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• It takes courage and skill to be unambiguous and clear.

  Peter Senge

  Skills, Clear

  Peter Senge (2012). “Schools That Learn (updated and revised second edition): A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook for Educators, Parents, and Everyone Who Cares About Education”, p.342, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.

  Charles Dickens

  Cities, Mind, Mirages

  Charles Dickens, Gillen D'Arcy Wood (2003). “A Tale of Two Cities”, p.385, Barnes & Noble

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• Vision looks inwards and becomes duty. Vision looks outwards and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upwards and becomes faith.

  Stephen Samuel Wise

  Looks, Look Up, Aspiration

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• We can no longer stand at the end of something we visualized in detail and plan backwards from that future. Instead we must stand at the beginning, clear in our mind, with a willingness to be involved in discovery... it asks that we participate rather than plan.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Discovery, Mind, Details

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• We must revolutionize our optical perception. We must remove the veil from our eyes.

  Alexander Rodchenko

  Eye, Perception, Avant Garde

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• The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Knowledge

  "János : The Story of a Doctor" by János Plesch, translated by Edward FitzGerald, 1947.

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• I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

  Helen Keller

  Happy, God, Dark

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• There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Flower, Rose

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• I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Carpe Diem, Thinking

  In John Golding Cubism (1959) p. 60

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• Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.

  Samuel Smiles

  Men, Looks, Look Up

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• When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Positive, Attitude, Optimistic

  Charles R. Swindoll (2007). “Wisdom for the Way: Wise Words for Busy People”, p.143, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.

  Paul Valery

  Photography, Names, Forget

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• Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

  Blaise Pascal

  Inspirational, Men, Infinity

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

  Ovid

  Eye, Sight, Soul

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• Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Leadership, Running, Optimistic

  2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 30 August 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

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• I can see in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.

  Helen Keller

  Dark, Golden, I Can

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• Faith is power to believe and power to see.

  Prentice Mulford

  Believe

  Prentice Mulford (2007). “Your Forces and How to Use Them”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.

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• One of the saddest things about US education is that the wisdom of our most successful teachers is lost to the profession when they retire.

  John Dewey

  Teacher, Teaching, Successful

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• If people who have to work together in an enterprise trust one another it is because they are all operating to a common set of ethical norms....such a society will be better able to innovate...since the high degree of trust will permit a wide variety of social relationships to emerge.

  Francis Fukuyama

  People, Working Together, Able

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• We imagine a school in which students and teachers excitedly and joyfully stretch themselves to their limits in pursuit of projects built on their own visions … not one that that merely succeeds in making apathetic students satisfy minimal standards.

  Seymour Papert

  Teacher, Teaching, School

  "Vision for Education: The Caperton-Papert Platform" by Seymour Papert and Gaston Caperton, www.papert.org. August 1999.

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• Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

  Martha Graham

  Inspirational, Dance, Mean

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• Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.

  Eberhard Arnold

  Teacher, Nature, Children

  Eberhard Arnold (1997). “God's Revolution: Justice, Community, and the Coming Kingdom”, p.137, The Plough Publishing House

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• The void in our society has been produced by the absence of values... we have no widespread belief in the value of participation. The rational system has made us fear standing out in any serious way.

  John Ralston Saul

  Our Society, Way, Void

  John Ralston Saul (2013). “Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West”, p.584, Simon and Schuster

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• If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Creativity, Eye

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• If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!

  Pablo Picasso

  Horse, Might, Paint

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