Vision Quotes - Page 32

• We can never thank David Stern enough. His vision to use basketball to improve the quality of our lives to make this world a better and saner place, that guy, is the most important man in the history of basketball.

  Bill Walton

  Inspirational, Basketball, Men

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• A man of forty today has nothing to worry him but falling hair, inability to button the top button, failing vision, shortness of breath, a tendency of the collar to shut off all breathing, trembling of the kidneys to whatever tune the orchestra is playing, and a general sense of giddiness when the matter of rent is brought up. Forty is Life's Golden Age.

  Robert Benchley

  Birthday, Fall, Men

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• A woman artist could be one of those intuitive geniuses [who] have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision and experience.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Photography, Art, Creativity

  "My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933".

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• Why limit yourself to what your eyes see when you have an opportunity to extend your vision?

  Edward Weston

  Eye, Opportunity, Limits

  Edward Weston (1973). “The daybooks of Edward Weston”

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• We are being at once wisely aware of our own frivolity if we avoid hitting and whacking and prefer 'striking' and 'smiting'; talk and chat and prefer 'speech' and 'discourse'; well-bred, brilliant, or polite noblemen (visions of snobbery columns in the Press, and fat men on the Riviera) and prefer the 'worthy, brave and courteous men' of long ago.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Men, Long Ago, Brave

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• People who have visions should go see a doctor.

  Helmut Schmidt

  Doctors, People, Should

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• The darkness which clings to every personality is the door into the unconscious and the gateway of dreams, from which those two twilight figures, the shadow and the anima, step into our nightly visions or, remaining invisible, take possession of our ego-consciousness.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Twilight, Doors

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.123, Princeton University Press

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• It will seem as if you were making the visions banal — but then you need to do that — then you are freed from the power of them Then when these things are in some precious book you can go to the book and turn over the pages and for you it will be your church — your cathedral — the silent places of your spirit where you will find renewal. If anyone tells you that it is morbid or neurotic and you listen to them — then you will lose your soul — for in that book is your soul.

  Carl Jung

  Book, Soul, Church

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• Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.

  William James

  God, Essentials, Elements

  Dr. William James (2013). “The William James Reader”, p.600, Simon and Schuster

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• This longing for knowledge makes the real artist brave. He never adheres to the first image that appears to him, because he knows that this is not necessarily the richest and more correct. He sacrifices one images for another more intense and expressive, and he does this repeatedly until new and unknown visions strike him with their revealing spell.

  Michael Chekhov

  Real, Sacrifice, Artist

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• Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts as somehow sissy and effete. We have done both an injustice. The life of the artist is, in relation to his work, stern and lonely. He has labored hard, often amid deprivation, to perfect his skill. He has turned aside from quick success in order to strip his vision of everything secondary or cheapening. His working life is marked by intense application and intense discipline.

  John F. Kennedy

  Lonely, Art, Past

  John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Magnum Photos, inc, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.) (1962). “Creative America”

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• In serving his vision of the truth, the artist best serves his nation.

  John F. Kennedy

  Artist, Presidential, Nations

  1963 At the dedication of Amherst College Robert Frost Library, 25 Oct.

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• We have before us the opportunity to forge for ourselves and for future generations a new world order, a world where the rule of law, not the law of the jungle, governs the conduct of nations. When we are successful, and we will be, we have a real chance at this new world order, an order in which a credible United Nations can use its peacekeeping role to fulfill the promise and vision of the U.N.'s founders.

  George H. W. Bush

  Real, Successful, Opportunity

  George H. W. Bush's Comments by Bush on the Air Strikes Against the Iraqis, www.nytimes.com. January 17, 1991.

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• My vision of a 'new world order' foresees a United Nations with a revitalized peacekeeping function.

  George H. W. Bush

  Order, America, World

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• Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective - a New World Order - can emerge. . . Now, we can see a New World Order coming into view. A world in which there is a very real prospect for a New World Order. . .A world where the United Nations, freed from a Cold War stalemate, is poised to fulfill the historic vision of its founders.

  George H. W. Bush

  Real, War, Views

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• The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. Each side should know that frequently uncertainty, compromise, and incoherence are the essence of policymaking. Yet each tends to ascribe to the other a consistency, foresight, and coherence that its own experience belies. Of course, over time, even two armed blind men can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Believe, Men, Essence

  "The White House Years". Book by Henry Kissinger, 1979.

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• The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm at a loss to explain my delusion that there exist any real links between that past and a future worthy of it.

  Hart Crane

  Real, Loss, Past

  Hart Crane (1965). “The letters of Hart Crane, 1916-1932”

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• Nothing is going to hurt this country - not bioweapons, not a nuclear weapon, not a terrorist strike - there is nothing that can hurt us if we stay united and move together and have a vision for moving to the future the right way.

  Wesley Clark

  Country, Hurt, Moving

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• President George Bush had the courage and the vision and we will always be grateful to President George Bush for that tremendous leadership and statesmanship.

  Wesley Clark

  Grateful, President, Statesmanship

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• By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don't swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for their separate moves, but for their vision of chess, their way of thinking.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Moving, Mean, Thinking

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• This obligation to move can be a burden to a player without strategic vision.

  Garry Kasparov

  Moving, Player, Burden

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.27, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• With all the challenges in the housing market, it's clear we need a new vision for the way we design our homes, our communities-and even our lives.

  Sarah Susanka

  Home, Community, Design

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• A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims.

  Leon Krier

  Cities, Results, Aim

  Léon Krier (1998). “Architecture: Choice Or Fate”, p.91, Papadakis Publisher

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• Code wants to be simple... I had to give up the idea that I had the perfect vision of the system to which the system had to conform. Instead, I had to accept that I was only the vehicle for the system expressing its own desire for simplicity. My vision could shape initial direction, and my attention to the desires of the code could affect how quickly and how well the system found its desired shape, but the system is riding me much more than I am riding the system.

  Kent Beck

  Giving Up, Simple, Ideas

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• When we are children, we have a tranquil acceptance of mystery which is driven out of us later on, by curiosity and education and experience. But it is possible to find one's way back. With affection and respect, I disagree totally with Penelope Lively's conviction about the 'absolute impossibility of recovering a child's vision.' There _are_ ways, imperfect, partial, fleeting, of looking again at a mystery through the eyes we used to have. Children are not different animals. They are us, not yet wearing our heavy jacket of time.

  Susan Cooper

  Children, Eye, Acceptance

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