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Vision Quotes


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


"What's important for me is to communicate the vision that I have in sound with the audience that's hearing it."


"As for the long-term future: I am prepared to see in this a vision, not a mystical way but in a realistic way, of a population exchange on a much more important scale and including larger territories."


"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."


"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."


"I can see now a vision emerging how Canada is going to profit in the future from our Arctic resources without destroying the environment on which it is all based."


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


"My feeling about him is that the America that we have today, the freedoms we enjoy and the privileges we have, are really the reflection of Abe Lincoln's convictions, his vision, and his toughness."


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


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


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


"Al Gore clearly has the vision... it's a much better vision than that of George W. Bush."


"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."


"Imagination doesn't always mean looking outside of the box, but taking a closed box and seeing a different world from within it."


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


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


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


"Think global; Think big! Think of planting a seed for unborn generations to taste; Think of making a shade that will provide comfort to others. If what you enjoy now appeals to you, thank God for the life of those who made it happen. However, the good news is that "you too can make it happen"!"



"No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism."


"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."


"Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision."


"The sky is only the limit if you have not set your eyes on reaching the stars."


"When everybody is planting apples a visionary plants oranges."


"Build roads never seen before. Build bridges never existed before. Build a society never lived before. It is all in your hands now."


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


"Many of us in Congress have been calling on the Administration to articulate a bold mission for NASA. It seems that the President is answering that call. I wholeheartedly support his vision for going back to the moon, and from there to worlds beyond."
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