Vision Quotes - Page 16

• One single glance will conquer all descriptions.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Conquer, Description, Glances

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1850). “Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments. 1st and 2d Series in One Volume”, p.327

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• Few have greater riches than the joy That comes to us in visions, In dreams which nobody can take away.

  Euripides

  Dream, Joy, Riches

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

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• The Master observes the world, but trusts his inner vision. He allows things to come and go. His heart is as open as the sky.

  Laozi

  Heart, Sky, Taoism

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• To be constantly without desire is the way to have a vision of the mystery of heaven and earth. For constantly to have desire is the means by which their limitations are seen.

  Laozi

  Mean, Heaven, Desire

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• Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Eye, Thinking

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• Business model innovation is constant in this economy. You start with a vision of a platform. For a while, you think there's a line of sight, and then it's gone. There's suddenly a new angle.

  Beth Comstock

  Thinking, Sight, Innovation

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• The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone - in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.

  Al Franken

  Balance, Citizens, Agendas

  "Fighting For America’s Middle Class, Netroots Nation 2011" by Al Franken, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2011.

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• One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

  Thomas Sowell

  Caring, Political, Economy

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• If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Melania Trump Quote Sounds Suspiciously Similar To Marla Maples" by Alana Horowitz Satlin, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 04, 2016.

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• You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.

  Jack Welch

  Dream, Commitment, Long

  Interview with Larry Kudlow, www.nationalreview.com. March 17, 2009.

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• 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 flower's stem.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Flower, Heart, Romance

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1387, Dell

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• I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy.

  Bono

  Dream, Hate, Two

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• Contemplating an object fixedly with the mind, asking myself, 'What is it?' without thinking of any other object or relating it to anything else for hours on end.

  Simone Weil

  Thinking, Mind, Asking

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• I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Awe, Objects

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• Take the whole universe all at once and put it on your eyelashes.

  Yunmen Wenyan

  Eyelashes, Whole, Seeing

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• Gertrude Jekyll, like Monet, was a painter with poor eyesight, and their gardens - his at Giverny in the Seine valley, hers in Surrey - had resemblance's that may have sprung from this condition. Both loved plants that foamed and frothed over walls and pergolas, spread in tides beneath trees; both saw flowers in islands of colored light - an image the normal eye captures only by squinting.

  Eleanor Perenyi

  Love, Wall, Flower

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• I was not looking now at an unusual flower arrangement. I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation - the miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence.

  Aldous Huxley

  Morning, Flower, Miracle

  1954 The Doors of Perception.

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• The eye encompasses the beauty of the whole world.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Eye, World, Whole

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• We never see a tree except through the image that we have of it, the concept of that tree; but the concept, the knowledge, the experience, is entirely different from the actual tree. Look at a tree and you will find how extraordinarily difficult it is to see it completely, so that no image, no screen, comes between the seeing and the actual fact. By completely I mean with the totality of your mind and heart, not a fragment of it.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Tree, Different, Seeing

  "The Pocket Krishnamurti".

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• Ineluctable modality of the visible; at least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read.

  James Joyce

  Eye, Signatures, All Things

  James Joyce, General Press (2016). “Ulysses”, p.37, GENERAL PRESS

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• One looks, looks long, and the world comes in.

  Joseph Campbell

  Long, Looks, World

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “Myths to Live By”, p.68, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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