c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
When we are able to look beyond appearances and to behold that which we truly are, we recognize that our essence is interwoven with the divine and that we exist as one of its expressions.
— Alexandra Katehakis, Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence
I have had my vision.
— Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope.
— Leonora Carrington
The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul.
— Mark Twain
I'm going to be a great leader of this generation.The stars in the space up there are my witnesses.
— Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
On many occasions the curious atmospheric effects enchanted me vastly
—  these including a strikingly vivid mirage - the first I had ever seen - in which distant bergs became the battlements of unimaginable cosmic castles.
A country without vision runs to every direction.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
It was nearly lunch-time before Blackie had finished and went in search of T. Chaos had advanced. The kitchen was a shambles of broken glass and china, the dining-room was stripped of parquet, the skirting was up, the door had been taken off its hinges, and the destroyers had moved up a floor. Streaks of light came in through the closed shutters where they worked with the seriousness of creators - and destruction after all is a form of creation. A kind of imagination had seen this house as it had now become. ("The Destructors")
— Graham Greene, Shock!
A man's mind must be continually expanding and shrinking between the whole human horizon and the horizon of an object-glass.
— George Eliot, Middlemarch
Though the body is itsgenesis, a poem is the vision of a p
— Frank Bidart, Watching the Spring Festival: Poems
We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
— Abhishek Kumar, Stardust Family - We Are One!
I’m not interested in external ego but internal satisfaction. I’m not interested just in easy glory but in constructing something….together we are trying to build a project that is not just short term
— manuel pellegrini
The board should frequently brainstorm IT impact on the business and leverage technological vision to the business’s strategic planning.
— Pearl Zhu, Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as
We will never realize the vision in division
— Saji Ijiyemi
Annie looks dreamy, but she always does because she can’t see farther than three feet away. Elizabeth looks vaguely angry, but she always does because she can see farther than three feet away.
— Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races
I want to affect people like a clap of thunder, to inflame their minds with the breadth of my vision, the strength of my conviction and the power of my expression.
— Rosa Luxemburg
This hinted at something that no one had ever suspected -- that the brain tracks moving things more easily that still things. We have a built-in bias toward detecting action. Why? Because it's probably more critical for animals to spot moving things (predators, prey, falling trees) than static things, which can wait. In fact, our vision is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all. To see something stationary, our brains have to scribble our eyes subtly over its surface. Experiments have even proven that if you artificially stabilize an image on the retina with a combination of special contact lenses and microelectronics, the image will vanish.
— Sam Kean, The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
A well pursued vision defiles the forces of antagonist.
— ANIKOR Daniel
When you allow a third party to carry your thoughts and vision to the second party, always be prepared that the purpose or vision of your message will be lost in translation.
— ShahenshahHK
Vision Birth Focus
— ANIKOR Daniel
Vision helps to direct your focus appropriately.
— ANIKOR Daniel
Every good vision is not meant to benefit or serve self, where a ‘vision’ is for self; it is not more a vision, but an ambition.
— ANIKOR Daniel
Today's vision is tomorrow's reality.
— M.Z.Riffi
Once your vision is clarified and stated, do not look back
— ANIKOR Daniel
By just looking at a different direction than others, you may gain the vision of a genius because geniuses often do this!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Life is lived to accomplish a mission! Life must be lived with a vision! Life is moved by the heart and the mind! When your mission becomes your mind, your mind becomes your mission. When your vision becomes your heart, your heart becomes your vision! When your mission and your visions in life become your heart and your mind, you mind not just your mission and vision, but also your life as a whole and the footprints you leave with every footstep you take!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Leaders can set targets as high as they like, but when followers are not aware of the vision in place; it may just be another futile endeavor.
— Gift Gugu Mona
A clear vision calms hearts down! A good understanding soothes anxious hearts!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The right vision to a wrong person is like the right seed to wrong soil.
— Gift Gugu Mona
If you've seen a clear & worthy vision, you get up every morning to pursue your vision even if you were knocked down the previous day...
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
You are here to leave something! You are here to make a point! It is your responsibility to find the point you have to mind or you shall always mind the point others are hitting or missing at the expense of your own point! When you know the point to hit, mind the point and don’t miss the point, and no matter how many times you try and fail, let the point be your point and keep hitting!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Never underestimate a man with a vision.
— Kabelo Mabona
Know your vision, live your vision, share your vision.
— Alin Sav
People don´t need a job, they need a vision.
— Alin Sav
Eyes are wonderful! Revelation is more wonderful! Eyes deceive you
—  revelation does not. Eyes evaluate
A vision is a clear sound in a noisy world.
— Alin Sav
You cannot withstand continual setbacks unless you've seen a worthwhile vision...
