"Tragedy is a vision of nihilism, a heroic or ennobling vision of nihilism."
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"A movement without vision would be a movement without moral foundation."
"You won't get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it."
"With a penetrating vision you can dissipate the obstruction, remove the obstacle, dissolve the wrong condition."
"Imagine what you will be, and it will be so."
"The motors I build there were exactly as I imagined them. I made no attempt to improve the design, but merely reproduced the pictures as they appeared to my vision and the operation was always as I expected."
"It makes no sense to invest in [fossil fuel] companies that undermine our future"
"The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system."
"Vision motivates, sustains and dispels doubt."
"A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet."
"What the really great artists do is they're entirely themselves. They're entirely themselves. They've got their own vision, they have their own way of fracturing reality, and if it's authentic and true, you will feel it in your nerve endings."
"Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind."
"One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader's need to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on sticking to the vision and stay on course to the destination. But he must be open-minded during the process."
"Success Procedure: Run your day by the clock and your life with a vision."
"All of us need a vision for our lives, and even as we work to achieve that vision, we must surrender to the power that is greater than we know. It's one of the defining principles of my life that I love to share: God can dream a bigger dream for you than you could ever dream for yourself."
"This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it."
"Perhaps the rhinos and she-crocodiles whose gyrations between Mortimer's and East Hampton gives us our vision of social eminence today are content to entrust their faces to Andy Warhol's mingily cosmetic Polaroidising, but one would bet they would rather go to Sargent."
"Roses bloom, and then they wither; Cheeks are bright, then fade and die; Shapes of light are wafted hither, Then, like visions, hurry by."
"Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes."
"As God talked with Arjuna, so will He talk with you. As He lifted up the spirit and consciousness of Arjuna, so will He uplift you. As he granted Arjuna supreme spiritual vision, so will He confer enlightenment on you."