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• If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

  George Eliot

  Heart, Squirrels, History

  "Middlemarch". Volume 1,

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• Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Cynicism, Cynic, Ought

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 63

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• Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  "Signs of the Times". Essay by Thomas Carlyle, www.victorianweb.org. 1829.

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• We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Future, Understanding, Path

  Speech in Richmond, Virginia, September 20, 1952.

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• There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.

  August Strindberg

  Eye, Poison, Blind

  August Strindberg (1983). “Strindberg, Five Plays”, p.296, Univ of California Press

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• All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Future, Amendments, Situation

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• Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Truth, Integrity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.70, Xist Publishing

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• Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion.

  Brande Roderick

  Mean, Enough, Ends

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• Vision looks upward and becomes faith.

  Stephen Samuel Wise

  Faith, Looks, Look Up

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• Vision looks inward and becomes duty.

  Stephen Samuel Wise

  Inward, Looks, Duty

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• Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.

  Stephen Samuel Wise

  Looks, Aspiration

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• A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Determination

  "Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living" edited by John Little, (p. 121), 2000.

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

  Lillie Langtry

  Memories, Moving Forward, Yesterday

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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 accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Dream, Firsts, Accomplish

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• The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.

  Pierre Bonnard

  Precision, Seeing, Uniqueness

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• Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Science, Technology, Possible And Impossible

  Letter to the editor, Science, 19 Jan. 1968.

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• Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

  Louisa May Alcott (2009). “Work: A Story of Experience: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.305, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Climbs, Lifts, New Vision

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• A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.

  David Gergen

  Inspirational, Leadership, People

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• Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.

  Bruce Barton

  Change, Fear, Errors

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• You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.

  Ken Kesey

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

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• Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

  Henry Miller

  Gratitude, Time, Perspective

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.356, New Directions Publishing

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• Knowledge is love and light and vision.

  Helen Keller

  Christian, Education, Knowledge

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.16, Om Books International

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  The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Peace

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