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
There will come a day when your vision will be fulfilled
— Sunday Adelaja
A lot of visions remain visions and never come to realization
— Sunday Adelaja
There really was no point in having vision that didn't revolve a full 360 degrees because it was usually from behind that life would sneak up and overtake you.
— Keith Buckley, Scale: A Novel
It must be hard for people who only knew darkness not to be blinded by the light
— Melita Tessy, Battle of the Spheres: Crust, Mantle and Core
Nurture the vision God has put in you
— Sunday Adelaja
His eyes saved him. What they insisted on seeing and reporting to him took him out of the autism of terror.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
Nothing is lost that we do not first see as lost, High Lord. Believe it saved, and it may be. Visions born of fear give birth to our failing. Visions born of hope give birth to our success.
— Terry Brooks, Magic Kingdom For Sale/Sold
Love is a vision, a firefly that majestically glows in the night for some time; then, it winks at you and swiftly disappears.
— Vinko Vrbanic
God has a plan for you but He does not plan for you
— Saji Ijiyemi
This process of breaking the old habits and making new ones requires strategic planning. Your vision is your why, while your strategic plan is your how. Even though the details are essential and knowing your numbers are important, it is the burning desire in your heart that will get you to the outcome you expect.
— Farshad Asl, The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
Nothing will hold you back because you expect the unexpected. With a clear vision for your life, you are better prepared to combat any opposition.
— Farshad Asl, The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
You need vision to transform political arena
— Sunday Adelaja
It is lack of vision and passion on the part of his redeemed children that keeps the nations bound in darkness
— Sunday Adelaja
With every new encounter with God your vision becomes clearer and sharper
— Sunday Adelaja
Your vision becomes broader when you encounter God daily
— Sunday Adelaja
Increase in vision comes with wisdom to reap the harvest
— Sunday Adelaja
The vision of your tomorrow that you have today strengthens you for the morrow
— Sunday Adelaja
A clear vision makes the soul merry
— Sunday Adelaja
There is always a journey to take and there is always a final destination to reach. There is always an aim and there is always a focal point, good or bad. Because of where we want to get to, we mind not just our actions, but the reasons behind our actions also!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Religion, Philosophy and life
It takes a leader to create the momentum, it takes a vision to direct the momentum, it takes a massive action to build on the momentum, and it takes self-discipline to sustain the momentum. Momentum is the bridge between a vision and its results.
— Farshad Asl
Real vision dies only when life dies. Once we live, we hope, we yearn for and we aspire to have something!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
When you connect to a compelling cause you feel all your inner resources has been targeted to help you achieve your cause.
— Deepak Burfiwala, Self-Ignorance Is Your Problem. Self-Awareness Is Your Solution.: Success Is Your Birthright! Life Is Yours and You Are the Pilot of It, Do Something about It.
The beautiful thing having a vision for life is it adds energy, enthusiasm, winning spirit, patience, dedication and productive inner qualities in you.
— Deepak Burfiwala, Self-Ignorance Is Your Problem. Self-Awareness Is Your Solution.: Success Is Your Birthright! Life Is Yours and You Are the Pilot of It, Do Something about It.
Speak with intent so that you can lead with vision.
— Paul Larsen
When you live with a 20/20 mindset your path is straight, vision is clear, and decisions are precise. You see the bigger picture with a broader view and incorporate different angles and perspectives.
— Farshad Asl, The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
with a fresh breath comes a vision aheadmight be today, tomorrow or or further and beyondwarm up to that event, it may be that ride one only hopes formuch like water at times may pass between thru the fingersgrasp firm to retain, cherish the light and look beyond and above...
— levi paul taylor
A life without a VISION is a like a man who can see but does not know where he is going. That is what I call psychological blindness. Eyes wide open but does not know his destination.
— Oscar Bimpong
As utterly irrational as it might seem, the greed within me has the most limited vision I can possibly imagine as it has eyes only for the few things it doesn’t have, and it is completely blind to all the many remarkable things that it does.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
The challenge is having a harmonized vision about management philosophy, capability, structure, and maturity in a digital organization.
— Pearl  Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
Look where YOU have been
—  view where YOU are at
Never give up on the idea you can become great. Always grab on the possibility you can become successful.
— Sandu Andronic
The real direction of your vision is as important as your vision. Notwithstanding how large the goal post might be, the power behind your shots least matter as its direction, for it is more of the direction that will determine the goals you shall score and the final score in the end
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Keeping it simple, you have a vision of what you are to become and a strategy for making that happen.
— Pearl Zhu, Digital Valley: Five Pearls of Wisdom to Make Profound Influence
It takes those who uses telescope of faith to catch a spiritual vision. To see the invisible things of the Spirit you need the eyes of faith. Faith sees beyond the physical eyes. Live and walk by faith. Christianity is a faith walk. The substance and evidence is seen only with the spiritual eyes.
