Vision Quotes
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As the young leaders of tomorrow, you have the passion and energy and commitment to make a difference. What I'd like to really urge you do is to have a global vision. Go beyond your country; go beyond your national boundaries
Ban Ki-moon -
My work never directly addresses the literal subject matter of the photograph, but attempts to ask questions about vision itself.
Uta Barth
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I had a vision of myself as a novelist because that was where I could be serious. I couldn't with music.
Peter Hammill -
A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.
Brian Tracy -
It is unnecessary to say that Fidel Castro possesses the high qualities of a fighter and statesman: our path, our struggle, and our triumph we owed to his vision.
Che Guevara -
The single greatest world transformation would simply be the embrace of global reasonableness and pluralistic tolerance - the global embrace of egoic-rationality (on the way to centauric vision-logic).
Ken Wilber -
Cézanne's painting is strictly painting, and its value is immense; but Van Gogh's painting has the Outsider's characteristic: it is a laboratory refuse of a man who treated his own life as an experiment in living; it faithfully records moods and developments of vision on the manner of a Bildungsroman.
Colin Wilson -
When God gives us a vision, we must transact business with Him at that point, no matter what the cost.
Oswald Chambers
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Focus on your product. A lot of people focus on the name of their brand or the legal aspects, but it's more important to create your product. It's why people join. It's your vision. Without your product, nothing is going to happen.
Payal Kadakia -
Vision with action can change the world.
John Alec Baker -
I want them to believe I have a vision for the state of New Jersey.
Jon Corzine -
I am opposed to those who have an ideological vision of immigration, and I think that, given the situation in France, it must stop.
Marine Le Pen -
Initially with The Butcher Boy, there was this kid growing up in this strange, weird environment that I remember from when I was a kid. And Patrick's vision was so complete there.
Neil Jordan -
Unlike the primate hand, the elephant's grasping organ is also its nose. Elephants use their trunks not only to reach food but also to sniff and touch it. With their unparalleled sense of smell, the animals know exactly what they are going for. Vision is secondary.
Frans de Waal
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For the makers, the paintings and engravings were visions, not representations of visions.
David Lewis-Williams -
Awakenings occur when we lose faith in the viability of our institutions and the authority of our leaders. Religious and spiritual awakening gives people a new vision of themselves, which is then transplanted into social action.
Marilyn Ferguson -
Movements of people create change - not just any one person or organization, but when lots of people are in motion around a shared vision.
Ai-jen Poo -
Fights with my father were really quite brutal. I would not live his vision. I would not become who he wanted me to be. Everything I did was criticized. I would spend three months drawing something and show him, and he would look up from his paper and just look back down. I got no approval from him for anything I did that was creative.
Kevyn Aucoin -
May God us keep From Single vision and Newton's sleep.
William Blake -
Observation is the generative act in scientific discovery. For all its aberrations, the evidence of the senses is essentially to be relied upon-provided we observe nature as a child does, without prejudices and preconceptions, but with that clear and candid vision which adults lose and scientists must strive to regain.
Peter Medawar
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Your purpose is why you you're living, your vision is how you're going to execute it.
Bob Proctor -
Vision, I say, is related to light itself. But of this sensation and the things pertaining to it, I pretend to understand but little; and since even a long time would not suffice to explain that trifle, or even to hint at an explanation, I pass over this in silence.
Galileo Galilei -
When I first started working with World Vision, I would sit down and talk with them about issues that concern any part of the world. MSF told me about what was going on in North Korea. I also support AIDS and breast cancer charities.
Alek Wek -
I think a playful critique is good for all of us, and that's basically how I see satire functioning. But I'm not interested in a kind of contemptuous satirical vision; I try always, even when I'm knowingly being satirical, to also be humane, but I mean, let's face it: there's plenty in American life to make fun of, and we all participate in it.
Jennifer Egan