s vision into imagery.
~Rachel Morrison

I’ve always been in awe of filmmakers and their patience in realizing their vision because I could never do that.
~Mike Patton

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There’s been a slow death in a way. On the positive side, there are films getting into the Academy Awards that wouldn’t have, but on the negative side, financiers are now dominant and making all the decisions. I can’t count the ways a director’s vision is compromised.
~Lili Taylor

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
~Isaac Bashevis Singer

The downfall of the industry seems to actually be good for art. I think the industry will find their way once the focus shifts from its greed-based origins, downsizes, and begins to support creative visions that speak to our times and shifting ideals.
~Saul Williams

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I’m very much of the opinion that theatre is a collective art form, not just one person’s vision.
~Marianne Elliott

Movies are the work of a collective conscious. It takes 500-800 people on a movie to complete a vision.
~Sylvester Stallone

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My eye? It’s a genetic thing. My dad had it, and now I have it. You know, I just found out that it may be correctable a little bit, because it does impair my vision. When I look up, I lose sight in this eye. I think, maybe for other people, it informs the way they see me.
~Forest Whitaker

Being Latino and being an actor has been a unique struggle and opportunity. When you don’t fit into what may be a more stereotypical vision of somebody whose name is Pedro is, it can be a little bit harder to navigate.
~Pedro Pascal

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I really didn’t want to expand the negative vision of clowns because clowns are not intrinsically scary.
~Andy Muschietti

You could make a film out of just about anything so long as there is a clear vision about the story.
~Duncan Jones

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Makeup is an extraordinary tool that allows me to share my inspirations, my fantasies, and my vision with the world.
~Pat McGrath

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I combine magic and science to create illusions. I work with new media and interactive technologies, things like artificial intelligence or computer vision, and integrate them in my magic.
~Marco Tempest

The Classic games were Classic because, like classical music or architecture, they strove to give life and weight to ideals of order and proportion, to provide a vision of timelessness. In ‘Double Dragon,’ we can see the cracks in the brick, the mold growing on the drainage pipes, the unmistakable deterioration of the world we live in.
~D B Weiss

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I want to make movies like ‘The Upside of Anger,’ ‘Maria Full of Grace,’ old-school films like ‘Some Kind of Wonderful‘ or ‘Vision Quest‘: movies you remember songs and lines from.
~Reggie Miller

When I first envisioned ‘Funny Games’ in the mid-1990s, it was my intention to have an American audience watch the movie. It is a reaction to a certain American cinema, its violence, its naivety, the way American cinema toys with human beings. In many American films, violence is made consumable.
~Michael Haneke

Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There’s huge, visionary poetry in it.
~Simon Callow

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People get this very romantic vision of a fashion designer who in one night makes 25 sketches and in the morning throws them on the table and there are a lot of women in white aprons with the pins on the lapel and they start to grab the sketches and… It’s not like that.
~Dries van Noten

My vision is the ability to design clothes for a man who wants to create his own style and doesn’t want to dress like he’s in uniform, to look like the guy in the ad, or to feel like he has to put it together that way.
~John Varvatos

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I loved everything about my wedding look, but, in retrospect, I would have changed the position of where we attached the veil on my head. Make sure you test a few different placements and styles before the big day to make a clear vision and plan with your hairstylist.
~Margherita Missoni

Everyone has a warped vision of Hollywood and what success in Hollywood is like.
~Zach Braff

It’s difficult for me to meet women because my crowd is much older. I know that for some of the young women I do meet, a relationship with me can be envisioned as a benefit to their career.
~Michael Douglas

I’m actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s.
~Dylan Moran (Irish, comedian)

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I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I’m consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death.
~Courtney Love

Everything I’ve been thinking, every vision, even down to every shot I throw, it just ends up here in reality. Whether it was in a fight and how to react or whether it was in a stadium with screaming fans or whether I was in a fancy car or the best clothes ever, I always put myself somewhere.
~Conor McGregor

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
~George Eliot

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~Miyu Distribution: Hold Me Tight by LeoLuna Robert-Tourneur (6:29) post-Valentines, modern-animal love (animated)

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~Jamie Hooper: Vision (8:46) horror

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Omeleto: The Narrow World (14:54) an alien visit, yes, but why?