— Prince Akwarandu
In weeks that followed, I refined this vision until it was very specific. I was going to go for the Mr. Universe title; I was going to break records in power lifting; I was going to Hollywood; I was going to be like Reg Park. The vision became so clear in my mind that I felt like it had to happen. There was no alternative; it was this or nothing. My mother noticed right away that something was different. I was coming home with a big smile. I told her that I was training, and she could see I found joy in becoming stronger.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger, Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
Integrity is the ability of being honest and having strong moral principles and values, which reflect in our character.Decide to work in integrity and uprightness of hearts that is the price to be paid for you to realise your vision.
— Prince Akwarandu
Changes Will Change Our Wayof Changing Changes,Petra Cecilia Maria HermansAugust 13, 2016
— Petra Hermans, Voor een betere wereld
Mind the ground, oh yes check the land before you build that mansion. It is only a fallacy to build a great mansion on a waterlogged land without first attending to the land. You shall only sleep in a mansion with problems! Mind the ground!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
To be a prophet, Knox emphasizes, requires living in and looking at the present, at what is really going on around you.
— Anne Carson
What are you doing today that serves the greater mission for your life? Once you can answer that question without batting an eye, that's when you're really on to something.
— Chris Hill
Stubbs may have envisaged the skeleton inside the horse, but most of us do not
— Richard Adams, Watership Down
Everything was numbered: the lenses, the painterly sky, the milligrams of my panic pills. I had prescription eyes that allowed me to see better, and prescription panic pills that allowed me to play blind.
— Jalina Mhyana, Dreaming in Night Vision: A Story in Vignettes
Each of us has to blaze our own trail and figure out the best path for our own lives. Every so often, I think it's important to stop and look around to see that we're still on the trail that we once embarked upon some time ago. If somewhere along along the way we look up and the trailhead is nowhere to be found and we seem to have gone painfully off track - that's okay too. Every single day we have a choice to get back on track and when it's all said and done, it's abundantly clear that there is more than one way to get to the finish line of a life well lived.
— Chris Hill
Vision is the secret behind a life of passion, it motivates people to go through life with force
— George Ifeanyi
Success comes as a result of preparing oneself for inspiration, and then being willing to pay attention to it and do what it says. I've learned that before I make big decisions, I must first have a clear picture in mind and on paper of the outcome I am seeking.
— Leslie Householder, The Jackrabbit Factor: Why You Can
In the aftermath of their visions, Petit and Rice could not have imagined all that would be required of them. Neither Petit's dream of crossing the towers nor Rice's of fighting for justice came with an instruction manual. To accomplish their feats they'd have to overcome fear, test their plans against reality and maintain an unwavering focus on what their visions had revealed to them about their future selves.
— Camille Sweeney
I said, "I'm satisfied teaching the martial arts.""Not me," Arnold responded. "Bodybuilding is just a stepping-stone to me. I plan on becoming a real estate mogul, and from there, I plan to get into the movies."I had to smile as I said to myself, "How's he going to be an actor when he can hardly speak English?
— Chuck Norris, Against All Odds: My Story
Our vision is often more abstracted by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge.
— Krister Stendahl
What makes you think that the classroom in school is different from others... "It's one large and big as a size!" Okay... I could have a room which is large and big like a classroom for making films, so what?? This room which I just made for the films... now is a classroom??"It have in the corner a bin...", Okay that's ridiculous, that it have a bin there doesn't mean that I can't also put one bin at the corner... nobody has said that the bin can't stay somewhere in corners... so you are saying that mine room is a classroom??... "It have special tables and chairs... for the students". Okay, I have also such stuff at home for my computer... and when is about many I could few more computers + the special stuff and what???... I can even invite students from a school so I have the most stuff, so what does it make it different?
— Deyth Banger
Do not go by my humble beginnings. Be wary of my enormous vision.
— Manoj Arora, Dream On
Never allow people without vision to cloud your own.
— Theodore Volgoff, The Backpack
I tend to think my eye's vision is still 20/20, because they mind their own business.
— Anthony Liccione
When you begin, you envision a better end but, when you get to the end, you see the beginning better!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
...mirages are things that aren't really there that you can see very clearly.""How do you see something that isn't there?"..."sometimes it's much simpler than seeing things that are"...
— Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
The far we can see, we are! It is time we lifted our eyes beyond the horizon of our present boundaries and see goodies ahead of us.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, The Untapped Wonderer in You: Dare to Do the Undone
So many people live their lives not knowing the real and exact reasons why they live. They follow anything for something and they do something for anything. When you live life with a blurry vision, you live a blurry life. Vision is life, and a life without vision is a dead life
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
If you meet 29th February, think of a distinctive footprint. If you meet 29th February, think of something unique for it is the only day that defines a year as a leap year. It is the only day that makes February truly unique. If you meet 29th February, live and leave a distinctive footprint for you shall seldom meet such a day
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The most beautiful vision is the one that lines your heart and fills your mind~bns
— Bluenscottish
A true visionary has a purpose for those without vision!
