Vision Quotes - Page 35

• Gardener's , like everyone else, live second by second and minute by minute. What we see at one particular moment is then and there before us. But there is a second way of seeing. Seeing with the eye of memory, not the eye of our anatomy, calls up days and seasons past and years gone by.

  Allen Lacy

  Time, Memories, Spring

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• The true seeing is when there is no seeing.

  Shenhui

  Awe, Seeing

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• The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

  Publilius Syrus

  Photography, Eye, Love Life

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• Keep this point clear: central to discovering an experience's perceptual meaning is a recognition of its identity and its individuality.

  Edmund Blair Bolles

  Individuality, Identity, Recognition

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• I laugh when I hear the fish in the water is thirsty.

  Kabir

  Water, Laughing, Thirsty

  Kabir, Pritish Nandy, Gopal Sanyal (1983). “Love, the first syllable: the mystic songs of Kabir in Pritish Nandy's version”

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• Wherever you are is the entry point.

  Kabir

  Wise, Insight, Entry

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• If you don't know how you feel, you won't know what you want.

  Barbara Sher

  How You Feel, Want, Feels

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• Team learning is the Process of aligning and developing the capacity of a team to create the results its members desire. It builds on the discipline of developing a shared vision. It also builds on personal mastery, for talented teams are made up of talented individuals.

  Peter Senge

  Teamwork, Educational, Personal Mastery

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• I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight.

  Robin Green

  Sight, Lost, Concentrating

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• Personal mastery is the discipline of continually clarifying and deepening our personal vision, of focusing our energies, of developing patience, and of seeing reality objectively.

  Peter Senge

  Reality, Personal Mastery, Discipline

  Peter M Senge (2010). “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition”, p.14, Random House

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• It turns out that the process of working toward a goal, participating in a valued and challenging activity, is as important to well-being as its attainment.

  Sonja Lyubomirsky

  Goal, Challenges, Important

  Sonja Lyubomirsky (2007). “The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want”, p.172, Penguin

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• In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.

  Plato

  Order, Simplicity, Everyday

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• Web services fits into the original vision of the ASP model in that there are these functions out on the Internet and you can just go out there and rent them.

  Eric A. Meyer

  Internet, Fit, Function

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• It is striking how our language reveals the visual nature of our thoughts about the future state of affairs. When we invent the future, we try to get a mental picture of what things will be like long before we have begun the journey. Visions are our windows on the world of tomorrow.

  James M. Kouzes

  Communication, Journey, Long

  James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner (1987). “The leadership challenge: how to get extraordinary things done in organizations”, Jossey-Bass, 1988

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• I knew that most people never see this reality because they attach to the material aspect of the world. Illusions of self and other fill their vision. I also realized there are those with little dust limiting their vision.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Reality, Self

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• One who thinks and reflects develops his foresight and vision.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Educational, Thinking, Foresight

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• In his garden every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation. Each within his green enclosure is a creator, and no two shall reach the same conclusion; nor shall we, any more than other creative workers, be ever wholly satisfied with our accomplishment. Ever a season ahead of us floats the vision of perfection and herein lies its perennial charm.

  Louise Wilder

  Art, Lying, Apology

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• When you make a choice to be of service to others, you gain the courage and sense of determination that will fuel your efforts. With a solid vision in place, you also become less concerned with your individual fear or self-doubt and more committed to taking the actions that will support your larger vision.

  Cheryl Richardson

  Determination, Helping Others, Self

  Cheryl Richardson (2002). “Stand Up for Your Life: Develop the Courage, Confidence, and Character to Fulfill Your Greatest Potential”

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• The deep inequalities that persist are visible reminders of the effects of apartheid and colonialism. Until these scars are healed, the vision of our Constitution will not have been achieved.

  Kate O'Regan

  Colonialism, Poverty, Scar

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• The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Children, Creativity, Imagination

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.47, Penguin

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• Opening to the sacred, we transform our vision of ourselves.

  Stephanie Dowrick

  Life, Sacred, Opening

  Stephanie Dowrick (2011). “Seeking the Sacred: Transforming Our View of Ourselves and One Another”, p.89, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• On seeing one thing, you see all things. On perceiving an individual's mind, you perceive all mind. Glimpse one truth, and all truth is present in your vision, for there is nowhere at all that is devoid of the Truth.

  Huangbo Xiyun

  Mind, Glimpse, Awareness

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• Having purpose and vision during retirement is one of the most important determinants of mental, social, spiritual, and physical well-being in later life.

  Harold George Koenig

  Spiritual, Retirement, Important

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• The more attached we are to a vision of the future, the less present we are to what is actually trying to emerge here and now.

  Peter Merry

  Future, Attachment, Trying

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• The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

  Plato

  Philosophical, Eye, Soul

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