Vision Quotes - Page 36

• A vision without a strategy remains an illusion.

  Lee Bolman

  Monday, Morning, Illusion

  "Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership". Book by Lee Bolman and Terrence E. Deal, 1991.

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• The faith of those who live their faith is a serene faith. What you long for will be given you; what you love will be yours for ever. Since it is by giving alms that everything is pure for you, you will also receive that blessing which is promised next by the Lord: the Godhead that no man has been able to see. In the inexpressible joy of this eternal vision, human nature will possess what eye has not seen or ear heard, what man's heart has never conceived.

  Pope Leo I

  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

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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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• What politician ever thinks beyond 4 or 5 years? But such thinking is hopelessly inadequate for the big questions that involve the fabric of the world we live in

  Simon Barnes

  Future, Thinking, Years

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• We need to shed our unearthly and nonsocial and idealistic and romantic and uber-spiritual visions of kingdom and get back to what Jesus meant. By kingdom, Jesus means: God's Dream Society on earth, spreading out from the land of Israel to encompass the whole world.

  Scot McKnight

  Dream, Spiritual, Jesus

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• Building a world where we meet our own needs without denying future generations a healthy society is not impossible, as some would assert. The question is where societies choose to put their creative efforts

  Christopher Flavin

  Future, Effort, Creative

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• Sustainability is a set of conditions and trends in a given system that can continue indefinitely

  Alan AtKisson

  Future, Trends, Sustainability

  Alan AtKisson (2012). “The ISIS Agreement: How Sustainability Can Improve Organizational Performance and Transform the World”, p.110, Earthscan

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• The very act of committing an experience to the page is necessarily an act of reduction, and regardless of craft or skill, vision or voice, the result is a story beholden to and inevitably eclipsed by source material.

  Bret Anthony Johnston

  Skills, Voice, Stories

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• The worst thing you can do to anybody trying to be creative is to demand participation in their vision.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Design, Creative, Trying

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• That is now my mission: to provide a European vision of growth, employment, prosperity - in one word, our future.

  Francois Hollande

  Growth, Employment, Prosperity

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• The essence of leadership is not giving things or even providing visions. It is offering oneself and one's spirit.

  Lee Bolman

  Leadership, Offering, Essence

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• We are not deceived by their pretenses to piety. We have seen their kind before. They are the heirs of all the murderous ideologies of the 20th century. By sacrificing human life to serve their radical visions - by abandoning every value except the will to power - they follow in the path of fascism, and Nazism, and totalitarianism. And they will follow that path all the way, to where it ends: in history's unmarked grave of discarded lies.

  George W. Bush

  Lying, Sacrifice, Presidential

  Address to Joint Session of Congress Following 9/11 Attacks, delivered 20 September 2001

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  You have to keep your vision clear, cause only a coward lives in fear.

  Nas

  Hip Hop, Coward, Causes

  Song: Friends

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• Truth brings light, light refracts off the mirror,
  Visions of yourself and error could never be clearer.
  The truth is that you ugly...
  Not on the outside, but in the inside;
  On the outside, you frontin' you lovely.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Rap, Errors, Mirrors

  Song: The Truth

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• The vision is always to point one to God and to Christ our Savior and to give Him the glory for our actions. We are encouraged to see the hope that Christ brings into our lives and to share the encouragement with our friends and neighbors.

  Mike Reese

  God, Encouragement, Giving

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• Environmentalism is not about the environment. It is about people. It is about a vision for a better life-for people.

  Colin Beavan

  People, Environment, Better Life

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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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• 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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• A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her

  George Bernard Shaw

  People, Giving, Energy

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• A genuine sense of humor is having a light touch: not beating reality into the ground but appreciating reality with a light touch. The basis of Shambhala vision is rediscovering that perfect and real sense of humor, that light touch of appreciation.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Appreciation, Real, Light

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings”, p.23, Shambhala Publications

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• This is a vision Kaufman and Broad shares with Henry Cisneros, and together we have the resources and expertise to make vital new neighborhoods a reality.

  Bruce Karatz

  Reality, Together, Share

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• Do not allow doubt to distract you if only you will install in the altar of your heart steady faith in My Divinity, you can win a vision of My Reality.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Heart, Winning, Reality

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• Good design today requires more vision (a larger point of view versus the single brilliant idea), more consistency (a deeper underlying structure of language and form versus the simple, uniform application of visual elements) and more patience (persistence over time versus creative authoritarianism).

  William Drenttel

  Simple, Persistence, Ideas

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• Be happy when you reach the top: cry, clap your hands, shout to the four winds that you did it, let the wind - the wind is always blowing up there - purify your mind, refresh your tired and sweaty feet, open your eyes, clean the dust from your heart. It feels so good, what was just a dream before, a distant vision, is now part of your life, you did it!

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Dream, Inspiration

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• Now the two primal Spirits, who reveal themselves in vision as Twins, are the Better and the Bad, in thought and word and action. Between these two the wise ones chose aright; the foolish not so.

  Zoroaster

  Life, Wise, Two

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