— Garrett McCoy
What Emily Dickinson does not rename or redefine, she revises beyond easy recognition.
— Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
In order to live a fulfilled life, do not focus on the size of your audience; focus instead on leaving an impact on the circle of influence God has given you.
— Rosette Mugidde Wamambe
In order to live a life of purpose, do not focus on the size of your audience; focus instead on the circle of influence God has given you.
— Rosette Mugidde Wamambe
It extols death with the luminescent brilliance of a dying star. It is Genghis Khan bathed in sherbet ice cream. The mantis shrimp is the harbinger of blood-soaked rainbows.
— The Oatmeal
They that see how they can rise beyond the horizon never exert their total energy on things that are breathtaking on the ground! They think, they act and they see what we all see differently. Though their bodies live on the ground, their mind, spirit and energy journey purposefully towards higher heights each moment of time. They understand doing the small things that can result in great things and they reason from the ignorance, absurdity and the heralds of ordinariness of the masses. They know and understand the real reasons why they must dare, relax and ponder in patience, and also take steps with fortitude and tenacity for a noble accomplishment so as to leave great, distinctive and indelible footprints regardless of the hurdles they might face.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The eye is diverted from the real business, it is caught by the spectacular action that means nothing--nothing at all.
— Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Mr. Quin
When the week begins, think of how you will end it. When the week ends, think of how you did begin it. Start your week with joy. Smile at the storms in the week and though they might be so strong, be stronger than ever. Disregard disadvantages regardless of the situation and see 'this - advantage'. Don't be easily irritated by people or the actions of people; you harm your own emotions by doing so. Pardon people for their mistakes and do not give a precious thinking time to the mistakes of other. Life is all about learning lessons; only learn the lessons of life in every situation of life you meet. There is nothing so noble than working to please your solemn Maker. Think of the distinctive footprint you must live and leave. Know who your are; be who you are. Know what you want; live for what you want. Focus on the mission and don't lose focus of the vision. Enjoy a great week!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I really hate that I need my glasses while using my laptop. What I hate even more is that I need those glasses to be full of vodka at all times.-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz
— Karen Quan, liQUID PROse QUOtes
Fantasies and wishes carry their own significant messages.
— Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
A willingness to go against the conventional wisdom was one of the side effects of looking at the world in a particular light.
— Kem Nunn, Unassigned Territory
We must be drawn by the idea of where we want to go more than we dislike the idea of all the work it is going to take to get there.
— Scott Hammerle, Lessons from the Castle: My Journey From Prince Charming to Executive Level Leader and How You Can Find The Legendary Leader Within
It is only individual great forces, which must be pulled together, in our common vision of combating the climate change.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
The end is where we start from. T.S. Eliot
— Eugene H. Peterson, Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers
The idea of a vision is revolutionary and ground breaking but achieving it may be back breaking.
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
dreamers dream
—  achievers achieve. Some will always dream and some will always achieve
If our mission is grand & our vision is glorious, we need great values that match our ambition or else, we toil in vain...
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
Vision is a strong tool for increase
— Sunday Adelaja
Humans are odd. They think order and chaos are somehow opposites and try to control what won't be. But there is grace in their failings.
— The Vision
Ultimately, the artist and the revolutionary function as they function, and pay whatever dues they must pay behind it because they are both possessed by a vision, and they do not so much follow this vision as find themselves driven by it. Otherwise, they could never endure, much less embrace, the lives they are compelled to lead.
— James     Baldwin
Touch your vision daily.
— Sunday Adelaja
When you can maintain continual awareness of where you are and hold onto the vision of where you want to go, you transform your life from wandering to wonder.
— Andrea Goegleinlein
until we do what has not yet been done, what has not been done shall remain undone
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
A documented vision will help you every day to take certain steps toward its fulfillment.
— Sunday Adelaja
Next step: take the veil off
— Sunday Adelaja
The best method of sharing your vision is your personal example
— Sunday Adelaja
If you serve people, they will gladly serve your vision.
— Sunday Adelaja
Develop a vision, not a goal. Visions are much more powerful. 98% of what’s going on in your brain is subconscious. Developing a vision requires the use of more of your brain than just developing a thought, which suggests we are tapping into subconscious brain power.
— Josh Bezoni
He seemed touched by a larger spirit, his course guided by something beyond him, so talented, so able, so good-natured that he did not even inspire envy in a city rich with envy.
— David Halberstam, The Powers That Be
If people see the Capitol going on, it is a sign we intend the Union shall go on
— Abraham Lincoln
He could be as memorable an orator as his father, particularly when he was speaking on that topic that had captured his imagination;
— Robert A. Caro, Master of the Senate
White bridal dresses stunning and pure, bringing promises, binding two souls together, life forces connected, holding the same vision.
