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  You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

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

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• I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

  Henry James

  Birthday, Regret, Thinking

  Letter to Hugh Walpole, 21 Aug. 1913

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• Don't walk through life just playing football. Don't walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone's life, that's the ultimate vision, that's the ultimate goal - bottom line.

  Ray Lewis

  Inspirational, Football, Integrity

  "NFL All-Pro Ray Lewis". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 11, 2011.

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• As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.

  Bruce Lee

  Faith, Confidence, Spiritual

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• We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies - images of potential tomorrows.

  Alvin Toffler

  Dream, Needs, Tomorrow

  alvin toffler (1970). “future shock”

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• The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Life, Faith, Gratitude

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• Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Inspirational, Leadership, Alchemy

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• God gives us the vision, then He expects us to walk in obedience. As we do, the resources we need come to us.

  John C. Maxwell

  Giving, Needs, Obedience

  "Turning Vision Into Reality". Enrichment Interview, enrichmentjournal.ag.org. January 2000.

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• Positive images of the future are a powerful and magnetic force... They draw us on and energize us, give us courage and will to take on important initiatives. Negative images of the future also have a magnetism. They pull the spirit downward in the path of despair.

  William James

  Powerful, Giving, Important

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• If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Happiness, Happy, Military

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• A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future.

  Denis Waitley

  Dream, Creative, Break Out

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• Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.

  Plotinus

  Beautiful, Eye, Soul

  Plotinus (1952). “The Six Enneads”, p.48, Hayes Barton Press

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• Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

  James Lane Allen

  Positive, Success, Dream

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• Vision motivates, sustains and dispels doubt.

  Thomas Young

  Doubt

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• The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Integrity, Character, Men

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• I had always made pictures as I thought I saw the world, focusing on what lay in front, but this is not how one sees the world. It only frames the centre and cuts off the lateral vision, which lies unfocused. Now I found that I could turn my eye to the adjacent field of vision, seeing another focus, an extension which I added to the original. Instead of stopping at two focuses, I looked further to the side, adding another and yet another.

  Joseph Plaskett

  Lying, Eye, Cutting

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• To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wind, Doe, Purpose

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• As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

  William Blake

  Eye, Men, Invisible

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.793, Oxford University Press, USA

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• If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

  John F. Kennedy

  Art, Umpires, Roots

  Speech at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, October 26, 1963.

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• I discover vision, not as a 'thinking about seeing,' to use Descartes expression, but as a gaze at grips with a visible world, and that is why for me there can be another's gaze.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Thinking, Expression, Phenomenology

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty (2002). “Phenomenology of Perception”, p.409, Psychology Press

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• A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Success, Dream, Business

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• I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Hero, Giving

  Henry David Thoreau, Carl Hovde (1980). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.140, Princeton University Press

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• True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

  Edith Wharton

  Literature, Originality, New Vision

  Edith Wharton (2014). “The Writing of Fiction”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• The vision is really about empowering workers giving them all the information about what’s going on so they can do a lot more than they’ve done in the past.

  Bill Gates

  Past, Giving, Empowering

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• The art of the poem nowadays is something unstable; but at least the construction of the poem should make sense; you should know where you stand. Many questions haven't been answered as yet. Our poets may be wrong; but what can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.

  William Carlos Williams

  Art, Past, Trying

  "The Paris Review : Writers at Work", 3rd series, Viking Penguin, (p. 29), April 1962.

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