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~crafting pictures: Hidden (6:08) not quite spooky

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It takes vision and courage to create ‒ it takes faith and courage to prove.
~Owen D Young

Our vision is to rediscover the spirit of the Renaissance, create a new discipline where engineering for cultural heritage is actually a symbol of blending art and science together.
~Maurizio Seracini

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I used to just think about what my fans wanted all the time. But it just started feeling weird to me. I want to just show everyone who I am and stick to my vision. I have to trust myself.
~Mac Miller

I think every artist should follow their vision; their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for. That said though, I think also artists have, continuously good artists, have been good for their times.
~Serj Tankian

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
~John F Kennedy

Hold the vision, trust the process.
~author unknown

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‘Camp’ is a vision of the world in terms of style ‒ but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.
~Susan Sontag

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
~Salvador Dali

Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.
~Octavio Paz

‘Impressionism’ was the name given to a certain form of observation when Monet, not content with using his eyes to see what things were or what they looked like as everybody had done before him, turned his attention to noting what took place on his own retina (as an oculist would test his own vision).
~John Singer Sargent

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I knew what book we had to write, it was clear in my head; it was journals and poetry. So I passed on their offer. I told my agent this is our vision, and no one’s done it this way.
~Kenny Loggins

I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It’s kind of a fine line.
~Daniel Clowes (graphic novelist, etc)

In the beginning, we had a great deal of freedom, and Jerry [Siegel] wrote completely out of his imagination – very, very freely. We even had no editorial supervision to speak of, because they were in such a rush to get the thing in before deadline. But later on we were restricted.
~Joe Shuster (artist creating Superman)

I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
~Bill Griffith

But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.
~Donna Tartt

Without vision you don’t see, and without practicality the bills don’t get paid.
~Paul Engle

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Simultaneity in light is harmony, the rhythm of colors which creates the Vision of Man.
~Robert Delaunay

Color is just in a small area of our vision, and the rest we add with the mind.
~James Turrell

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To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.
~Giorgio de Chirico

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The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People who paint, it’s an honorable thing to spend all day and all night in front of your canvas ‒ that is the romantic vision of the painter.
~Nick Cave

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To write a novel is to embark on a quest that is very romantic. People have visions, and the next step is to execute them. That’s a very romantic project. Like Edvard Munch’s strange dreamlike canvases where people are stylized, like ‘The Scream.’ Munch must have had that vision in a dream, he never saw it.
~Joyce Carol Oates

All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.
~Otto Dix

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.
~Edward Hopper

Vision is the true creative rhythm.
~Robert Delaunay

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You don’t have to compose a masterpiece every time, but I think the challenge of art is always searching for something different, searching for a new sensitivity, a new perspective, a new vision.
~Ludovico Einaudi

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
~Edith Wharton

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When I first made a grid, I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees, and then a grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, ‘This is my vision.’
~Agnes Martin

Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.
~Georges Seurat

The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it.
~Max Bill

I want to be as creative as I want. I don’t ever want to have to compromise; I don’t ever want anybody ever to tell me what to do, I don’t ever want to argue with somebody because of my vision.
~Damon Dash

To me, crazy is not someone who has a creative vision and will fight for it.
~Amy Sherman-Palladino

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Good conductors know when to let an orchestra lead itself. Ninety percent of what a conductor does comes in the rehearsal ‒ the vision, the structure, the architecture.
~Joshua Bell

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
~Martha Graham

I’m still dancing ‒ my mum owns a dance company ‒ but I felt like there was more freedom in the music industry. You can take your vision and really bring it to life no matter what, because it’s just you.
~Tate McRae

When I discovered minimal music I felt I could create my vision ‒ it
~Joe Hisaishi

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I don’t like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time, when I’m recording to two-inch tape, I still have a romantic vision of how songs sounded coming out of the radio when I was younger, and how they sounded coming out of my little four-track cassette player.
~M Ward

I put out tapes, but I always kept saying, ‘Why am I putting all this energy into these tapes?’ I was like, ‘I’d rather make just an album because I have a vision; I know how I want to do my records.’
~DJ Khaled

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I went to art school, and I studied drawing and video art, and I’ve always approached music so visually as a result that I found it really difficult in the past to kind of hand off music to another director, ’cause it just ends up being this kind of mid-zone where it’s nobody’s vision, really.
~Caroline Polachek

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For the longest time, I didn’t even want to admit I was serious about music. Before the Shins, I would tell myself, ‘Oh, I’m going to figure something out someday.’ I had this romantic vision of being this old dude maybe making guitars or something.
~James Mercer

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I have an idea of who I want to be, I have a vision of my own success.
~Wiz Khalifa