— Jennifer Lynch, SHADES OF KEFALONIA: Meditations
Americans in any century can be too inclined to accept consultant-crafted images of flesh-and-blood people.
— Larry J. Sabato
The public's imagination is rarely captured by bland temperance.
— Larry J. Sabato, The Kennedy Half-Century: The Presidency, Assassination, and Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy
Ultron: Stark asked for a savior, and settled for a slave.The Vision: I suppose we're both disappointments.Ultron: [laughs] I suppose we are.The Vision: Humans are odd. They think order and chaos are somehow opposites and try to control what won't be. But there is grace in their failings. I think you missed that.Ultron: They're doomed!The Vision: Yes... but a thing isn't beautiful because it lasts. It is a privilege to be among them.Ultron: You're unbelievably naïve.The Vision: Well, I was born yesterday.
— Joss Whedon
I never lose sight of the whole. An impeccable dress is made to be lived in, to be torn, wet, stained, crumpled.
— Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
The moment you learn to separate your wants from your needs, your vision becomes clearer.
— Kemi Sogunle
There exist no new mistakes anywhere. The same mistakes people committed are the same mistakes people are committing and the same mistakes shall people commit
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The poet is a Cyclops in the Kingdom of the Blind whose sole cure for the madness of his vision must be starvation.
— David B. Lentz, The Fine Art of Grace: A Novel
You have a right to dream big but you don't have to kill your dream
— Paul Gitwaza
The seer does not see, by choice, what the blind can see by default... from within.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
Vision is capturing God's assignment
— Gary Rohrmayer, Next Steps For Leading a Missional Church
Fog is more dangerous than dark, as it gives the illusion of seeing.
— Aleksandra Ninkovic
Our lives are marked by the people who choose to matter more: the teacher who encouraged our curiosity, the neighbor who lent a helping hand in time of need, the great leaders and perceptive thinkers whose vision and innovation improve the quality of our lives. And that's what it means to matter more. It's not about pursuit of riches or fame. It's about making a difference in people's lives. Remembered or not, lived out in a small town or on the world stage, the journey of relevance matters.
— Marian Deegan, Relevance: Matter More
If you decide that what God is asking you to do with your life is just too much on you and is just a little too inconvenient, then you will never see the miracles he has for you.
— Andy Stanley, Visioneering: God's Blueprint for Developing and Maintaining Personal Vision
I am a dreamer; Dreams are one's reflection, a coherent plan for action is the only spectacle to see the reality of my dreams.
— Unarine Ramaru
The challenge is quite formidable if you spell it out explicitly: artists must look at a three-dimensional scene with their two-dimensional retinas and then generate a two-dimensional painting that appears three-dimensional to viewers who look at it with their two-dimensional retinas.
— Margaret S. Livingstone
You’ll know that you and the vision are one when your actions flow out of a knowing that’s greater than your fears. Sure, you might be stunned by an obstacle, but it doesn’t determine your ultimate response. Your ultimate response comes from your true, authentic, pure voice.
— Suzette R. Hinton
The 6 months leading to an ultra marathon are crucial in how you will do
—  Vision and mission planning are as important in whatever.
The best wins or losses in life are those that leave you with a newer vision onto life.
— Sameh Elsayed
Workers who can consistently decide with clarity and ease which tasks are most important when under pressure are the most prized in every organization. Highly focused in pressure-cooker situations, they rise to meet the challenges of an opportunity-saturated workplace that demands tough calls at every step.
— Julie Morgenstern
An "eye" on the vision is more important than an "I" on the vision.
— Sharad Vivek Sagar
The best wins or looses in life are those that leave you with a newer vision onto life.
— Sameh Elsayed
There is no study that is not capable of delighting us, after a little application to it.
— Alexander Pope
Young Arab men are not going to walk away from extremism because they can suddenly afford a Slurpee. They will walk away when they can devote themselves to a some call to serve a cause that connects nationalism to dignity and democracy and transcends a lifetime.
— David Brooks
Faith revels in the liberating fact that only a terribly miniscule part of life lies within the constricted confines of my reach, and that I am graciously invited out to live in a place beyond my grasp.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
You can't counter a heroic impulse with a mundane and bourgeois response. You can counter it only with a more compelling heroic vision.
— David Brooks
As a leader, it’s critical to take the time to reflect in order to create a powerful vision for the company.
— Bonnie Marcus, The Politics of Promotion: How High-Achieving Women Get Ahead and Stay Ahead
The greatness of the object enabled my mind to support what my strengths of body was scarce equal to.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The First Salute
One of the things I’ve learned about vision is people will grab it mentally or, have a crab mentality.
— Onyi Anyado
Your comfort zone is not that comfortable.
— Onyi Anyado
Vision differentiates between a follower and a leader.
