Henry A. Kissinger Quotes About Vision

Quotes about: Vision

• The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. The public does not fully understand the world into which it is going. Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision. Those leaders who do not are ultimately judged failures, even though they may be popular at the moment.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  People, Leader, Vision

• The reason prophets are so rarely honored in their own country is that their role is to transcend the limits of their contemporaries' experience and imagination. They achieve recognition only when their vision has been turned into experience - in short, when it is too late to benefit from their foresight.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, Imagination, Vision

• Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Inspirational, Leadership, Vision

• The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Believe, Men, Two

  "The White House Years". Book by Henry Kissinger, 1979.

• The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Bridges, Vision, Gaps

• The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. Each side should know that frequently uncertainty, compromise, and incoherence are the essence of policymaking. Yet each tends to ascribe to the other a consistency, foresight, and coherence that its own experience belies. Of course, over time, even two armed blind men can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Believe, Men, Essence

  "The White House Years". Book by Henry Kissinger, 1979.

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