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Vision Quotes


"The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform."


"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."


"Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be."


"The only limits are, as always, those of vision."


"When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low."


"And part of my vision is to do dynamic videos for kids."


"In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director have a vision? is the story moving? etc."


"They have been deprived nutritionally, or some illness has not been picked up, or they have not been screened for vision or hearing defects, or they have not had some kind of a chronic illness or error of metabolism picked up."


"There are actually very few US politicians who have integrity and vision."


"There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph."


"The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land."


"They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve."


"I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child."


"Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity."


"After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation what living in freedom means - and that if we stand together, we can accomplish anything."


"Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world."


"I have lived in the pursuit of a vision, both personal and social. Personal: to care for what is noble, for what is beautiful, for what is gentle; to allow moments of insight to give wisdom at more mundane times. Social: to see in imagination the society that is to be created, where individuals grow freely, and where hate and greed and envy die because there is nothing to nourish them. These things I believe, and the world, for all its horrors, has left me unshaken."


"God determines the goals of the prosperity before giving prosperity to His children."


"Moderates shouldn't be nervous about Newt because he has a vision, he's laid it forward. He's fundamentally leading us in the way that middle class Americans want to go."


"I grew up in the West, grew up on the land, was educated as a geologist. And I came here with a vision of what it is we ought to be doing."


"Man's mind is a coast of great monuments, the source of wild and complex dreams and accomplishments that physical eyes have not seen."


"It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin."


"For me it's all about personal vision; is there something about a subject that uniquely speaks to me."


"The Christians and the world have totally different goals."


"Because the mask is your face, the face is a mask, so I'm thinking of the face as a mask because of the way I see faces is coming from an African vision of the mask which is the thing that we carry around with us, it is our presentation, it's our front, it's our face."


"Florida is a place of unparalleled diversity of backgrounds, experiences and vision. It makes our culture unique, but it can also make it difficult to define a common identity and create a sense of community that reaches beyond our neighborhoods to all corners of our state."


"Bertelsmann understood our vision when they first invested in us... They still believe in that vision."


"You have a class of investors and you have a class of speculators. The speculators historically haven't been big enough to cause the investors to doubt the long-term vision of stock."


"I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails."


"The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs."


"Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression."


"If Turkey is prepared to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, then its leaders can proceed immediately to direct dialogue with its counterparts in Armenia to define a common vision for the future."


"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."


"I think all photographers fit their vision to their personality."


"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world."


"For the resolving powers of our scientific instruments decide, at a given moment, of the size and the vision of our Universe, and of the image we then make of ourselves."


"All your losses will be made up to you in the resurrection, provided you continue faithful. By the vision of the Almighty I have seen it."


"Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director."


"Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision."
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