— Debasish Mridha
Success is 3Ms: Your vision produces the Map
—  your actions produce the Motion
Knowing what you don't want in life is almost as helpful as having a five year plan. Vision doesn't always mean you know exactly what you want to do or where you want to be in life; sometimes, vision is knowing where you don't want to be in order to find where you should end up!
— Amanda Bernardo
Writing and achieving your goals is not failure, not having a goal to write in the first place is the start of failure.
— Onyi Anyado
When business leaders talk about the next quarter, they ought to sometimes be talking about the next quarter century.
— Paul Gibbons, The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
Don't sit around depressed and discouraged. Get a new vision for your life.
— Joel Osteen
Look, the thing that's going to make Disneyland unique and different,' he insisted, 'is the detail. If we loose the detail, we loose it all.
— Neal Gabler
Change or you will be changed: leaders who neglect the good of their people will be forsaken. Leadership is a service, not a gateway to privilege.
— Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Flashes of Thought
Dream × Vision × Time(sacrifices) × Work(persistence) = SuccessIf you miss any of them, remember any sum/number multiplied by zero is = 0Like·Comment·Share
— Unarine Ramaru
I believe that positive energy and optimism help us to take up any challenge in life and to succeed in even the most difficult tasks. I also believe that positive energy is contagious: we can transmit it to others.
— Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Flashes of Thought
Serving my generation with excellence will mean in turn, my generation can lead with excellence.
— Onyi Anyado
Without a vision to guide our path, and without ambition that knows no limits, we can never build a bright future for generations to come.
— Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
The vision is for an appointed time.You must be patient and wait for the fulfillment of your vision.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Still, it was vision, or at least vision’s idiot cousin.
— Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space
The impact of your vision, while quiet and ever present, will be astounding over time as it becomes a reality.
— Steve Shallenberger, Becoming Your Best: The 12 Principles of Highly Successful Leaders
The destruction of sight, wherever the injuries be sustained, followsthe same law: all colors are aﬀected in the ﬁrst place,and lose theirsaturation. Then the spectrum is simpliﬁed, being reduced to four andsoon to two colors; ﬁnally a grey monochrome stage is reached,although the pathological color is never identiﬁable with any normalone. Thus in central as in peripheral lesions ‘the loss of nervous substance results not only in a deﬁciency of certain qualities, but in thechange to a less diﬀerentiated and more primitive structure’.
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception
He gathered enthusiasm when he thought of the goal, and not the means by which he had accomplished it.
— Harry Turtledove, Atlantis and Other Places: Stories of Alternate History
I had a vision.I lay half asleep in the dirt. The sunset Behind the hills and burnt my skin.And in the dream I saw a throne--my throne,Built on the tower of my life.When I woke all I could think of was myVision, etched so clearly on my mind.I worked for three days and three nightsWith no food or drink, until my visionHad become a reality--perfect in everyDetail. I pondered the significance of thisEdifice and shook off my trance....I felt tired,I felt lonely,I felt confused,I felt so bloody confused,I felt like a right prat!
— Alan C. Martin, Tank Girl
As you build trust in yourself, your ability to expand your vision and fully live in your magnificence is amplified.
— Miranda J. Barrett, A Woman's Truth: A Life Truly Worth Living
Great Leadership sometimes requires taking a step backward in order to take a leap forward.
— Todd Stocker, Leading from the Gut: 3 Power Principles of Effective Leaders
Remember, you are the true guru of yourself. You are therefore always with Guru - your soul. However, at various stages you meet mentors. Mentors are like lighthouse who supports navigation in a journey called life. But, it is the innocence, vision, and purity of yourself (Guru within) determines the degree of success you can achieve.
— Vishwas Chavan
My wish before I die, to keep the faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Vision is the end of religion.
— William Blake
Hold faithfully to your unique vision and your detractors will eventually tire and give-up.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
We must always strive to reflect the highest vision of ourselves.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
My vision is to help each man, woman and child connect with their inherent psychic ability. I believe that each person has the potential to tap into their abilities and access them to empower their life and reach their full potential.
— Sandy Anastasi
The prophet engages in futuring fantasy. The prophet does not ask if the vision can be implemented, for questions of implementation are of no consequence until the vision can be imagined. The imagination must come before the implementation. Our culture is competent to implement almost anything and to imagine almost nothing. The same royal consciousness that make it possible to implement anything and everything is the one that shrinks imagination because imagination is a danger. Thus every totalitarian regime is frightened of the artist. It is the vocation of the prophet to keep alive the ministry of imagination, to keep on conjuring and proposing futures alternative to the single one the king wants to urge as the only thinkable one.
— Walter Brueggemann, The Prophetic Imagination
A visionary is a leader of excellence who sees what others do not see, who achieves for now and plans for the future, who positively impacts different generations and raises up other visionaries.
