Henry Kissinger Quotes

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

Henry Kissinger

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• I always try to keep a little bit of space in the year to work with other people. Because I love doing musicals, films and plays - projects where I'm not in charge, where I've got somebody else telling me what to do and I have to work with their vision.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • People
  • Work
  • Space

• I get nervous before openings or premieres or when someone's reading a new script, and I get nervous when my daughter isn't in my immediate field of vision.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Reading
  • Vision
  • Daughter

• Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • World
  • Country
  • Change

• I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Vision
  • Choice
  • Tradition

• When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-'90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people's ideas.

  

  Yves Behar
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Vision

• Put simply, my vision for AOL is to build the largest and most sophisticated global advertising network while we grow the size and engagement of our worldwide audience.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Vision
  • Grow
  • Advertising

• Sometimes for a lot of new artists, they don't have a vision, really, or know what they want to say; it's kind of drawn out for them. But me, because I'm such a transcendental thinker, it's always like a journey and an adventure with each project. It's like going through a different doorway each time.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Time
  • Different
  • Vision

• The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Imagination
  • Vision
  • Product

• Not everybody's gonna get your vision.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Vision
  • Everybody
  • Your

• Hardcore fans have a vision in their head, and if they look at your cosplay of it, you may not fit their vision.

  

  Yaya Han
  • May
  • Vision
  • Look

• I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Up
  • Vision
  • Walk

• I believe we can do more in making the President's vision for space exploration a reality by awarding cash prizes to encourage greater participation of the private sector in the national space program.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Believe
  • Reality
  • Space

• My vision is that our country should be integrated in the EU, to transfer a part of our independence there. It is also our duty to do it, if we want to establish trade and a sound economy. This is the vision that I am working on and I will continue to work in the future.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • Work
  • Country
  • Future

• When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • People
  • Fall
  • Vision

• If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • World
  • Real
  • Fighting

• Everyone has a warped vision of Hollywood and what success in Hollywood is like.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Success
  • Vision
  • Hollywood

• The TUC's new slogan 'a future that works' sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapid deficit reduction is failing in its own terms, but even at its best it is short-sighted, muddle-through politics with no vision of a new economic model.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Future
  • Best
  • Challenge

• Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • World
  • Society
  • Political

• In the '60s when I was a student, there was this campaign to destroy 75 percent of the old buildings in Paris, replacing them with modern architecture. I realized this as a dangerous utopia. This modern vision did not understand the richness of the city. Thankfully, such destruction did not happen.

  

  Christian de Portzamparc
  • City
  • Vision
  • Architecture

• It's depend of the communication, I think it's very important to let the director make his own vision of the character, not making a studio movie. Look the Dark Knight it's totally the vision of Nolan.

  

  Xavier Gens
  • Important
  • Character
  • Movie

• It's kind of an art, going out and performing. I'd like fans to remember me as a guy who would go out and entertain them, give them quality matches, and not just the same old garbage every week.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Art
  • Remember
  • Guy

• Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Know
  • Enough
  • Afraid

• I haven't read anything but regurgitated rumors. Nothing new, and nothing true.

  

  Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains
  • People
  • Havens
  • Rumor

• The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

  

  Henry Kissinger
  • Superpowers
  • Vision