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Vision Quotes
"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."
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"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."
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"The one who cannot see your vision will be blinded by your mission."
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"It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis."
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"The writers I respect the most had an undying commitment to a vision."
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"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."
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"Let's use the energy of this historic year to propel us toward our shared vision of a greater Boston."
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"I think all photographers fit their vision to their personality."
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"Do not allow the vision to die in your heart."
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"But it is true that sometimes an enveloping darkness aids one to clearer vision; as in a panorama building, for example, where the obscurity about the entrance prepares one better for the climax, and gives the scene depicted a more real and vivid appearance."
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"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."
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"The only limits are, as always, those of vision."
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"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."
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"I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens."
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"John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university."
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"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."
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"There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book."
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"True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision."
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"The Christians and the world have totally different goals."
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"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."
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"And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts."
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"Other men look up and down, left and right; but men like us are different. We are visionaries."
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"The more boundless your vision, the more real you are."
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"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."
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"Imagine our imaginations were limited only to the limitless. Still, it wouldn't matter without a motivation to move."
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"One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance."
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"I'd like to see North America become a dry, sunny, sandy region inhabited mainly by lizards, buzzards and a modest human population - about 25 million would be plenty - of pastoralists and prospectors (prospecting for truth), gathering once a year in the ruins of ancient, mysterious cities for great ceremonies of music, art, dance, poetry, joy, faith and renewal. That's my dream of the American future. Like most such dreams, it will probably come true. That is why I'm still an optimist."
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"Your promise land should be your priority."
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"Man's mind is a coast of great monuments, the source of wild and complex dreams and accomplishments that physical eyes have not seen."
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"Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be."
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"Fortunately, God made all varieties of people with a wide variety of interests and abilities. He has called people of every race and color who have been hurt by life in every manner imaginable. Even the scars of past abuse and injury can be the means of bringing healing to another. What wonderful opportunities to make disciples!"
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"Well, it seems to me a scientist has need for both vision and confidence."
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"God determines the goals of the prosperity before giving prosperity to His children."
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"The first step to accomplishing the impossible is to achieve it in your mind."
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