— Onyi Anyado
The ‘Regal Seven (key) Ingredients of a Successful Company’ is:Pursue the goal of Profit Maximization keeping in mind the shareholders interests.To be achieved by developing and rendering Quality Goods and Services at a Reasonable Price.By inculcating Value and Ethics within the structureThrough Sound People Management principles devised and effectively implemented.Further organizing Learning Programs and instill concept of ‘Learning and Earning’Develop/Construct Customer Satisfaction.Build-Build-Build ; Build vision based values, Build your staff, Build customer satisfaction ; and witness your organization being built in the market.
— Henrietta Newton Martin
People will follow someone as a leader, who has vision and purpose; often that leader doesn’t wear a title.
— Beth Ramsay, #Networking is people looking for people looking for people
Early morning mist ghosted along the Orm, trailing above the water, rising and twisting. Wide and sleek and almost silent, the river curled through the valley, curved almost to the doors of the stone-terraced cottages sunk tight in the moorland. As soon as he was beyond sight of the mill gates, Manny ran, his step lighter, his boots crunching against the highway. The village was quiet now, and he could hear the faint cries of sheep on the hillside. He felt suddenly exultant at having acted decisively, felt the thrill of running away. Then he reasoned with himself that he wasn’t so much running away as running to something else—something better—running away to take charge of his future. He was improving his station in life, looking for work of his choosing.
— S.J. Wilkins, Hope
It all starts with having a very clear picture and vision to what your ideal life looks like in every area, on and off the field, and once you have that vision, it will begin to take shape in your everyday life.
— Mike Basevic, No Limits, Mastering the Mental Egde: The Class They Don't Teach You in School
A vision flashed across Nick’s mind. It was the image of a lipstick kiss his wife left for him on the mirror that morning. It hung there like the single digit sum to the chalkboard-crammed equation of his life.
— Gary Ponzo, A Touch of Deceit
A vision without a practical plan to develop it, is only that… “a vision.
— J.A. Perez
A visionary company is one which is seen growing in a consistent pattern by being goal oriented driven by a vision and a mission
— Henrietta Newton Martin
With commitment and vision, it is possible to build a bridge between potential partners and communities whose work is of relevance to peace-building initiatives.
— Widad Akreyi
I believe that if that vision or dream comes from God, He will also give you the strategy to bring it to pass.
— J.A. Perez
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
— Francis Bacon, The Advancement Of Learning
As an artist I have always tried to be faithful to my vision of life, and I have frequently been in conflict with those who wanted me to paint not what I saw but what they wished me to see.
— Diego Rivera, My Art, My Life
When a blind man says, 'God is good,' this should be an eye-opener to those who can see.
— Anthony Liccione
Some blind faithfully
—  some see.
Gamers can feel when developers are passionate about their games. They can smell it like a dog smells fear. Don't be afraid to hold onto your unique vision: just be aware that it may not turn out exactly how you envisioned.
— Scott Rogers, Level Up!: The Guide to Great Video Game Design
God is not interested in your art, but your heart.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Plus I have no doubt that their garden is also where my grandparents dreamed—for a better life of equality for their grandchildren and future generations. As people rooted in their faith, they probably did a lot of praying here as well, that God would deliver us all to prosperity and peace beyond this plot of land.
— Deborah L. Parker, Tools to Cultivate the Promised Land: Working Wisdom from My Grandparents' Garden
Don’t stoop, don’t stop & don’t be tired in front of any circumstances; with continuous efforts & self introspection aim so high that shall take you to the top of the world
— Vitthal Mane
I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.
— Giordano Bruno
As the saturating colors of sun-life fade from sight, the ominous moon reaches out its long arm and applies the dark dyes of night.
— Daniel J. Rice, This Side of a Wilderness
yes, writing is mostly a dream, but angels visit in dreams
— John Geddes
There is no seamen in the world who prefers a slow ship to a fast one. The painters painted better, the cooks took a little more time with the meals, and the technicians tightened the bolts just a little more. Their ship was no longer a cripple, and pride broke out in the crew like a rainbow after a summer shower.
— Tom Clancy, Clear and Present Danger
Long-term solutions are more attractive and cause much less controversy than short-term solutions, which will affect people who are still alive and voting.
— George Friedman, The Next Decade: What the World Will Look Like
The great presidents never forget the principle of the republic and seek to preserve and enhance them – in the long run– without undermining the needs of the moment. Bad presidents simply do what is expedient, heedless of principles. But the worst presidents are those who adhere to the principles regardless of what the fortunes of the moment demand.
— George Friedman, The Next Decade: What the World Will Look Like
When you look at the mirror, the person you see will be determined by thevision you have, your boldness and the risk you are prepared to take. It is as simple as that.
— Aji R Michael
He (Newt Gingrich as a freshman congressman) was both passionate about his goals and coldly analytical in his means.