What I had to prove was that I had a dedication and a desire and a passion to do the work and everything else would fall in place because I have a vision that I want to portray and it did and I do it. I don’t sell anything.
~Kim Weston (Motown)

‘Long Black Train‘ was inspired by a vision that I had of a long, black train running down this track way out in the middle of nowhere. I could see people standing out to the sides of this track watching this train go by. As I was walking, experiencing this vision, I kept asking myself, ‘What does this vision mean and what is this train?’
~Josh Turner

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In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there’s available… in America right now.
~Merle Haggard

The aspect of kind of living in your imagination and creating a more romantic vision of the world than the reality that you’re given ‒ that’s definitely something I can sort of relate to.
~Alden Ehrenreich

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Photography is the easiest medium with which to be merely competent. Almost anybody can be competent. It’s the hardest medium in which to have some sort of personal vision and to have a signature style.
~Chuck Close

Photography has always been a major part of my vision: my excuse for meddling with what the world looks like.
~Robert Rauschenberg

I have a vision of life, and I try to find equivalents for it in the form of photographs.
~Alfred Stieglitz

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I have experienced some amazing food! Yet when I think about the most luxurious and exquisite meals I have had, visions of simple food made from a few natural ingredients are what most excite me.
~Mark Hyman

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If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.
~George Eliot

Things are beautiful or ugly only in time and space. The new man’s vision being liberated from these two factors, all is unified in one unique beauty.
~Piet Mondrian

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.
~Thomas Mann

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It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.
~Luis Barragan

What makes architecture extraordinary is that you’re looking at the building, but your peripheral vision is also seeing how it fits within a space. And it’s seeing more than one part of the building at one time.
~Sydney Pollack

I’m often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That’s impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.
~Thom Mayne

You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it’s best.
~Ben Nicholson

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~Lorenz Hart: WHERE OR WHEN

~Dion and The Belmonts (2:37) eyes closed, cryptic vision of love, yes… ah, but the harmonies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUwBfwtvssw

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~fschnell: Rodgers & Hart (3:37) from the early movie, w/ added revelatory lyrics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIYn4FLwubo

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~Fine Music 1000: Barbara Streisand (3:04) Barbara incarnating as Cleo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yHVpyz0UXI

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~Julie London (2:38) a lost voice and slow guitar for the song’s loneliest rendering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeOo_TIysJc

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~NomadicVoice: Bob Dylan • Visions Of Johanna (3:58) images to flesh out the lyrics

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~Jimmy Cliff: I Can See Clearly Now (3:52) accompanied by movie storyline capsule, cheerful

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~London Records: Hothouse Flowers • I Can See… (3:19) bluesy start turns rock’n soon enough

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~TopPop: David Bowie • Sound And Vision (3:00) while video of impossibly young Bowie plays

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~Cliff Richard & The Shadows: Visions (3:31) glowing delivery of the romantic question, when (again)

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~Vilchis Aguilar Ayrto…: Maroon 5 • Visions (3:55) love ‒ playing with fire

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~Queen: One Vision (4:20) energetic studio performance

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~Mariah Carey: Vision Of Love (3:29) singing while serving as song’s poster image

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~Anh Nguyen: Sufjan Stevens • Visions of Gideon (4:42) short on music, long on emotion

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~cozyhollow: Supertramp • Child Of Vision (7:24) architectural travelogue turns mystery adventure, hits the rails, then the skids

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As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
~Helen Keller

A ring means a commitment. But more than that, it means that you’ve talked about your shared future and have decided together on a shared vision of it.
~Patti Stanger

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Essentially, I spent most of my childhood with my mother and my older sister, and I suppose I had rather a romantic vision of how things might be if there were men around; I saw myself in a country house with six children and a garden. That has never been achieved ‒ and I still regret it.
~Claire Tomalin (journalist/biographer, 5 children)

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I always envisioned myself having a traditional and elegant wedding.
~Ivanka Trump

I think in a way, you’re doomed, once you can envision something. You’re sort of doomed to make it happen. I’ve found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that’s usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart.
~Chuck Palahniuk

Time turns the old days to derision,
Our loves into corpses or wives;
And marriage and death and division
Make barren our lives.
~Algernon Charles Swinburne

‘The Haunted Man‘ is about communication barriers between men and women, and in that song it’s a woman’s wait for her husband to come back from war. The vision for me was of a group of men and women on the opposite sides of two cliffs, trying to move or sing to each other and communicate, but they’re kind of misfiring.
~Bat for Lashes

