"By 'scientifiction' I mean the Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe type of story-a charming romance intermingled with scientific fact and prophetic vision"
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"You should paint those visions of paradise rather than just talking about them."
"Vision without execution is delusion. The joy is in the results"
"Modern man, if he dared to be articulate about his concept of heaven, would describe a vision which would look like the biggest department store in the world, showing new things and gadgets, and himself having plenty of money with which to buy them."
"Life is the movie you see through your own eyes."
"I longed for a power of vision which might overpass that limit; which might reach the busy world, towns, regions full of life I had heard of but never seen: that I desired more of practical experience than I possessed; more of intercourse with my kind, of acquaintance with variety of character, than was here within my reach."
"Me can't tell you how me know Rastafari. It is pure vision."
"For me, President Obama is our best choice because he has a vision of the United States as a place where we are all in this together."
"Wendy, let me in, I wanna be your friend. I wanna guard your dreams and visions."
"There is a fissure in my vision and madness will always rush through."
"Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'."
"The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life."
"You've got to believe in yourself, you've got to have a very clear vision, and you've got have the fire in the belly and go out and not be shy with working because it takes a lot of work."
"The point of vision and desire are the same."
"You, a person with a vision, are like a pebble in a stream, moving ever outward to infinity, impacting on all who come into contact with the ripple."
"The step between ecstatic vision and sinful frenzy is all too brief."
"The hope is that papal calls for a New Pentecost, which go back to St. John XXIII, and papal calls for a New Evangelization, which go back to Vatican II and especially to St. John Paul II, can come together. Pope Francis' vision is to bring together the reality of a New Pentecost with the urgency of a New Evangelization."
"To be ordinary is not a choice: It is the usual freedom of men without visions."
"Leadership is about pointing in the direction, articulating a vision of the world that does not yet exist. Then asking help from others to insure that vision happens."
"The power of transcendent vision is greater than the power of the scripting deep inside the human personality and it subordinates it [the scripting], submerges it, until the whole personality is reorganized in the accomplishment of that vision."