Vision Quotes - Page 32

• The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.

  Emile Zola

  Art, Philosophy, Believe

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• We know the problems, and we know the solution: sustainable development. The issue is the political will.

  Tony Blair

  Future, Political Will, Issues

  "Can she sustain it?" by Jonathon Porritt, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2002.

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• Our life as consumers seems light years away from that of our grandparents. But you don't change human nature. Optimism, for me, is the belief that we can spread the opportunity for everyone to be fully human. Sustainability, like music, is an impulse to make sense of the world around us. It is core to our humanity. If you only like one composer, or think all the best music has already been written, you have reason for pessimism. If not, it is within us to have good reason for hope

  Ed Mayo

  Future, Thinking, Opportunity

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• I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.

  Duane Michals

  Believe, Imagination, Important

  Duane Michals, Sidney Janis Gallery (1976). “Exhibition of photo-portraits & street scenes sequences: black & white and color photographs with text, text without photographs”

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• O latest born and loveliest vision far of all Olympus' faded hierarchy.

  John Keats

  Olympus, Hierarchy, Born

  John Keats (1859). “The Poetical Works of John Keats: With a Life”, p.314

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• She was the light of our lives, our anchor, compass and vision.

  Ralph Nader

  Light, Anchors, Compass

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• I have no happy fairyland vision that she can win.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Winning

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• It's not just straight-line speed. He's got the agility and the quickness to go with it. His vision on the field is phenomenal. It just opens the playbook so much as a coach that I'm really looking forward to it.

  LeBron James

  Agility, Lines, Fields

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• I decided on a vision. I think I maybe join Toyota at the midpoint of a project, whose long-term goal is winning world championships. Also I have my big ambition, the drivers' world championship. That is not abandoned - entirely the opposite. I am young enough and motivated enough to make a new start in order to reach this goal.

  Michael Schumacher

  Ambition, Winning, Thinking

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• Novell has the necessary resources to be a much more profitable enterprise but it currently lacks the vision, strategy and execution to produce respectable returns.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Return, Execution, Strategy

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• Our guys have a vision of something bigger.

  Twyla Tharp

  Guy, Bigger

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• I think that we already have a really good system in town, but I have a vision that it could be even better. My vision is that academic excellence is the area that we should pursue more, coupled with fiscal discipline.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Thinking, Academic Excellence, Discipline

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• We share management's vision that the recent regulatory changes, the large presence of Sprint Nextel in the 2.5 GHz band, and the near-term implementation of 4G systems make Oneida the right company in the right place at the right time.

  Peter Schiff

  Band, Management, Share

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• I saw this vision with a beautiful plastic bag in Kensington High Street, ... and then you didn't see the face because he had this blond thing [indicating a sweeping fringe across his face] that was, you know, too much!

  Manolo Blahnik

  Beautiful, Bags, Too Much

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• It's easy to say ''no!'' when there's a deeper ''yes!'' burning inside.

  Stephen Covey

  Character, Catching Fire, Burning

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1997). “First Things First Every Day: Daily Reflections- Because Where You're Headed Is More Important Than How Fast You Get There”, Simon and Schuster

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• Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.

  Studs Terkel

  Jobs, Spirit

  "5 guidelines to help find a more rewarding career" by Sepha Schiffman, www.sfgate.com. May 7, 2000.

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• Many unsustainable behaviours are locked-in and made 'normal', not just by the way that we produce and consume, but by the absence of easy alternatives

  Margaret Beckett

  Future, Way, Normal

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• The longest and most destructive party ever held is now into its fourth generation and still no one shows any signs of leaving. The problem of when the drink is going to run out is, however, going to have to be faced one day. The planet over which they are floating is no longer the planet it was when they first started floating over it. It is in bad shape

  Douglas Adams

  Running, Future, Party

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• Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that seems abstract - sustainable development - and turn it into a reality for all the world's people

  Kofi Annan

  Future, Reality, Ideas

  "Annan pleads with west as environment is pushed up UN agenda". www.theguardian.com.

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• We have a situation where we are rich really as a world overall, and yet we have the capacity to destroy ourselves, either through nuclear weapons or through environmental degradation, and we allow the life chances of hundreds of millions of people to be destroyed because we haven't found the will to tackle it

  Tony Blair

  Future, People, Environmental

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• Whatever the short term clashes between protecting the environment and eradicating poverty, medium term and long term it is clear. Unless we grow sustainably, at some point we face catastrophe

  Tony Blair

  Future, Long, Poverty

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• Let us give something to each person we meet: joy, courage, hope, assurance, or philosophy, wisdom, a vision for the future. Let us always give something.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Philosophy

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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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• 'Sustainable Development' is an oxymoron. 'Development' in all it's senses entails expansion and wanting more. Continual expansion and wanting more are unsustainable. Globally we are approaching the point when the only sustainable way forward is to want less. Indeed, the choice element may be removed from us and we will just have to have less. In the meantime we still have some choices about how to influence our future

  Don Johnston

  Future, Way Forward, Choices

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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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