Vision Quotes

A different language is a different vision of life.

The best vision is insight.

The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe.

In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director have a vision? is the story moving? etc.

And I think one of the tasks that I always feel is how to get that vision out of them. Not exactly what they want, but what they want to accomplish for themselves or their community or their family.

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

One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.

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

Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions.

Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.

The Vision Festival was packed every night, always has been for the four years it's been happening.

Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.

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.

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

I really felt it was time for a new vision.

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.

I have some strategical vision, I could calculate some few moves ahead and I have an intellect that is badly missed in the country which is run by generals and colonels.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

And part of my vision is to do dynamic videos for kids.

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

Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead.

Movie makers now choose profit over vision.

Just keep on going and keep believing in your own original vision, no matter what odds you have to overcome. And especially don't be stopped by your own fears.

Frank Miller is more of a visionary than any director I've ever worked with, and he achieves that vision better than anyone I've ever worked with.

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.

In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum.

Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

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.

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.

Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision.

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

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.

I think that a lot of players and a lot of teams don't think of contact lenses as being a part of that essential gear but it truly is. You want every competitive advantage you can find and obviously having great vision is one of those advantages.

If feminism has receded in visibility and prestige, it is precisely because its vision of life's goals and rewards has become too narrow and elitist.

A great movie evolves when everybody has the same vision in their heads.

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

This constitution recognises the need for social dialogue involving labour and management; it involves trade unions in the decision-making process; it has a social vision founded on social dialogue.

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

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.

The ultimate vision is to instate in the Muslim world the notion of multiculturalism, which is part of our heritage and history, part of the fundamental, mainstream ideals of Islam.

First and foremost - our vision for a united and peaceful Georgia is based on respect for the desire - and respect for the right - to South Ossetian autonomy.

NFL Films has had one continuous, creative vision for 47 years. These are timeless things; timeless stories that we capture just like people go back and read Greek mythology.

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

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

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.

As long as people are living their truth or their vision, whether they're activists or not, that's the important thing.

I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.

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.

Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.

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

Ultimately when I throw myself behind a movie, I have to really believe in that director's vision.

Our influences are who we are. It's rare that anything is an absolutely pure vision; even Daniel Johnston sounds like the Beatles. And that's the problem with the bands I'm always asked about, the ones derivative of the early Seattle sound. They don't dilute their influences enough.

I think that economic patriotism is the very foundation of a European vision.

As I said earlier, there are no writers who could create a literary vision of the new reality.

I have a vision, and I know I'm right.

You've got to have a vision. You've got to have a message.

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.

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.

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?

It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.

For about seven years. I really like it there. There are a lot of great musicians. The scene is very open. A lot of stuff going on. People's ears are really open, they are not closed. A lot of scenes here, people just get tunnel vision and are into one thing.

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

One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance.

Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there.

That's the only way I can control my movie. If you shoot everything, then everything is liable to end up in the movie. If you have a vision, you don't have to cover every scene.

I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement. It gave me a vision that I could do something different, and it gave me an understanding that I wasn't a monster, or sport, or a betrayer of my family.

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.

My vision had always been that I was gonna be a stage actor and that was it.

I was single-minded and I had tunnel vision. Now it's time for a change.

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

If you look at the themes that he struck from the minute he started running for president through today, there is a very high level of consistency, and there is a sense that he is who he is. Obama's governing is completely consistent with the way he campaigned and the themes on which he campaigned, the issues he highlighted, the vision he shared.

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.