Personal Vision Quotes

• Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Leadership, Perseverance

  "Speed, Simplicity, Self-Confidence". Interview with Noel Tichy and Ram Charan, hbr.org. September/October 1989.

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• All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Inspirational, Success, Dream

  The Seven Pillars of Wisdom suppressed introductory chapter (1926).

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• To come from no voice, no power, and to be able to achieve what I have means that only my own personal vision holds me back.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Confidence, Mean, Voice

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  Begin with the end in mind.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Success, Determination

  Stephen R. Covey (2000). “Vision: Defining Your Destiny in Life”, Franklincovey

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• Always begin with the end in mind.

  Ellen Muth

  Goal, Mind, Planning

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• The dreamers of the day are dangerous... for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Dream, Eye, Vision

  The Seven Pillars of Wisdom suppressed introductory chapter (1926).

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• A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

  Ralph Nader

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Personal Vision is often the catalyst for wise decisions.

  Andy Stanley

  Wise, Decision, Vision

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• The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Art, History, Humanity

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• Personal mastery is the discipline of continually clarifying and deepening our personal vision, of focusing our energies, of developing patience, and of seeing reality objectively.

  Peter Senge

  Reality, Personal Mastery, Discipline

  Peter M Senge (2010). “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition”, p.14, Random House

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• Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

  Edward Hopper

  Art, Expression, Vision

  Edward Hopper, Hayward Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art (1981). “Edward Hopper, 1882-1967: Hayward Gallery, London, 11 February to 29 March 1981 : a selection from the exhibition Edward Hopper, the art and the artist held at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York from 16 September 1980 to 25 January 1981”

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• My point is that the great challenge of an artist is to balance those two things: to be strong enough to have your own personal vision that you will put on the page or the canvas or the screen, no matter what people say, but it requires a radical sensitivity. You have to be completely open to what the world is telling you, to what your audience tells you. And balancing those two things is nearly impossible.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Strong, Artist, Two

  Interview with Malcolm Gladwell, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 13, 2017.

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• A work of art is itself an object, first of all, and so manipulation is unavoidable: it's a prerequisite. But I needed the greater objectivity of the photograph in order to correct my own way of seeing: for instance, if I draw an object from nature, I start to stylize and to change it in accordance with my personal vision and my training. But if I paint from a photograph, I can forget all the criteria that I get from these sources. I can paint against my will, as it were. And that, to me, felt like an enrichment.

  Gerhard Richter

  Photography, Art, Objectivity

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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• I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a magazine than a small body of enlightened and responsible men administering public funds. I would rather chance my personal vision of truth striking home here and there in the chaos of publication that exists than attempt to filter it through a few sets of official, honorably public-spirited scruples.

  John Updike

  Art, Book, Home

  John Updike's tstimony given before the Subcommittee on Select Education of the House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor in Boston, Massachusetts, January 30, 1978.

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• If you accept the idea that photographers, or some of them, are actually artists, then you have to look at their work less as a document of something than as a personal vision of the world.

  Tod Papageorge

  Artist, Ideas, Vision

  Interview with Alec Soth, alecsothblog.wordpress.com. July 11, 2007.

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

  Leonard Nimoy

  Inspiration, Vision, Speak

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstones of our judgement. The artist... faithful to his personal vision of reality, becomes the last champion of the individual mind and sensibility against an intrusive society and an offensive state.

  John F. Kennedy

  Art, Reality, Faithful

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• While photography is the easiest medium in which to be competent, it is the hardest in which to develop an idiosyncratic personal vision.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Vision, Hardest

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• The artist, viewing his fellows through his personal vision, has through the ages attempted to portray what he sees and to present his understanding of it. Censorship in his case has perpetrated heavy and sometimes reprehensible blunders.

  Hollis Alpert

  Artist, Understanding, Vision

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• My advice to any budding artist is never to be satisfied with imitating others. This is but a means to an end. A serious artist will work with intensity to discover themselves, their own personal vision. I believe this is a fundamental aspect of the creative path.

  Michael Kenna

  Believe, Mean, Artist

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• All my work at Armani is based primarily on my personal vision of style, and while I differentiate between the look and mood of my various labels, I am never overly concerned with being 'on trend.'

  Giorgio Armani

  Style, Vision, Labels

  Interview with Aaron Howes, www.highsnobiety.com. October 5, 2016.

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• Every stimulus becomes an opportunity to find fresh ways to express your personal vision.

  Alexandra Stoddard

  Opportunity, Vision, Way

  Alexandra Stoddard (1990). “Daring to be Yourself”, Doubleday Books

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• In the media, a reviewer has his personal vision but it's passed along to a million readers or whatever. He might think that this particular song sounds like Jo Blow. Or like a Bo Diddley record that he heard six years ago. But the artist who made the record may never have even heard the Bo Diddley song. We all respond differently.

  Van Morrison

  Song, Artist, Blow

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

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• It is the unexpected and the surprise quality of a personal vision, rather than the emotion, which make people respond to a photograph.

  Alexey Brodovitch

  Photography, People, Vision

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• True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. That new, that personal, vision is attained only by looking long enough at the object represented to make it the writer's own; and the mind which would bring this secret gem to fruition must be able to nourish it with an accumulated wealth of knowledge and experience.

  Edith Wharton

  Wealth Of Knowledge, Long, Mind

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