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• Our vision is more obstructed by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge.

  Krister Stendahl

  Education, Parenting, Thinking

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• Principles are deep fundamental truths... lightly interwoven threads running with exactness, consistency, beauty and strength through the fabric of life.

  Stephen Covey

  Running, Fabric Of Life, Consistency

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• Too many young people are being taught to give up their dreams before they have any experience attempting to pursue them.

  Robert Fritz

  Dream, Giving Up, Teaching

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• The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Friendship, Work, Voice

  Radio address on his 90th birthday, 8 Mar. 1931

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• Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So a man sometimes covers up the entire disk of eternity with a dollar, and quenches transcendent glories with a little shining dust.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Stars, Eye, Dust

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 20), 1895.

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• The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the character of seers. The Elgin Marbles and a decision of John Marshall are valued for the same reason. What we feel in them is a painstaking submission to facts beyond the author's control, and to ideas imposed on him by his vision. So with Beethoven's Symphonies, with Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations - with any conceivable output of the human mind of which you approve. You love them because you say, These things were not made, they were seen.

  John Jay Chapman

  Character, Men, Ideas

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• When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.

  William Blake

  Fire, Sun, Host

  'A Vision of the Last Judgement' (1810) in 'MS Note-Book' p. 95

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• To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership-not only on the movie set where I learned it, but everywhere.

  Ronald Reagan

  Leadership, Learning, Successful

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• Work without vision is drudgery. Vision without work is dreaming. Work coupled with vision is destiny.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Dream, Destiny, Plus

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• For visions come not to polluted eyes.

  Mary Howitt

  Eye, Wise Words

  ..... Fisher, Fisher, Son, & Co, Mary Howitt, L.E.L. (1841). “Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap-book: With Poetical Illustrations”, p.23

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• The vision is really about empowering workers, giving them all the

  Bill Gates

  Giving, Empowering, Workers

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• When you are working well with your
  energy, you are also making the best
  expression of your personal power... By
  reading your own energy, by becoming
  aware of the lens through which you see
  your world, you can change your mind and change your life.

  Caroline Myss

  Change, Reading, Power

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• I use photography as a way to help me understand why I am here. The camera helps me to see.

  Trent Parke

  Photography, Understanding, Cameras

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• Love and fear represent two different lenses through which to view the world. Which I choose to use will determine what I think I see.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Inspirational, Fear

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Apr 17, 2012

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• We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Focus, Viewpoints

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.186, Courier Corporation

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• There are a lot of cameramen but not so many photographers. And a lot of cameramen attack from a technical approach without much imagination. They look, but they don't see.

  Gordon Willis

  Photography, Imagination, Looks

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• Alone-in moments of prayer or meditation, or simply in stillness-we breathe more deeply, see more fully, hear more keenly. We notice more, and in the process, we return to what is sacred.

  Katrina Kenison

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Prayer

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• Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.

  Anthony Doerr

  Inspirational, Eye, Forever

  Anthony Doerr (2014). “All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

  David Bailey

  Photography, Art, Learning

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  How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

  Satchel Paige

  Happy Birthday, Baseball, Fun

  Quoted in Garson Kanin, It Takes a Long Time to Become Young (1978)

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  Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball

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• Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Patience, Wisdom

  1902 The Story of My Life.

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• Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.

  John Ruskin

  Positive, Dream, Inspiration

  Vice-Chancellor, Professor Paul Curran's speech at The Chancellor's Dinner, Mansion House, www.city.ac.uk. April 23, 2014.

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• Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with even more resistance. Products, services, career paths... whatever it is, the forces for mediocrity will align to stop you, forgiving no errors and never backing down until it's over

  Seth Godin

  Careers, Errors, Effort

  Seth Godin (2012). “Whatcha Gonna Do with That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012”, p.27, Penguin

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• Because I believe psychedelics are a kind of higher dimensional sectioning of reality, I think they give the kind of stereoscopic vision necessary to hold the entire hologram of what's happening in your mind. The old paradigm is gone.

  Terence McKenna

  Believe, Thinking, Reality

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