You may invite the entire 35th Division to your wedding if you want to. I guess it’s going to be yours as well as mine. We might as well have the church full while we are at it.
~Bess Truman

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When I go back to the core of my childhood, my cousin Lucy seems always to be in the peripheral vision of my memories. She is off to one side, always off to one side, with a book, with a scheme or a project or an enterprise.
~Martin Amis

My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.
~Simon Callow (actor)

My mom and I had the same vision, and we want the same things. We would always make a goal list every year.
~Kim Kardashian

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I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
~Nassau William Senior (Eng: law/economist/govt adv)

I always loved family holidays, and I had this vision and dream as a little girl of having a big family of my own.
~Brooke Burke

Sometimes I do envision just being a stay at home mom but not working isn’t an option for me currently.
~Tori Spelling

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My father taught my siblings and me the importance of positive values and a strong ethical compass. He showed us how to be resilient, how to deal with challenges, and how to strive for excellence in all that we do. He taught us that there’s nothing that we cannot accomplish if we marry vision and passion with an enduring work ethic.
~Ivanka Trump

Uncle Brett had a definite vision that he was after, I don’t think having a famous father affected him much.
~Kim Weston (photographers)

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We are used to thinking of Amazon myths in terms of violence against uppity women, but the ancient evidence also reveals a vision of gender equality.
~Adrienne Mayor

Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.
~Patricia Ireland

Honestly, the ‘All In‘ women’s locker room was such an inspirational group of women. What I love about all the women involved… is we all bring something so different to the table for a common vision.
~Tessa Blanchard

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It is in Rousseau’s writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere.
~Terry Eagleton

Women are problem solvers, and often we don’t get much credit for that because the typical image of a leader is someone who’s loud, obnoxious, chest-pounding. That’s not my vision of what true leadership is; true leaders are the ones who work with great commitment to get something done.
~Mazie Hirono

Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in – real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it’s going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.
~Anita Borg

I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women.
~Alice Walker

I am not in favour of quotas. Just put the best person into the job. It is not about gender; it is about experience, leadership and vision.
~Angela Ahrendts

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I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.
~Henri Matisse

The younger you are, the more courage and audacity you will have to set long-term goals and be there to personally work towards your vision. You will have the confidence to take risks because you have time by your side. You can bring innovation into everything you do and constantly reinvent yourself.
~Shiv Nadar

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That is how it stiffens, my vision of that seaside childhood. My father died; we moved inland. Whereon those nine first years of my life sealed themselves off like a ship in a bottle ‒ beautiful, inaccessible, obsolete: a fine, white, flying myth.
~Sylvia Plath

As a child, I watched ‘Dallas‘ and that was my vision for my life for as long as I could remember.
~Will Smith

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It’s a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.
~John Hersey

There are forces all around you who wish to exploit division, rob you of your freedom, and tell you what to think. But young folks can rekindle the weary spirit of a slumbering nation.
~Wynton Marsalis

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Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
~Aldous Huxley

Grandchildren have taught me how important the future is. I try to look through their eyes and envision what’s in their imagination. What’s the world going to look like when they’re my age? That really does take a huge imagination.
~Richard Lugar

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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.
~Marcus Tullius Cicero

But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it; for I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good; and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all.
~Black Elk

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There was a point where there was a vision that we’ll get to a certain age, and then we’ll retire and be happy. Now that’s like, that’s being compromised every day. So I think we have to start living happy now and stop waiting for the forty years because by then you’ll be so sick, you wouldn’t enjoy it anyway.
~Bruce Lipton

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I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat food. It’s because I’m freelance, and I’ve never had a proper job. I don’t have a pension, and my savings are dwindling. I always thought someone would just come along and look after me.
~Jenny Eclair (comedian/novelist)

My vision is nothing that hasn’t been gleaned or understood from watching and working with so many people I admire before me… It’s a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
~Karen Kain (ballerina)

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Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
~Ambrose Bierce

While we women dilly-dally, making decisions, leaving jobs half done, forgetting where we’ve put the house keys while we water the Hoover and leave the laundry in the dishwasher, men, like blinkered horses, look straight ahead, oblivious to peripheral vision, where a discarded pile of wet towels might have caught their eye.
~Mariella Frostrup

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.
~Karl Kraus

I’m thankful that my memory is good because my vision is going.
~Paula Poundstone

If I’m going to hand over my classic Italian sports car, and you’re going to be driving it down Pacific Coast Highway with the top down, while I watch, I want to be certain that I’m adequately compensated for the pain of that vision.
~Gabe Kapler

