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"The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world, to state in aesthetic creation the deepest psychic and personal experiences of a human being. It is to enable those experiences to be intelligible and generally recognized within the total framework of an ideal world."
"As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers."
"You are not wrong who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream."
"With me, my main vision for life was to avoid as many people as possible. The less people I saw the better I felt."
"Our vision is only actionable if we share it. Without sharing, it’s just a figment of our imagination."
"But I hope that it will also be demonstrated soon that in my experiments in the West I was not merely beholding a vision, but had caught sight of a great and profound truth."
"It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams."
"If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you’re competing against a lot of people, But if you’re willing to invest on a seven-year time horizon, you’re now competing against a fraction of those people, because very few companies are willing to do that. Just by lengthening the time horizon, you can engage in endeavours that you could never otherwise pursue. At Amazon we like things to work in five to seven years. We’re willing to plant seeds, let them grow—and we’re very stubborn. We say we’re stubborn on vision and flexible on details."
"When people can see a vision and simultaneously recognize what can be done step by step in a concrete way to achieve it, they will begin to feel encouragement and enthusiasm instead of fright."
"The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground."
"We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals."
"But concerning vision alone is a separate science formed among philosophers, namely, optics, and not concerning any other sense ... It is possible that some other science may be more useful, but no other science has so much sweetness and beauty of utility. Therefore it is the flower of the whole of philosophy and through it, and not without it, can the other sciences be known."
"The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see."
"It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards."
"The arc of history is longer than human vision. It bends. We abolished slavery, we granted universal suffrage. We have done hard things before. And every time it took a terrible fight between people who could not imagine changing the rules, and those who said, 'We already did. We have made the world new.' The hardest part will be to convince yourself of the possibilities, and hang on."
"The evolution of government from its medieval, Mafia-like character to that embodying modern legal institutions and instruments is a major part of the history of freedom. It is a part that tends to be obscured or ignored because of the myopic vision of many economists, who persist in modeling government as nothing more than a gigantic form of theft and income redistribution."
"The vision is really about empowering workers, giving them all the"
"Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way."
"The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is."
"We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details."
