Vision Quotes

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Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision. — Virginia Woolf
It is a magic book. Words mean things. When you put them together they speak. Yes, sometimes they flatten out and nothing they say is… — Samuel R. Delany
If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear. — William Shakespeare
Through imagination, we can visualize the uncredited worlds of potential that lie within us. — Stephen Covey
To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle. — George Orwell
The leaf fall of his words, the stained glass hues of his moods, the rust in his voice, the smoke in his mouth, his breath… — Anais Nin
Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to… — Ayn Rand
The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve,… — Ayn Rand
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens… — Immanuel Kant
When I was a younger man, art was a lonely thing. No galleries, no collectors, no critics, no money. Yet, it was a golden age,… — Mark Rothko
I always think about what it means to wear eyeglasses. When you get used to glasses you don't know how far you could really see.… — Andy Warhol
There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open… — John Lennon
I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a… — Diana Gabaldon
There was nothing to do but wait. It is always like this for naturalists, and for poets--the long hours of travel and preparation, and then… — Diane Ackerman
Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness of it. But… — Marilynne Robinson
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I'd begun to realize that there was an unspoken predjudice among book-learned people, a secret conviction they all seemed to share, that life as we… — Ian Caldwell
I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living,… — Martha Graham
Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not expect people to… — George Eliot
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and… — George Bernard Shaw
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is… — Viktor E. Frankl
In great deeds, something abides. On great fields, something stays. Forms change and pass; bodies disappear; but spirits linger, to consecrate ground for the vision-place… — Joshua Chamberlain
Theirs is the mystery of continuous creation and all that providence implies: the uncertainty of vision, the horror of the fixed, the dissolution of the… — Annie Dillard

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