Vision Quotes - page 2

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision. (Helen Keller)
The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform. View quote
George Steiner
When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. View quote
Audre Lorde
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. View quote
Milton Friedman
Ultimately when I throw myself behind a movie, I have to really believe in that directors vision. View quote
Christine Vachon
I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a magazine than a small body of enlightened and responsible men administering public funds. I would rather chance my personal vision of truth striking home here and there in the chaos of publication that exists than attempt to filter it through a few sets of official, honorably public-spirited scruples. View quote
John Updike
If we had a keen vision and feeling it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of the roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity. View quote
George Eliot
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. View quote
Ayn Rand
Until I came to IBM, I probably would have told you that culture was just one among several important elements in any organization's makeup and success - along with vision, strategy, marketing, financials, and the like... I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game, it is the game. In the end, an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value. View quote
Louis V. Gerstner
I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute. The idea that the church can have no influence or no involvement in the operation of the state is absolutely antithetical to the objectives and vision of our country. View quote
Rick Santorum
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)
I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision. View quote
Carl Sandburg
The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring. View quote
Edward Hopper
When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation; he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems. View quote
Marvin Minsky
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. View quote
Florence Scovel Shinn
With the supermarket as our temple and the singing commercial as our litany, are we likely to fire the world with an irresistible vision of America's exalted purpose and inspiring way of life? View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
Knowledge is love and light and vision. View quote
Helen Keller
The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision. View quote
Helen Keller
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision. View quote
Helen Keller
Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision. (Penn Jillette)
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. View quote
Thucydides
If then, at this great distance, our human vision can discern that sight, why, pray, are we to think that the divine splendor of the stars can be cast into darkness? View quote
Vitruvius
Astronomers have a common ground for discussion with musicians in the harmony of the stars and musical concords in tetrads and triads of the fourth and the fifth, and with geometricians in the subject of vision; and in all other sciences many points, perhaps all, are common so far as the discussion of them is concerned. But the actual undertaking of works which are brought to perfection by the hand and its manipulation is the function of those who have been specially trained to deal with a single art. View quote
Vitruvius
Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture. View quote
Muhammad Iqbal