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Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition.
~Stanislav Grof

A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.
~Stanislav Grof

There’s a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over – and to let go. It means leaving what’s over without denying its value.
~Ellen Goodman

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Going through the grief period of my dad and losing him – that was the worst thing because you know when you get that call. When you are seven, eight years old, you have that almost vision in your mind of what that’s going to be like and what your going to feel like and it doesn’t prepare you.
~Richie Sambora

No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.
~Elie Wiesel

There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.
~Stanislav Grof

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If you do not have an absolutely clear vision of something, where you can follow the light to the end of the tunnel, then it doesn’t matter whether you’re bold or cowardly, or whether you’re stupid or intelligent. Doesn’t get you anywhere.
~Werner Herzog

To have a vision for your life is to see where you could be, not where you are now.
~Catherine Pulsifer

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If there’s a goal, you can’t stop me. I’ll put my head down. I’ll have tunnel vision and I’ll go until I get it.
~Dennis DeYoung

People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.
~Felix Dennis

Panic causes tunnel vision. Calm acceptance of danger allows us to more easily assess the situation and see the options.
~Simon Sinek

I was single-minded and I had tunnel vision. Now it’s time for a change.
~Evelyn Ashford

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The most obvious things are often right there, but you don’t think about them because you’ve narrowed your vision.
~Steven Levitt

I’ve learned that if I only put my mind to one thing that I can get tunnel vision. Then I may not be as open to other opportunities because I’m so focused on one thing. I think what’s worked better for me personally is I have three goals every day: be nice, work hard, and make friends.
~Gigi Hadid

I have tunnel vision. I go out and try to get better each and every day.
~Matt Cassel

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When I put my nose in a glass, it’s like tunnel vision. I move into another world, where everything around me is just gone, and every bit of mental energy is focused on that wine.
~Robert M Parker, Jr

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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
~Ingrid Newkirk

Unlike the primate hand, the elephant’s grasping organ is also its nose. Elephants use their trunks not only to reach food but also to sniff and touch it. With their unparalleled sense of smell, the animals know exactly what they are going for. Vision is secondary.
~Frans de Waal

The eyes of some persons are large, others small, and others of a moderate size; the last-mentioned are the best. And some eyes are projecting, some deep-set, and some moderate, and those which are deep-set have the most acute vision in all animals; the middle position is a sign of the best disposition.
~Aristotle

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My childhood landscape was not land but the end of the land ‒ the cold, salt, running hills of the Atlantic. I sometimes think my vision of the sea is the clearest thing I own.
~Sylvia Plath

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More than anything, I think my connection to the sea has really helped me develop my independence and a sense of the importance and value of my own vision.
~Diane Greene (tech CEO)

I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sitting behind bars. They had no control and were scared. That’s why I got into fostering and adopting animals out.
~Linda Blair

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Vision connects you. But it also separates you. In my work, and my life, I feel a desire to merge. Not in terms of losing my own identity… but there’s a feeling that life is interconnected, that there’s life in stones and rocks and trees and dirt, like there is in us.
~Bill Viola

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We each have a personal myth, a vision of who we really are and what we want. Health means that part of what you want is to give to others.
~George Weinberg

It is good to start as young as you can. What is more important is to carve out your vision and assess your readiness to start giving. Commitment and purpose are core to giving.
~Shiv Nadar

I’ve learned some exciting things ‒ mostly, that people really want to help each other; and that, if you can lay out a vision for them ‒ and that vision is sincere and genuine ‒ they’ll get interested.
~Michael J Fox

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
~Henry Miller

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Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.
~Emma Goldman

In the ’60s when I was a student, there was this campaign to destroy 75 percent of the old buildings in Paris, replacing them with modern architecture. I realized this as a dangerous utopia. This modern vision did not understand the richness of the city. Thankfully, such destruction did not happen.
~Christian de Portzamparc

Utopia is a framework for utopias, a place where people are at liberty to join together voluntarily to pursue and attempt to realize their own vision of the good life in the ideal community but where no one can impose his own utopian vision upon others.
~Robert Nozick

The overall vision for ‘Utopia’ was somewhat of a mix between fantasy, future, and ancient China. All of it soaked in a pastel space sauce to capture the uber positive energy of the music.
~Kerli

A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow.
~John C Maxwell

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Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
~Napolean Hill

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
~Cecil Beaton

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You can have fantasies about having control over the world, but I know I can barely control my kitchen sink. That is the grace I’m given. Because when one can control things, one is limited to one’s own vision.
~Kiki Smith

