Vision Quotes - Page 28

• I have since only rarely seen the tree with the lights in it. The vision comes and goes, mostly goes, but I live for it, for the moment when the mountains open and a new light roars in spate through the crack, and the mountains slam.

  Annie Dillard

  Light, Tree, Mountain

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.36, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• The future's so random, and so mobile, there's no way you're going to get to your vision of what you want your community to be just by chance alone. I really believe you have to let people know, to use your voice, to say, 'this is what I like about my place, I want to keep it this way, this is what I think can be improved, this is what I disapprove of.' That's the only way you can have a part in shaping the future.

  Rick Bass

  Believe, Thinking, Voice

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• At that moment, in the sunset on Watership Down, there was offered to General Woundwort the opportunity to show whether he was really the leader of vision and genius which he believed himself to be, or whether he was no more than a tyrant with the courage and cunning of a pirate. For one beat of his pulse the lame rabbit's idea shone clearly before him. He grasped it and realized what it meant. The next, he had pushed it away from him.

  Richard Adams

  Sunset, Opportunity, Tyrants

  Richard Adams (2009). “Watership Down: A Novel”, p.421, Simon and Schuster

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• My images were surreal simply in the sense that my vision brought out the fantastic dimension of reality. My only aim was to express reality, for there is nothing more surreal than reality itself. If reality fails to fill us with wonder, it is because we have fallen into the habit of seeing it as ordinary.

  Brassai

  Reality, Ordinary, Dimensions

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• Yao Ming is the best thing to happen to the NBA in a long time. He is just a beautiful person inside and out. The vision, the creativity, the gentleness of spirit … he has it all.

  Bill Walton

  Beautiful, Creativity, Nba

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• No one … can entirely step out of his time, that despite his keenness of vision his thinking is in many ways bound to be influenced by the mentality of his time

  Karen Horney

  Thinking, Way, Steps

  Karen Horney (2013). “New Ways in Psychoanalysis”, p.37, Routledge

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• The Pan-Africanism that envisaged the ideal of wholeness was gradually cut down to the size of a continent, then a nation, a region, an ethnos, a clan, and even a village in some instances But Pan-Africanism has not outlived its mission. Seen as an economic, political, cultural, and psychological re-membering vision, it should continue to guide remembering practices

  Ngugi wa Thiong'o

  Cutting, Practice, Political

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• I have a flood of ideas in my mind. I just follow my vision.

  Yayoi Kusama

  Ideas, Mind, Flood

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• If the vision is there, the means will follow.

  Faith Popcorn

  Mean, Ifs

  Faith Popcorn (1998). “Clicking: 17 Trends That Move Your Business And Your Life”, p.30, BookBaby

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• The focus in the Creator Orientation is on a Vision or an Outcome. You orient your thoughts and actions toward creating what you most deeply want to see or experience in life.

  David Emerald Womeldorff

  Creating, Focus, Want

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• The way you create any outcome in your life is to hold the vision of your deepest desires. At the same time, though, you must honestly and accurately assess your current situation and how it relates to your greater vision. By doing this, you engage tension between what is and what can be. This tension is the primary creative force behind the manifestation of any outcome. It's as natural and powerful as the force of gravity.

  David Emerald Womeldorff

  Powerful, Creative, Desire

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• Some of the steps you take may end up being detours or out-and-out mistakes. By staying focused on your vision, though, you'll find even those steps useful in the creating process.

  David Emerald Womeldorff

  Mistake, Creating, Focus

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• A Creator is vision-focused and passion-motivated. To really live into your Creator self, you are called to do the inner work necessary to find your own sense of purpose-whatever touches your heart and holds meaning for you.

  David Emerald Womeldorff

  Passion, Heart, Self

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• Conservative ideas are alive and dynamic, the result of a free and intellectually honest vision for the country. As long as conservatism is strong, the future of a strong America is assured.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Strong, Honesty

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• Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in a vision the horrible instruments his children were to invent, he would have died of grief.

  Martin Luther

  Children, Grief, Believe

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• We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Happiness, Laughter, Memories

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1631, Delphi Classics

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• The fossil reserves that have already been discovered exceed what can ever be safely used. Yet companies spend half a trillion dollars each year searching for more fuel. They should redirect this money toward developing clean energy solutions

  Desmond Tutu

  Future, Years, Dollars

  "Desmond Tutu: We fought apartheid. Now climate change is our global enemy" by Desmond Tutu, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2014.

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• We can encourage more of our universities and municipalities, foundations, corporations, individuals and cultural institutions... to move their money out of the problem (fossil fuels) and into the solutions (renewable energy)

  Desmond Tutu

  Moving, Future, Fuel

  "Desmond Tutu: We fought apartheid. Now climate change is our global enemy" by Desmond Tutu, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2014.

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• The 2013/14 storms & floods show the UK needs to invest in a climate resilient, low carbon, food secure, full employment, positive future

  Phil Harding

  Future, Storm, Needs

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• We're never going to scare people into living more sustainably! We have to be able to demonstrate just how dynamic and aspirational such a world could be

  Jonathon Porritt

  Future, People, Scare

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• Short term "dash for cash" economic solutions hinder progress towards a better, more sustainable, world

  Phil Harding

  Future, Progress, Cash

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• At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different

  Roberto Unger

  Future, Imagination, World

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• We don't, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren.

  Prince Charles

  Future, Grandchildren, Hands

  "Prince Charles on Grandchildren: Won't Leave Behind 'Poisoned Chalice'" by Emma Koonse, www.christianpost.com. January 7, 2013.

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• The sustainability revolution will, hopefully, be the third major social and economic turning point in human history, following the Neolithic Revolution - moving from hunter-gathering to farming - and the Industrial Revolution

  Prince Charles

  Moving, Future, Hunters

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• Peace, non-violence, human rights and the environment - if only everybody saw these as the seamless whole that they are

  Jonathon Porritt

  Future, Rights, Saws

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