Vision Quotes - Page 19

• Watching I watch myself, what I see is my creation as though entering through my eyes perception is conception into an eye more crystal clear water of thoughts, what I watch watches me, I am the creation of what I see

  Octavio Paz

  Eye, Water, Perception

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• Vipassana: looking into something with clarity and precision, seeing each component as distinct, piercing all the way through so as to perceive the most fundamental reality of that thing.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Reality, Fundamentals, Piercings

  Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• The only sense we still respect is eyesight, probably because it is so closely attached to the brain. Go into any American house at random, you will find something - a plastic flower, false tiles, some imitation something - something which can be appreciated as material only if apprehended by eyesight alone. Don't we go sightseeing in cars, thinking we can experience a landscape by looking at it through glass?

  Galway Kinnell

  Flower, Thinking, Glasses

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• It's better not to see than to see wrongly.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Awe, Seeing

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• Content is a glimpse.

  Willem de Kooning

  Glimpse, Awe, Seeing

  Willem De Kooning (2001). “Willem De Kooning: Vellums : March 21-April 21, 2001”, Mitchell-Inness & Nash

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• I could paint these mountains the way they look, but it isn't how I see them.

  Justin Beckett

  Mountain, Looks, Way

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• Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we must carry it with us or we find it not . . . The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is a great difference in beholders.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Differences, World, Landscape

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• It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Way, Impossible, Awe

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• Others can measure their visions by what we see.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Awe, Seeing

  Falco, Nick Cave, Allen Ginsberg (2002). “Viva la poesia”

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• Hardly any one is able to see what is before him, just as it is in itself. He comes expecting one thing, he finds another thing, he sees through the veil of his preconception, he criticizes before he has apprehended, he condemns without allowing his instinct the chance of asserting itself.

  Arthur Symons

  Veils, Able, Chance

  Arthur Symons (1924). “The collected works of Arthur Symons”

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• We have five senses in which we glory and which we recognize and celebrate, senses that constitute the sensible world for us. But there are other senses - secret senses, sixth senses, if you will - equally vital, but unrecognized, and unlauded ... unconscious, automatic.

  Oliver Sacks

  Hands, Touching, Feelings

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• He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.

  George Santayana

  Believe, Thinking, Awe

  George Santayana (2013). “Scepticism and Animal Faith”, p.201, Courier Corporation

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• It skims in through the eye, and by means of the utterly delicate retina hurls shadows like insect legs inward for translation. Then an immense space opens up in silence and an endlessly fecund sub-universe the writer descends, and asks the reader to descend after him, not merely to gain instructions but also to experience delight, the delight of mind freed from matter and exultant in the strength it has stolen from matter.

  John Updike

  Mean, Eye, Space

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• I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Inspirational, Practice, Focus

  Twitter post from Apr 06, 2016

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• I saw dawn upon them like the sun a vision of a time when all men walk proudly through the earth and the bombs and missiles lie at the bottom of the ocean like the bones of dinosaurs buried under the shale of eras.

  Dudley Randall

  Time, Lying, Ocean

  1968 Cities Burning,'Roses and Revolutions'.

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• Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Leadership, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Mar 12, 2013

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• Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.

  Brian Tracy

  Leadership, Helping Others, People

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• The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression.

  Eric Maisel

  Depression, Strong, Artist

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• If you are eating well and your condition is pure and clean, life itself becomes like the dreams or visions that you have when sleeping.

  Michio Kushi

  Life, Dream, Sleep

  "Spiritual Journey: Michio Kushi's Guide to Endless Self-Realization and Freedom". Book by Michio Kushi and Edward Esko (p. 64), December 1994.

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• Those things of real worth in life are worth going to any length in love and respect to safeguard.

  Julia Hill

  Beauty, Peace, Real

  "Icon will not throw in sponge" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2000.

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• Your life is a sacred journey. It is about change, growth, discovery, movement, transformation, continuously expanding your vision of what is possible, stretching your soul, learning to see clearly and deeply, listening to your intuition, taking courageous challenges at every step along the way. You are on the path... exactly where you are meant to be right now... And from here, you can only go forward, shaping your life story into a magnificent tale of triumph, of healing, of courage, of beauty, of wisdom, of power, of dignity, and of love.

  Caroline Adams Miller

  Wisdom, Yoga, Healing

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• Anxiety leads to a narrowing of the field of attention, the so-called tunnel vision, and when people are anxious, they are unable to attend to the total situation as is necessary to enable them to act rationally, but impulsively do the first thing that comes into their heads which is usually determined by what others are doing at the same time.

  James A.C. Brown

  Tunnels, People, Worry

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• "I don't like it" or "I like it". This sentence must go away from your tongue. Likes and dislikes are only for people who have limited vision. You should learn to appreciate.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• A vision without action is called a daydream; but then again, action without a vision is called a nightmare.

  Jim Sorensen

  Action, Nightmare, Daydreaming

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• True visionaries are never lukewarm.

  George Barna

  Visionaries, Lukewarm

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