Best 3354 quotes in «vision quotes» category

Any collective struggle that matters has to embrace education as the center of politics and the source of an embryonic vision of the good life outside of the imperatives of predatory capitalism.

Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness of it. But this is truest of the face of an infant. I consider that to be one kind of vision, as mystical as any.

Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny.

Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead.

Any regeneration project that fails to put environmental and social benefits at its very heart is unlikely to achieve anything more than a very short-lived spasm of spurious prosperity

A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.

A person may be totally unimaginative and have the social vision of a mole, and we still call him a decent man.

A person who can look inside into his soul sees then with his vision one and all standing outside around in support to him that they are only as truthful and trustworthy to him as he to all others.

A powerful hand lens [Eschenback Leutchlupe] with a focused beam of light opens up an entire world below the threshold of the ordinary experience of seeing.

Apollo wasn't just about sending people into space. It transformed so much of our economy. From our education system to so many of the things we use today, it was a vision that led to the total transformation of the planet.

Apple is so focused on its vision that it does things in a very careful, deliberate way.

A pivot is a change in strategy without a change in vision.

A productive mistake is: (1) made in the service of mission and vision; (2) acknowledged as a mistake; (3) learned from; (4) considered valuable; (5) shared for the benefit of all.

A reminder (Japan's earthquake and tsunami) how flimsy our sophisticated modern world really is

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

Art is a person's private vision expressed in aesthetic forms.

A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.

Artists never make wars. They are too busy making life out of the matter of their visions.

A photograph is not merely a substitute for a glance. It is a sharpened vision. It is the revelation of new and important facts.

As a child, I watched 'Dallas' and that was my vision for my life for as long as I could remember.

Art is the beginning of vision into the realm of eternal life.

A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries.

As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things.

A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.

Art should never be sociological; it has got to be timeless. It's got to be your vision and how you can represent the world you see.

Artists paint not for their own enjoyment but to share their vision with others.

as a physician I examine the dying planet as I do a dying patient. The earth has a natural system of interacting homeostatic mechanisms similar to the human body's. If one system is diseased, like the ozone layer, then other systems develop abnormalities in function - the crops will die, the plankton will be damaged, and the eyes of all creatures on the planet will become diseased and vision impaired.

A script like Nightcrawler gives me an opportunity to truly realize a vision thats mine, which is exciting.

As an actor, you're only one little piece of the puzzle; you're fulfilling someone else's vision. If you're involved earlier on, you're kind of creating your own.

As an actor, I'm limited to re-in acting someone else's vision or portraying a fictitious character.

As for my style, for my vision of the cinema, editing is not simply one aspect; it's the aspect.

As God talked with Arjuna, so will He talk with you. As He lifted up the spirit and consciousness of Arjuna, so will He uplift you. As he granted Arjuna supreme spiritual vision, so will He confer enlightenment on you.

As important as the funds are, the vision is the greatest gift.

As I lay asleep in Italy There came a voice from over the Sea, And with great power it forth led me To walk in the visions of Poesy.

A single vision is more perfect than a committee vision because with everyone having their say, it becomes compromised.

Ask yourself, 'What is obstructing my vision?' What is the difference between seeing and looking?

As long as people are living their truth or their vision, whether they're activists or not, that's the important thing.

At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.

As other perceptions arise...the total vision of human possibilities enlarges and is transformed.

A team aligned behind a vision will move mountains. Sell them on your roadmap and don't compromise - care about the details, the fit and finish.

A third or more of the brain is devoted to visual processing, not true of any other sense. We have color vision and it is truly binocular. This sophistication is not true of other senses, such as smell, where many genes are actually mutated and no longer work.

At last a vision has been vouchsafed to us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good.... With this vision we approach new affairs. Our duty is to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to correct the evil without impairing the good, to purify and humanize every process of our common life, without weakening or sentimentalizing it.

At one point consciousness-altering devices like the microscope and telescope were criminalized for exactly the same reasons that psychedelic plants were banned in later years. They allow us to peer into bits and zones of Chaos.

A truly free society is based on a vision of respect for people and what they value.

A terrible depression yesterday. Visions of my life petering out into a kind of soft-brained stupor from lack of use.

As we respond with caring and vision to all work, we develop our capacity to respond fully to all of life. Every action generates positive energy which can be shared with others.

At stake are two different visions of faith, the Church of Caesar, powerful and rich; and the Church of Christ - loving, poor and spiritually rich.

At some point he has to show that he has a vision of a better way. He can't just say 'The future is bleak, follow me.' Because no one will.

At the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values, and your vision, and the life experiences that make you who you are.

A vivid image compels the whole body to follow.