If you don’t have a vision you’re going to be stuck in what you know. And the only thing you know is what you’ve already seen.
~Iyanla Vanzant

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
~Khalil Gibran

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I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.
~Edward Hopper

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
~Denis Waitley

Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision. Both are part of something I believe is absolutely necessary to building the life of a champion
~Emmitt Smith

You need to aim beyond what you are capable of. You must develop a complete disregard for where your abilities end. Try to do things that you’re incapable of… Make your vision of where you want to be a reality. Nothing is impossible.
~Paul Arden

Have a vision. It is the ability to see the invisible. If you can see the invisible, you can achieve the impossible.
~Shiv Khera

When you believe in your dream and your vision, then it begins to attract its own resources. No one was born to be a failure.
~Myles Munroe

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There is an idea, first of all, of vision fully formed with the eyes closed. Of course the vision we have in a lucid dream often has greater lucidity and clarity than vision with the eyes open.
~James Turrell

Do not give up your dream because it is apparently not being realized, because you cannot see it coming true. Cling to your vision with all the tenacity you can muster. Keep it bright; do not let the bread-and-butter side of life cloud your ideal or dim it.
~Orison Swett Marden

The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart ‒ this you will build your life by, and this you will become.
~James Lane Allen

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@Writers Platform

A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.
~John Drinkwater

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
~Audre Lorde

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.
~Tahar Ben Jelloun

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You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page. The page is jealous and tyrannical; the page is made of time and matter; the page always wins.
~Annie Dillard

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
~J K Rowling

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.
~Laura Bush

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency ‒ the belief that the here and now is all there is.
~Allan Bloom

Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake.
~Wole Soyinka

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Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body; but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me.
~Black Elk

Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don’t you let it out then?
~Walt Whitman

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All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
~T E Lawrence

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
~Joseph Joubert

I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
~Toni Morrison

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.
~Lawrence Clark Powell

Science fiction encourages us to explore… all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.
~Marion Zimmer Bradley

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I didn’t know the term ‘synesthesia’ until I was working on ‘Cruel Summer.’ Halfway into writing that, I really understood that, my entire life, I had been trying to describe this condition of mine
~Kanye West

A different language is a different vision of life.
~Federico Fellini

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We might possess every technological resource… but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be ‘revolutionary’ but not transformative.
~Adrienne Rich

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I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace.
~Linda McCartney

For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it’s more coming to a place where a person has a clear vision of his or her own life in a way that enables them to kind of throw down their crutches and walk.
~Jill McCorkle

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
~James Whistler

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Prewritten Prompt: vision

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And that’s really what’s happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We’re supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.
~Sharron Angle

Those churches have closed down or have been merged with a church that has a more positive vision.
~Bill Hybels

I think it goes back to the fact that the evangelical community often does not have a biblical vision of God.
~Tony Campolo

Jesus’ own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God’s ways and vision for us.
~Adam Hamilton

Doing Good is a simple and universal vision. A vision to which each and every one of us can connect and contribute to its realisation. A vision based on the belief that by doing good deeds, positive thinking and affirmative choice of words, feelings and actions, we can enhance goodness in the world.
~Shari Arison

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.
~Dalai Lama

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When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
~Ramakrishna

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I’m most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He’s given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I’ll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do.
~Martin Lawrence

I don’t want to participate in traditional Indian religious ceremonies ‒ dance in a sun dance or pray in a sweat lodge or go on a vision quest with the help of a medicine man. The power of these ceremonies has an appeal, but I’m content with what little religion I already have.
~Ian Frazier

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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
~E O Wilson

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed… And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
~Saint Augustine

I was raised a Christian, but I wouldn’t call myself a Christian now. I think when I was younger it was easier to focus on the negative, nihilist vision… this is sort of picking up on the other half of the body, which is God and white light.
~Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins)

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Vision looks upward and becomes faith.
~Stephen Samuel Wise

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All your losses will be made up to you in the resurrection, provided you continue faithful. By the vision of the Almighty I have seen it.
~Joseph Smith, Jr

I could explain a hundred fold more than I ever have of the glories of the kingdoms manifested to me in the vision, were I permitted, and were the people prepared to receive them.
~Joseph Smith, Jr

I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book of Mormon.
~Ezra Taft Benson

