"Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly."

Mann, Louis L. on vision   

"We lift ourselves by our thought. We climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always everywhere."

Marden, Orison Swett on vision   

"There are lone figures armed only with ideas, sometimes with just one idea, who blast away whole epochs in which we are enwrapped like mummies. Some are powerful enough to resurrect the dead. Some steal on us unawares and put a spell over us which it takes centuries to throw off. Some put a curse on us, for our stupidity and inertia, and then it seems as if God himself were unable to lift it."

Miller, Henry on vision   

"In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on vision   

"Some men see things as they are and say, Why? I of dream things that never were, and say, Why not?"

Shaw, George Bernard on vision
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"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."

Starr, Pamela Vaull on vision
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"Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be."

Stevenson, Adlai E. on vision   

"Vision is the art of seeing things invisible."

Swift, Jonathan on vision
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"I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision."

Thoreau, Henry David on vision   

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"The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing -- where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do."

Unknown, Source on vision   

"Dwell in though upon the Grandest, And the Grandest you shall see; Fix your mind upon the Highest, And the Highest you shall be."

Unknown, Source on vision   

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on vision
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"Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works."

Woolf, Virginia on writers and writing   

"A writer and nothing else; a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right."

Hutchens, John K. on writers and writing   

"His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language."

Wilde, Oscar on writers and writing   

"Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use."

Twain, Mark on writers and writing
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"The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him."

Baldwin, James on writers and writing
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"Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about."

Auden, W. H. on writers and writing
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"So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on time
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"One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on time
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"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment."

Thoreau, Henry David on present
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"Do what you love. Know you own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still."

Thoreau, Henry David on passion
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"Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer."

Wilde, Oscar on dream
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"How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!"

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on youth
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"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

Wilde, Oscar on dream
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"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them. Disagree with them. Glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world
Are the ones who do."

Apple Computer on genius
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"A genius is one who can do anything except make a living."

Adams, Joey Lauren on genius
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"It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women."

Alcott, Louisa May on genius   

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"We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later."

Aragon, Louis on genius
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"There is no great genius without a mixture of madness."

Aristotle on genius
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"One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius."

Beauvoir, Simone De on genius
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"Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks."

Beecher, Henry Ward on genius
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"Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up."

Beerbohm, Sir Max on genius
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"Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on genius
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"What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?"

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on genius
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"Since when was genius found respectable?"

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on genius
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"Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on genius
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"A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind."

Butler, Samuel on genius   

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"I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one. It is a title dearly enough bought by most men, to render it endurable, even when not quite clearly made out, which it never can be till the Posterity, whose decisions are merely dreams to ourselves, has sanctioned or denied it, while it can touch us no further."

Byron, Lord on genius
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"Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains."

Carlyle, Thomas on genius
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