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"The pressure is always very high. I am the client, and when I am the client, I need to fight with the photographer or with the stylists or with all the people that are on the set, because I am the only one who has a very specific vision. I always have the pressure, either from myself or from the company. I am a control freak. It's part of my culture. I know that I am still working to build a Frida moment at Gucci."
"You've got to go after your dreams. If you don't make an effort, nothing's ever going to change."
"Many-sidedness of culture makes our vision clearer and keener in particulars."
"I feel like if you let someone else create your vision, then it's not true to your band. No one can ever do as good as you want, or as good as you can yourself."
"It may be that without a vision men shall die. It is no less true that, without hard practical sense, they shall also die. Without Jefferson the new nation might have lost its soul. Without Hamilton it would assuredly have been killed in body."
"What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim."
"Prediction is difficult- particularly when it involves the future."
"Our vision is every book ever printed in any language [fetched and viewable on our eBook Kindle device] in under 60 seconds."
"We never see a tree except through the image that we have of it, the concept of that tree; but the concept, the knowledge, the experience, is entirely different from the actual tree. Look at a tree and you will find how extraordinarily difficult it is to see it completely, so that no image, no screen, comes between the seeing and the actual fact. By completely I mean with the totality of your mind and heart, not a fragment of it."
"O latest born and loveliest vision far of all Olympus' faded hierarchy."
"One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance."
"Seeing is not always believing."
"We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak."
"Teaching art is a shared experience. Our ability to share our own personal vision and interact with others through art can become realized."
"Yehudi Menuhin was a citizen of the world in the fullest sense - one whose vision and culture gave him a deep empathy with fellow human beings of every creed and color."
"After his great awakening, the Buddha continued to meditate and to devote himself to others; otherwise his vision would have receded into a pleasant memory."
"For all its considerable merits and inspirational principles, the American system is based upon a continuous uninterrupted process of election campaigns, stretching out year after year. Lost in the perpetual scramble is any long-term vision."
"After my election there was talk of a postracial America. And such a vision, however well intended, was never realistic."
"I would always say to anyone, you make choices that are important to you. Don't allow yourself to be exploited by something as fleeting as fame and fortune. If you're presenting yourself in a way that important to you in communicating your vision, then so be it. No one should allow themselves to be exploited ever."
"People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for any amount of money to be reformed for someone's vision, because in the end, that's what you got: your clay in someone else's hands."