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
~Plato

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The true face of religion belongs to the re-enchantment of our injured civilization; faith is a way of filling all the spiritual spaces in our damaged world with the vision of a loving God, the God described in the Qur’an as al-Rahman al-Rahim.
~Roger Scruton

There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.
~Cat Stevens

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We are not cured of alcoholism. What we have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God’s will into all of our daily activities.
~William Griffith Wilson

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Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.
~Gian Carlo Menotti

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All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.
~John Ruskin

The vision of the human being is confined today to the physical body. One regards this as a reality; one cannot raise oneself to what is spiritual. The souls who now look upon their own physical bodies with their eyes, and are unable to rise to what is spiritual, were incarnated among earlier peoples as Greeks, as Romans, and as ancient Egyptians.
~Rudolf Steiner

Your neighbor’s vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
~Miguel de Unamuno

If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are committed to grow, committed to change, committed to learn, then a spiritual assessment tool can work.
~Dallas Willard

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.
~James Broughton

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God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.
~Samuel Butler

I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul.
~Anne Rice

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.
~Pope Francis

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.
~Norman Mailer

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Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history – revisionist historians is what I like to call them.
~George W Bush

There’s a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.
~Joe Biden

He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn’t. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.
~Monica Lewinsky

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Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left ‒ which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study ‒ are not likely to get much attention.
~Thomas Sowell

We must delve deep into history the better to engage a true dialogue of civilisations. Fear of the present can impose upon the past its own biased vision.
~Tariq Ramadan

A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.
~Daisaku Ikeda

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It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story, a narrative of adventure and of vision, of character and of incident. It is also a portrait of the great general drama of the human spirit.
~Peter Ackroyd (the genre, historical fiction)

If you are a great news organization, you can’t have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.
~Carl Bernstein

History is a vision of God’s creation on the move.
~Arnold J Toynbee

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To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing. Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
~Maria Montessori

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A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.
~Chris Christie

Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.
~Rutherford B Hayes (19th President)

I have a vision of education that spans from early childhood to K-12 to college to the workforce. Because every step along the way is important: a chance for our state to do right by our kids and their parents ‒ or to let them down.
~Laura Kelly (Kansas)

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80 percent of learning is visual, so children who can’t afford vision correction are at such a disadvantage.
~Ellen Hollman

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Each State has its own health insurance mandates, and some of them are good, but there are about 1,800 of them all across the Nation, including provisions for acupuncturists, massage therapists, and hair replacements.
~Timothy Murphy

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We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill… it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.
~Li Ka-shing

Knowledge is love and light and vision.
~Helen Keller

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Every vision is a joke until the first man accomplishes it; once realized, it becomes commonplace.
~Robert H Goddard (fueled modern rocketry)

My vision is for a fully reusable rocket transport system between Earth and Mars that is able to re-fuel on Mars ‒ this is very important ‒ so you don’t have to carry the return fuel when you go there.
~Elon Musk

You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it
~Henri Bergson

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In science, “fact” can only mean “confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.” I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
~Stephen Jay Gould

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations – like that of artistic imagination.
~Edmund Wilson

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More than 500 million years ago, vision became the primary driving force of evolution’s ‘big bang’, the Cambrian Explosion, which resulted in explosive speciation of the animal kingdom. 500 million years later, AI technology is at the verge of changing the landscape of how humans live, work, communicate, and shape our environment.
~Fei-Fei Li

You have to have a big vision and take very small steps to get there. You have to be humble as you execute but visionary and gigantic in terms of your aspiration. In the Internet industry, it’s not about grand innovation, it’s about a lot of little innovations: every day, every week, every month, making something a little bit better.
~Jason Calacanis

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The Y2K bug is a genuine technical concern, consuming the energies of many specialists. But the prophecies of doom represent a broader worldview using the bug as a news hook. In this vision, the good society is a stable society, undisrupted by innovation, ambition or outside influences.
~Virginia Postrel

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Sometimes you will get feedback that is contrary to your vision. You may be trying to drive in a particular direction that people don’t necessarily understand at first.
~Stewart Butterfield

Look at the evidence and to be willing to question your own truths, and to be willing to scrutinize things that you hold dearly because that way, that transparency, that self-awareness, will protect you from ever becoming somebody… whose beliefs somehow make them have myopic vision about what could be.
~Jason Silva

Well, it seems to me a scientist has need for both vision and confidence.
~Harry Essex

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We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal.
~Tim Berners Lee

We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain.
~Liberty Hyde Bailey (horticulturist)

Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the lines of: ‘If entrepreneurship was a science, then anyone could do it.’ I’d like to point out that even science is a science, and still very few people can do it, let alone do it well.
~Eric Ries

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§ The Exercise:

a dive into murk

eyes, wide doors behind them
kindness, practice becomes instinct
curiosity, school without borders
humor, ready armor to buffer pain
welcome, opening those wide doors
avenues to truth and true visions
all

but yet, and then, again
there is a wall and a corner
where

posted prison letters
sundry scripture lectures
serve-us service pointers
and mindless poisons loiter
where

a garden offered, sequel tainted
fabled fall pre-appointed
failures planned, death inserted
then cameras rolled, facts recorded
nudes as news overstated
private acts promulgated
privacy proven over rated
-R-

prepaid tickets for the sainted
dipped in sin but pre-anointed
cliquish schools diplomas granted
demands in velvet, loyalty wanted
but plants in soil and plants for oil
grow local gods, supreme and royal
jealous zealots, tri-sects coil
capricious, ambitious, eager to spoil
yours

the vision: to define and defend
the One true g‒d
when the Only difference
between yours and ours
remains the letter
why

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book ’em, danno

if winners write the history books
then consider the legends stripped
and mourn the wit and heroes clipped
the visions and heirs that get forgot
love stories lost
think it all for naught
and earth, first life begot
forget that stellar minds
caught up in thought
quantum memory banks
with/without local human thanks
play back the tapes considered blanks
unveil the inks used to judge and rank
signature complaints, signed rules
circle back to those
odious penalties self-imposed
self: judge‒jury‒victim
case: closed

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um, no

not ready to partner
nor thinking to marry
no pretty playmate
no visions of union
tho chance a companion
kind and cheerful tag-along
curious party, plus one

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5s ‘n 7s

decisions for division
revisions of position
political comity
fatal comedy, here! live!
election: self-pollution
facts axed, whacked bee hive
vision status: failed to thrive

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sex and violence
sucks, this turbulence
socks, feet warm within
sax and violins
six, cuz sick’s nonsense
visions of success
hammered by excess

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trite scenes, settings and sunsets
tart acids posing as art
classic visions recycled
restless talent’s novel starts
scorching match or torch afire

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recipe for disaster
ingredients at a boil
nervous murders make martyrs
Fupped Duck, vision on a plate
taste for blood to spice it up

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visionary rhymes
with missionary
tho dictionaries
say meanings vary
they’re not contrary

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Beauty and the Best
worthy vision quest
Beauty and the Beast
yielding to the least
leaves no hill to crest

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the science of curves
circles, ellipses and globes
bows, but now arrows
arched backs, those of a woman
visions of ovals in love

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visions of union
Declaration made of it
paper of pipe dreams

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visions of empire
apologists understand
how hist’ry gets made

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sadness, weariness
visions of her unburdened
cares of life, her clothes

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thinking of heaven
wisdom, perfect acceptance
visions of pizza

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daydreams, stale visions
venerable legend seeds
chance plays, hist’ry says

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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
~Arthur Schopenhauer

The more boundless your vision, the more real you are.
~Deepak Chopra

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Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
~Henri Frederic Amiel

It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.
~Zora Neale Hurston

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Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
~Jonathan Swift

When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.
~Charles R Swindoll

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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
~George Eliot

The best vision is insight.
~Malcolm Forbes

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The future is wider than vision, and has no end.
~Donald G Mitchell

You can’t buy vision, and you can’t buy aesthetic.
~Travis Scott

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My vision is a blend of the old school and the new school, but with zero rules.
~GRiZ

Sometimes new voices have the most spectacular vision. It is uncluttered and organic.
~Karan Johar

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A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.
~Herb Caen

To succeed in big-city politics requires a powerful, motivating vision of a better world, a plan to get there, a willingness to meet constituents on their terms, and a tough political skin.
~Michael Nutter

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Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
~Melody Beattie

A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.
~Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
~Woodrow Wilson

Many have forged a path to greatness lit only by a vision in their minds.
~Chris Gardner

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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
~George Washington Carver

Is life so wretched? Isn’t it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
~Dag Hammarskjold

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I think having a vision can make someone an influential man. I’m not talking about acting or anything like that, I’m talking about people I admire, whether it’s a writer or a musician or a sports figure or a politician, whatever.
~Benicio Del Toro

If you have a vision, do something with it.
~Anthony J D’Angelo

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The Olio: Quotes Harvested
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The Salmagundi Video Harvest
https://venmo.com, https://vimeo.com, https://youtube.com

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