"The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land."
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"All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time."
"I believe in truths, but I don't believe in the Truth. Furthermore, I think that vision of an underlying Truth, with as capital T, that scientists are privy to, has been a very counterproductive vision. It has served scientists very well, but what it has done, above all, is encloses the world of science and immunize it from criticism."
"I want to be able to do what I want to do. A lot of times, the major labels, they can't see the vision, they can only see the dollar signs. So, it doesn't really work out like that."
"One must look for one thing only, to find many."
"Anything under the sun is beautiful if you have the vision it is the seeing of the thing that makes it so."
"Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen."
"Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you."
"To create an extraordinary quality of life, you must create a vision that's not only obtainable, but that is sustainable."
"See it better than it is or you have no future, without vision there is no possibility of improvement"
"Bill Hicks - blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built."
"Leadership is the ability to influence people and motivate them to do what needs to be done to accomplish a goal, vision, or mission."
"If you want to be rich, you need to develop your vision. You must be standing on the edge of time gazing into the future."
"Everyone has values; even criminal gangs have values. Values govern people's behavior but principles govern the consequences of those behaviors."
"A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men."
"We do not build or create a spiritual consciousness; we merely get rid of all that obscures our pure vision"
"I felt dull and flat and full of shattered visions."
"A vision without a strategy remains an illusion."
"If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be banished, and if the wellbeing of the world's people enhanced - not just in this generation but in succeeding generations - we must make sure we take care of the natural environment and resources on which our economic activity depends."
"We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them."