"When you lose your vision, you lose contact with things. When you lose your hearing, you lose contact with people."
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"We can encourage more of our universities and municipalities, foundations, corporations, individuals and cultural institutions... to move their money out of the problem (fossil fuels) and into the solutions (renewable energy)"
"Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness."
"Close your eyes and you will see."
"Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren't different things. Sometimes they are the same exact thing."
"All I know is that the first step is to create a vision, because when you see the vision – the beautiful vision – that creates the want power."
"Panic causes tunnel vision. Calm acceptance of danger allows us to more easily assess the situation and see the options."
"When you have a sense of your own identity and a vision of where you want to go in your life, you then have the basis for reaching out to the world and going after your dreams for a better life."
"There is nothing but a lack of social vision to prevent us from paying an adequate wage to every American citizen whether he be a hospital worker, laundry worker, maid or day laborer"
"Every fight is one between different angles of vision illuminating the same truth."
"Love not what you are but only what you may become."
"Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them."
"An oral society develops both sides of your brain, and the utilization of your brain is more complete than in a linear education module. The written word limits your brain capability by immediately focusing on one area. You don't have any peripheral vision. It immediately divorces you from the environment."
"He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time."
"The world needs leaders of vision instead of leaders on television."
"Earn your leadership every day."
"That which holds our attention determines our action."
"Microsoft was founded with a vision of a computer on every desk, and in every home. We've never wavered from that vision."
"Nietzsche ... does not shy from conscious exaggeration and one-sided formulations of his thought, believing that in this way he can most clearly set in relief what in his vision and in his inquiry is different from the run-of-the-mill."
"Become vision itself."