"Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission."
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"Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!"
"In your action, you lose sight of the vision, you lose sight of your trust in the process, and you just bang around in a sense of futility. Hold the vision and trust that the Universe will acclimate to your vision. Hold the vision and trust the process."
"When you write you have a certain vision of how it could be and it's great to be able to see it all the way to the goal line."
"and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim us which will we claim how will we go on living how will we touch, what will we know what will we say to each other."
"Lack of world vision in any Christian produces a 'pea-sized Christianity'."
"When your sense of worth exceeds your conditions, conditions will shift to match your vision."
"The vision is that people should have the ultimate in convenience. Being able to get the things they care about on the appropriate device."
"The dangerous time when mechanical voices, radios, telephones, take the place of human intimacies, and the concept of being in touch with millions brings a greater and greater poverty in intimacy and human vision."
"Another aspect of the psychedelic vision for me that has been very profound, is the sense that every-thing is alive or at that at least, there is no distinction between what we call living and non-living."
"You keep pushing because you believe in yourself and in your vision and you know that it is the right thing to do, and success will come. So don't be afraid to fail!"
"My fantasy of Cuba was that everybody was going to be going around looking like Fidel, with green uniforms - and it was very different from my vision of how Cuba was going to be."
"Madness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels."
"The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise."
"The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, visions of ourselves that we would never see, never permit ourselves to become, in places we can never go and might not care to, while assuring that we get to return home again."
"Your imagination is ten times more potent than your willpower. Unleashed, it provides a sense of certainty and tenacious vision that goes far beyond any limitation of the past."
"If hope is just a mere wish, if it is just like making friends with fantasy, then consciousness will not respond to it. But if it is something significant, like a vision that is trying to blossom inside the heart of an individual, then consciousness will be elevated."
"All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things"
"Dreams don't deal in time. Time doesn't count."
"What I cannot forgive is dishonesty - and no matter what, or how hard, I would rather know the truth of which I today had such a clear & devastating vision from his mouth than hear foul evasions, blurrings and rattiness."