Vision Quotes - Page 13

• To believe in the things you can see and touch is no belief at all. But to believe in the unseen is both a triumph and a blessing.

  Bob Proctor

  Believe, Blessing, Unseen

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Mar 31, 2013

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• The pathway to educational excellence lies within each school.

  Terrence E. Deal

  Educational, Lying, School

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• The heart and soul of school culture is what people believe, the assumptions they make about how school works.

  Thomas J. Sergiovanni

  Believe, Heart, School

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• You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it... The vision is not so much destroyed, exactly, as it is, by the time you have finished, forgotten. It has been replaced by this changeling.

  Annie Dillard

  Thinking, Way, Forgotten

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• Were there no men of vision, all who are blind would be dead.

  Rumi

  Men, Would Be, Blind

  "Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance". Book by Rumi, translated by Camille Adams Helminsk and Kabir Helminski, 1990.

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• Receptivity requires a nimbleness, a fine-honed sensitivity in order to let one's self be the vehicle of whatever vision may emerge.

  Rollo May

  Self, Order, May

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.80, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When your eyes are tired the world is tired also. When your vision has gone no part of the world can find you. Time to go into the dark where the night has eyes to recognize its own. There you can be sure you are not beyond love.

  David Whyte

  Tired, Eye, Dark

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• We work for that part of our vision which is uncompleted.

  Frederick Sommer

  Photography, Photographer

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• As painters...we must always remember that our precious poetic visions and spiritual insights will remain forever locked within us until we can boil them down to a complex arrangement of a few hundred or possibly even thousands of brushstrokes.

  Richard Schmid

  Spiritual, Forever, Remember

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• No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Noses

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• Our first journey is to find that special place for us.

  Florence Nightingale

  Journey, Destiny, Special

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• Consciousness is the grave of things, the place where they cease to exist, beyond which they end. And when they have ended, it seems that they no longer have any essential existence except in the visions in me.

  Oskar Kokoschka

  Essentials, Consciousness, Ends

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• In the bedroom darkness I may visualise a way of making a painting. I can see it - if I do this and this and that and this, my God! Why haven't I seen this until now? I can hardly wait to get to the studio and make the vision real.

  Jules Olitski

  Real, Waiting, Darkness

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• Natural writers will often try to force themselves into a form - novel, story, screenplay, or poem - that is not necessarily the appropriate form for the way they see the world... if, in fact, they are writing from the artist's impulse, which is a deep, inchoate vision of some sort of order behind the apparent chaos of life on planet earth, they'll be driven then to express that vision in the creation of the object - the art object.

  Robert Olen Butler

  Art, Writing, Order

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• As an artist, my concern is toward the synthesizing of all the visual elements at my disposal - at the exclusion of none.

  Ken Danby

  Artist, Elements, Exclusion

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• The organization of light and shadow effects produce a new enrichment of vision.

  Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

  Light, Organization, Shadow

  László Moholy-Nagy, J. Paul Getty Museum (1995). “László Moholy-Nagy: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum”, p.10, Getty Publications

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• Perhaps the most important vision of all is develop a sense of self, a sense of your own destiny, a sense of unique mission and role in life.

  Stephen Covey

  Unique, Destiny, Self

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand

  Woodrow Wilson

  Spiritual Vision, Achievement, World Vision

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.15, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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  If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

  Isaac Newton

  Inspirational, Teamwork, Humility

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• America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.

  Woodrow Wilson

  4th Of July, Men, America

  Woodrow Wilson, Ray Stannard Baker, Howard Seavoy Leach (1925). “The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: College and state; educational literary and political papers (1875-1913)”

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• Every person in the organization must change inside their hearts and minds, so that they themselves become principle centred.

  Stephen Covey

  Heart, Organization, Mind

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• To see something spectacular and recognise it as a photographic possibility is not making a very big leap. But to see something ordinary, something you’d see every day, and recognize it as a photographic possibility - that is what I am interested in.

  Stephen Shore

  Photography, Ordinary, Routine

  "Stephen Shore's best shot" by Leo Benedictus, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2007.

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• A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Good Night, Dream

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.296, OUP Oxford

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• Every man builds his world in his own image; he has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. If he abdicates his power, he abdicates the status of man, and the grinding chaos of the irrational is what he achieves as his sphere of existence—by his own choice.

  Ayn Rand

  Power, Men, Escaping

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.604, Hamilton Books

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• New frameworks are like climbing a mountain - the larger view encompasses rather than rejects the more restricted view.

  Albert Einstein

  Climbing, Views, Mountain

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