Quotes about vision

"Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare."

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

Rand, Ayn on vision
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"Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom."

Robbins, Anthony on vision
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"Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition."

Sade, Marquis De on vision   

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on vision   

"Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on vision   

"Three people were at work on a construction site. All were doing the same job, but when each was asked what the job was, the answers varied. Breaking rocks, the first replied. Earning my living, the second said. Helping to build a cathedral, said the third."

Schultz, Peter on vision
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"I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man."

Schwab, Charles M. on vision   

"A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing."

Schwab, Charles M. on vision
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"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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"Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up."

Smiles, Samuel on vision   

"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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"When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority."

Swindoll, Charles on vision
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"Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits."

Terkel, Studs on vision   

"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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"It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it."

Toynbee, Arnold on vision   

"All successful people are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose."

Tracy, Brian on vision   

"It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp."

Ullman, James Ramsey on vision   

"Its marvelous what you can see when you open your eyes."

Unknown, Source on vision
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"Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision, but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope."

Unknown, Source on vision
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"To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest."

Unknown, Source on vision
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"The man with vision always goes ahead of the man with visions."

Unknown, Source on vision   

"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   

"Three levels of organizational vision: 1. The Do-able 2. The Conceivable 3. The Previously Unthinkable."

Unknown, Source on vision
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"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   

"When it comes to spotting a blonde hair on a man's coat, every wife has 20-20 vision."

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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"Better to aim at a star than shoot down a well; you'll hit higher."

Unknown, Source on vision   

"A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without a vision is drudgery. A vision with a task is the hope of the world."

Zimmerman, Donald on vision   

"Capital isn't scarce; vision is."

Walton, Sam on vision   

"If you want to look with only one eye then you will only see part of the picture."

Williams, Les on vision   

"No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise."

Wilson, Woodrow T. on vision   

"I want to use television not only to entertain, but to help people lead better lives."

Winfrey, Oprah on vision   

"Vision looks inwards and becomes duty. Vision looks outwards and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upwards and becomes faith."

Wise, Stephen S. on vision
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"To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is."

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio on vision
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"I would rather live my life than watch another person's life on T.V."

Unknown, Source on vision
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"“Watching television as a passive viewer is like going on vacation for a while, and leaving all of the doors to your house unlocked. Any crap that wants to get in - will.”"

Savalli, John Rocco on vision   

"“Remember that everything you see on television is an illusion - and you're only seeing what the magician wants you to see.”"

Savalli, John Rocco on vision