Vision Quotes - Page 25

• Dreams don't deal in time. Time doesn't count.

  Robin Williams

  Dream, Deals

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• The key to a great story is not who, or what, or when, but why.

  Jonathan Pryce

  Dream, Keys, Stories

  "Fictional character: Elliot Carver". "Tomorrow Never Dies", www.imdb.com. December 9, 1997.

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• It is better to have had your wish than to have wish you had.

  Patrick Cranshaw

  Dream, Wish, Wish You

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• Men should be explorers no matter how old they are.

  Don Ameche

  Dream, Men, Matter

  "Fictional character: Art Selwyn". "Cocoon", 1985.

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• The future has taken root in the present.

  Nicol Williamson

  Dream, Taken, Roots

  "Fictional character: Merlin". "Excalibur", www.imdb.com. 1981.

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• We all have our dreams.

  Roger Moore

  Dream, Our Dreams

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• It's better to live as your own man, than as a fool in someone else's dream.

  Martin Landau

  Dream, Men, Fool

  "Fictional character: Commander John Koenig". "Space: 1999", www.imdb.com. 1975–1977.

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• You sit in your tepee and dream and then you go to wherever the dream may take you. It might come true. You wait for real life to catch up.

  Burt Lancaster

  Dream, Real, Waiting

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• And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

  Peter O'Toole

  Dream, Hope, Madness

  "Fictional character: Miguel de Cervantes". "Man of La Mancha", www.imdb.com. 1972.

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• My body is on the earth, but my head is in the stars.

  Ruth Gordon

  Dream, Stars, Body

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• Don't nurse your dreams, Rosy. You can't help having them, but don't nurse them. If you nurse your dreams, they tend to come true.

  Trevor Howard

  Dream, Nurse, Helping

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• I have vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals.

  Paul Newman

  Dream, World, Bifocals

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• Heaven may have happiness as utterly unknown to us as the gift of perfect vision would be to a man born blind. If we consider the inlets of pleasure from five senses only, we may be sure that the same Being who created us could have given us five hundred, if He had pleased.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Blessing, Men, Perfect

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.134

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• Everyone has these two visions when they hold their child for the first time. The first is your child as an adult saying "I want to thank the Nobel Committee for this award." The other is "You want fries with that?".

  Robin Williams

  Children, Memorable, Two

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The belief in the inevitability of war is a self-fulfilling prophecy... We need an alternative vision, to see the world as one, as interconnected.

  Dennis Kucinich

  War, Self, Needs

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• You have to take ownership and leadership of tomorrow. For that to be possible, you have to strengthen your capacity and widen your vision as a global citizen.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Citizens, Tomorrow, Youth

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• As the young leaders of tomorrow, you have the passion and energy and commitment to make a difference. What I'd like to really urge you do is to have a global vision. Go beyond your country; go beyond your national boundaries

  Ban Ki-moon

  Country, Passion, Commitment

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• You have to work and think about how we can make this world a better place for all. This is what I'd really like to ask our young leaders. We will try as leaders of today to minimise the problems which we will hand over to you. But it is to you. You have to take ownership and leadership of tomorrow. For that to be possible, you have to strengthen your capacity and widen your vision as a global citizen.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Thinking, Hands, Leader

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• There is a place in God's sun for the youth "farthest down" who has the vision, the determination, and the courage to reach it.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Courage, Determination, Sun

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• He named me. He liked the sound of it. And I said, well, all right. I felt a little odd about it. I don't understand all that name changing business anyway... No, he felt that Lauren Bacall was better sounding than Betty Bacall. He had a vision of his own. He was a svengali. He wanted to mold me. He wanted to control me. And he did until Mr. Bogart got involved.

  Lauren Bacall

  Memorable, Names, Svengali

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• Is this a dagger which I see before me,
  The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
  I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
  Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
  To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
  A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
  Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Memorable, Sight

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 1, l. 33

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• Really, in the end, the only thing that can make you a writer is the person that you are, the intensity of your feeling, the honesty of your vision, the unsentimental acknowledgment of the endless interest of the life around and within you. Virtually nobody can help you deliberately - many people will help you unintentionally.

  Santha Rama Rau

  Honesty, Writing, People

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• The ageless melody, unheard, heals; the healing vision, unseen, leads; the true leaders, immortal, know...

  Khalil Gibran

  Uplifting, Healing, Leader

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• Sooner or later a democracy which is to survive has to be able to rely upon that enlargement of vision and purpose of those individuals who compose it, which means that their craving for devotion and self-sacrifice is satisfied in a democratic society on a nobler level, and with a finer recognition of the value of individual personality than is true of a national purpose of a totalitarian state under a dictator.

  Ordway Tead

  Mean, Sacrifice, Self

  Attributed to Ordway Tead in "The Forbes scrapbook of Thoughts on the business of life", p. 138, 1950.

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• Part of the reason that these attempts at explanation fail, I think, is that photographers, like all artists, choose their medium because it allows them the most fully truthful expression of their vision... as Robert Frost told a person who asked him what one of his poems meant, 'You want me to say it worse?'

  Robert Adams

  Photography, Thinking, Artist

  Robert Adams (1994). “Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews”

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