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• The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. The public does not fully understand the world into which it is going. Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision. Those leaders who do not are ultimately judged failures, even though they may be popular at the moment.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  People, Leader, Doe

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• We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust. We must dissent from a nation that has buried its head in the sand, waiting in vain for the needs of its poor, its elderly, and its sick to disappear and just blow away. We must dissent from a government that has left its young without jobs, education or hope. We must dissent from the poverty of vision and the absence of moral leadership. We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Jobs, Blow, America

  Thurgood Marshall, J. Clay Smith, Jr. (2003). “Supreme Justice: Speeches and Writings”, p.15, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Sometimes an obstacle is placed in front of us by God for the purpose of upgrading our vision and experiencing our dream at a higher level. The obstacle can only be here by permission of God, so it has to help us become what He is seeing about us.

  Graham Cooke

  Dream, Purpose, Levels

  FaceBook post by Graham Cooke from Nov 09, 2012

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• I do believe I am special. My special gift is my vision, my commitment, and my willingness to do whatever it takes.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Believe, Commitment

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• Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin.

  Robert Collier

  Life, Motivational, Wisdom

  Robert Collier (2013). “Secrets of the Ages”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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• A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Inspirational, Business, Wisdom Experience

  1857-8 The Professor at the Breakfast Table, ch.10.

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• The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Freedom, Work, Philosophy

  "Mad about Physics : Braintwisters, Paradoxes, and Curiosities". Book by Christopher Jargodzki, 2001.

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• Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Gratitude

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.309, e-artnow

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• Through imagination, we can visualize the uncredited worlds of potential that lie within us.

  Stephen Covey

  Lying, Imagination, World

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• Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in waking, to find that they have been upon the verge of the great secret. In snatches, they learn something of the wisdom which is of good, and more of the mere knowledge which is of evil.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Dream, Night, Evil

  Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “Complete Tales & Poems”, p.649, Vintage

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• 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.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Dream, Night, Gone

  "A DreamWithin a Dream" l. 10 (1849)

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• I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years, Those of my own life, who by turns had flung A shadow across me.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Sweet, Years, Shadow

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.141

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• We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Clear Vision, Clear

  "Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• But who will dare to speak the truth out clear? The few who anything of truth have learned, And foolishly did not keep truth concealed, Their thoughts and visions to the common herd revealed, Since time began we've crucified and burned

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Common, Speak, Herds

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John R. Williams (1999). “Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy ; with the Unpublished Scenarios for the Walpurgis Night and the Urfaust”, p.167, Wordsworth Editions

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• A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.

  Polybius

  Leadership, Creative, Victory

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• I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.202, Penguin

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• It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Believe

  Arnold J. Toynbee (1949). “Civilization on Trial”

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• Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

  John Wooden

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Fellowship of Christian Athletes, John Wooden (2010). “The Greatest Coach Ever: Timeless Wisdom and Insights of John Wooden”, p.101, Gospel Light Publications

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• The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.

  John Milton

  Happiness, Inspiring, Attitude

  Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 254 (1667)

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• Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Memories, Should Have, Religion

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• Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within the range of our intellectual ray.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fall, Intellectual, Rays

  Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• Go to sleep with visions of what you love. Let your dream vision marinate overnight. Wake up with your positive, hopeful thoughts in place, ready to guide you through a day in which you step ever closer to the life you dream of.

  Wayne Dyer

  Dream, Sleep, Hopeful

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Apr 21, 2011

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• Pessimistic visions about almost anything always strike the public as more erudite than optimistic ones

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Optimistic, Investing, Pessimistic

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• Few lack talent, but most people lack the vision and perseverance to develop their talents.

  Orrin Woodward

  Encouraging, Perseverance, People

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• One needs to have some sense of purpose. Next, you need to have a vision that grows out of that purpose.

  Jack Canfield

  Needs, Purpose, Next

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