— Thomas E. Mann, It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the Politics of Extremism
Be dissatisfied with what is, but remain visionary of what can be done.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
We are the authors of our destinies. No one can see the vision any clearer, believe in and work any harder to make it a reality more than the visionary.
— Nike Campbell-Fatoki
Time is the moving image of eternity.
— Plato
Thomas Builds-the-Fire closed his eyes and told this story:“I remember when I had this dream that told me to go to Spokane, to stand by the falls in the middle of the city and wait for a sign. I knew I had to go there but I didn’t have a car. Didn’t have a license. I was only thirteen. So I walked all the way, took me all day, and I finally made it to the falls. I stood there for an hour waiting. Then your dad came walking up. ‘What the hell are you doing here? He asked me. I said, ‘waiting for a vision.’ Then your father said, ‘All you’re going to get here is mugged.’ So he drove me to Denny’s, bought me dinner, and then drove me home to the reservation. For a long time I was mad because I thought my dreams had lied to me. But they didn’t. Your dad was my vision. ‘Take care of each other’ is what my dreams were saying. ‘Take care of each other.
— Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
And so people ask God for signs and wonders. Yet when signs are given and wonders are performed, most can't even see them! I therefore believe that it's not signs people should be asking God for; but you should be asking God for Sight!
— C. JoyBell C.
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It’s got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.
— Theodore Hesburgh
Every Vision has its own rainbow.
— Vikrmn, 10 Alone
Having a Great Ambition is also a Meditation. When our efforts are focussed sincerely, even during sleep, our brains will work on it, in the form of Dreams.
— Dinesh Kumar Radhakrishnan
Grounded leaders are present for others, operate with fortitude, and influence with the full impact of their vision and strength.
— Catherine Robinson-Walker, Leading Valiantly in Healthcare: Four Steps to Sustainable Success
At this point, the sequence of my memories is disrupted.I sank into a chaos of brief, incoherent and bizarre hallucinations, in which the grotesque and the horrible kept close company. Prostrate, as if I were being garrotted by invisible cords, I floundered in anguish and dread, oppressively ridden by the most unbridled nightmares. A whole series of monsters and avatars swarmed in the shadows, coming to life amid draughts of sulphur and phosphorus like an animated fresco painted on the moving wall of sleep.There followed a turbulent race through space. I soared, grasped by the hair by an invisible hand of will: an icy and powerful hand, in which I felt the hardness of precious stones, and which I sensed to be the hand of Ethal. Dizziness was piled upon dizziness in that flight to the abyss, under skies the colour of camphor and salt, skies whose nocturnal brilliance had a terrible limpidity. I was spun around and around, in bewildering confusion, above deserts and rivers. Great expanses of sand stretched into the distance, mottled here and there by monumental shadows. At times we would pass over cities: sleeping cities with obelisks and cupolas shining milk-white in the moonlight, between metallic palm-trees. In the extreme distance, amid bamboos and flowering mangroves, luminous millennial pagodas descended towards the water on stepped terraces.
— Jean Lorrain, Monsieur De Phocas
The significant thing about Edwards is the way he enters into the tradition, infuses it with his personality and makes it live. The vitality of his thought gives to its product the value of unique creation. Two qualities in him especially contribute to this result, large constructive imagination and a marvelously acute power of abstract reasoning. With the vision of the seer he looks steadily upon his world, which is the world of all time and space and existence, and sees it as a whole; God and souls are in it the great realities, and the transactions between them the great business in which all its movement is concerned.
— H. Norman Gardiner, Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards
You can be taught to write – you can’t be taught to be an artist
— John Geddes
Change will force you to step off the path, to venture from the nest, to close your eyes and dive right in, knowing that the greatest opportunities in life are found in the sink or swim, do or die moments.
— Stella Payton
Seeing within changes one's outer vision.
— Joseph Chilton Pearce
Do the thing that scares you.
— Jill Telford, Here Comes The Boo!
The goal is not to answer these questions. The goal is to be present to them with all that we are. In a way we are following the poet Rilke's advice when he counseled the young artist, "be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along into the answer.
— Adam Bucko, Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Vision for a New Generation
Poetry or science, what matters is saying it how you see it. Saying precisely what and how you saw, and no more. In science, poetry or describing a journey, accuracy is all you can do. Saying it as you saw.
— Ruth Padel, Tigers In Red Weather: A Quest for the Last Wild Tigers
Vision without implementation is counterproductive.
— Douglas B. Reeves, Transforming Professional Development Into Student Results
A common vision can unite people of very different temperaments.
— Timothy J. Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God
God's ultimate purpose for creating you is not for you to go to heaven. If the purpose for your creation was just for you to go to heaven, you will die immediately you got born-again. God's ultimate purpose for creating you is for you to influence and impact generations positively to the glory of His name.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha