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Visionary people can see future, at least in the form that they
want it to be. Visions are useful things in that they act like a guiding
beacon, pulling you always in the right direction, even through the dark
nights when the ideas dry up and your skin goes cold.
See also
attention, beginning, certainty, commitment, enthusiasm,
the future*, goals*,
leaping, passion, persistence, progress, seeing*
Quotes
‘Where there is no vision the people perish.’
— Proverbs 29:18
‘A vivid image compels the whole body to follow.’
— Aristotle
‘Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes
the time. Vision with action can change the world!’
— Joel Barker
‘Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.’
— Warren Bennis
‘A true leader is one who designs the cathedral and then shares the vision
that inspires others to build it.’
— Jan Carlzon
‘It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.’
— Lewis Carroll
‘The empires of future are empires of the mind.’
— Winston Churchill
‘It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny
can be handled at a time.’
— Winston Churchill
‘Make your plans as fantastic as you like, because 25 years from now they
will seem mediocre. Make your plans ten times as great as you first planned, and
25 years from now you will wonder why you did not make them 50 times as great.’
— Henry Curtis
‘There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis
for some other. The spirit cannot die; and man, who shall know all and shall
have wings.’
— Leonardo da Vinci
‘Between the vision and the act lies the shadow.’
— T. S. Eliot
‘Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who
looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.’
— Carl Gustav Jung
‘First I believe that this Nation should commit itself to
achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon.’
— John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(24 May, 1961)
‘The one thing worse than not being able to see is having no
vision.’
— Helen Keller
‘Capital isn’t scarce. Vision is.’
— Michael Milken
‘Vision is the blazing campfire around which people will gather. It provides
light, energy, warmth and unity.’
— Bill Newman
‘Vision is the key to understanding leadership, and real leaders have never
lost the childlike ability to dream dreams.’
— Bill Newman
‘The visionary lies to himself, the liar
only to others.’
— Friedrich Nietzsche
‘Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads
armed with nothing but their own vision.’
— Ayn Rand
‘Every man takes the limits of his field of vision for the limits of the
world.’
— Arthur Schopenhauer
‘A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see
things in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.’
— Charles M. Schwab
‘It’s not what the vision is, it’s what the vision does.’
— Peter Senge
‘Vision is the art of seeing the invisible.’
— Jonathan Swift
‘For I dip’t into the future
Far as the human eye could see,
Saw the vision of the world
And all the wonder that could be.’
— Alfred, Lord Tennyson
‘No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or
undertake any high enterprise.’
— Woodrow Wilson
‘It takes visions and courage to create. It takes faith and courage to
prove.’
— Owen D. Young
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