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Vision Quotes


"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."


"Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present."


"The writers I respect the most had an undying commitment to a vision."


"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."


"I was a little lacking in vision as mayor - I failed to understand the significance that housing and the revitalization of housing means for a city."


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


"Let's use the energy of this historic year to propel us toward our shared vision of a greater Boston."


"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."


"There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet."


"And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts."


"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."


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


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


"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."


"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."


"There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book."


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


"If you're doing something new you've got to have a vision. You've got to have a perspective. You've got to have some north star you're aiming for, and you just believe somehow you'll get there, which kind of gets to the passion point."


"Well, it seems to me a scientist has need for both vision and confidence."


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


"Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed political vision and was very spiritual in his way, and there are many biologists and physicists of the first order who are like that."


"Do not allow the vision to die in your heart."


"The more boundless your vision, the more real you are."


"Your promise land should be your priority."


"One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance."


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


"Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it."


"When I'm building my dome in my chapel, and I had a vision - I've worked on perpetual motion and I haven't never give it up yet. I still think it could be done, perpetual motion. I had a vision of a un resist able windmill."


"The first step to accomplishing the impossible is to achieve it in your mind."


"I do not have, nor do I believe I have seen, a vision capacious and convincing enough to propound as an organizing principle for the next phase in the law of our Constitution."


"See the bigger picture of yours and refuse the passport size creature that people think you are! Your nature is large, go for it. Feel free to wake up and print your bigger picture!"
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