Vision Quotes - Page 38

• Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.

  Edward Steichen

  Awe, Feels, Seeing

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• Artistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Falling In Love, Artistic, Clarity

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• Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fun, Dull, Quiet

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• But under the beaming, constant and almost vertical sun of Virginia, shade is our Elysium. In the absence of this no beauty of the eye can be enjoyed.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Beauty, Eye, Virginia

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1541, Library of America

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• We do a lot of looking: we look through lenses, telescopes, television tubes... Our looking is perfected every day, but we see less and less.

  Frederick Franck

  Lenses, Looks, Telescopes

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• Thus we cannot escape the fact that the world we know is constructed in order to see itself. This is indeed amazing. Not so much in view of what it sees, although this may appear fantastic enough, but in respect of the fact that it can see at all. But in order to do so, evidently it must first cut itself up into a least one state which sees, and at least one other state which is seen.

  George Spencer-Brown

  Cutting, Views, Order

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• Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Wisdom, Learning, Creativity

  Attributed to Szent-Györgyi in "Bridging the Present and the Future: IEEE Professional Communication Society Conference Record, Williamsburg, Virginia, October 16-18, 1985", p. 14, 1985.

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• Yet mystery and imagination arise from the same source. This source is called darkness ... Darkness within darkness, the gateway to all understanding.

  Laozi

  Light, Darkness Within, Imagination

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• But we have been taught to see before our eyes have found out a way of seeing for themselves.

  Arthur Symons

  Eye, Way, Taught

  Arthur Symons (1924). “The collected works of Arthur Symons”

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• I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.

  Edvard Munch

  Saws, Paint, Awe

  Elizabeth Prelinger, Edvard Munch, High Museum of Art (2001). “After The Scream: The Late Paintings of Edvard Munch”, p.38, Yale University Press

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• Every fight is one between different angles of vision illuminating the same truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Different, Angle

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• Of course the Dharma-body of the Buddha was the hedge at the bottom of the garden. At the same time, and no less obviously, it was these flowers, it was anything that I - or rather the blessed Not-I - cared to look at.

  Aldous Huxley

  Flower, Blessed, Garden

  Aldous Huxley (2009). “The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• When your eyes are functioning well you don't see your eyes. If your eyes are imperfect you see spots in front of them. That means there are some lesions in the retina or wherever, and because your eyes aren't working properly, you feel them. In the same way, you don't hear your ears. If you have a ringing in your ears it means there's something wrong with your ears. Therefore, if you do feel yourself, there must be something wrong with you. Whatever you have, the sensation of I is like spots in front of your eyes - it means something's wrong with your functioning.

  Alan Watts

  Mean, Eye, Imperfection

  Alan Watts (1977). “The essence of Alan Watts”, Celestial Arts Publishing Company

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• Now is the time of the illuminated woods ... when every leaf glows like a tiny lamp.

  John Burroughs

  Spring, Lamps, Woods

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• Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.

  David Miliband

  Empathy, Analysis, Policy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Urgency and vision are the twin pillars on which humanity's hope now hangs.

  Christopher Flavin

  Humanity, Climate, Pillars

  Christopher Flavin, Amanda Chiu, Lisa Mastny (2008). “Low-carbon Energy: A Roadmap”, p.36, Worldwatch Institute

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• One essential ingredient for being an original in the day of copies is courageous vision.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Essentials, Ingredients, Courageous

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• No vision is worth the paper it's printed on unless it is communicated constantly and reinforced with rewards.

  Jack Welch

  Paper, Rewards, Printed

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• In a learning organization, leaders are designers, stewards, and teachers. They are responsible for building organizations where people continually expand their capabilities to understand complexity, clarify vision, and improve shared mental models - that is, they are responsible for learning.

  Peter Senge

  Teacher, Organization, People

  "The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization". Book by Peter Senge, 1990.

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• The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values - carefully thought about, selected and internalized values.

  Stephen Covey

  Essence, People, Feelings

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.98, Mango Media Inc.

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• Vision is a lot more than putting a plaque on the wall. A real vision is lived, not framed.

  Ken Blanchard

  Wall, Real, Framed

  Ken Blanchard, Jesse Stoner (2011). “Full Steam Ahead!: Unleash the Power of Vision in Your Work and Your Life”, p.122, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• As a servant leader the way you serve the vision is by developing people so that they can work on that vision even when you're not around. The ultimate sin of an effective servant leader is what happens when you are not there. That was the power of Jesus' leadership-the leaders He trained went on to change the world when He was no longer with them in bodily form.

  Ken Blanchard

  Inspiring, Leadership, Jesus

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• Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.

  Stephen Covey

  Mind, Principles, Personal Worth

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.377, Mango Media Inc.

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• Frustration is a function of our expectations, and our expectations are often a reflection of the social mirror rather than our own values and priorities.

  Stephen Covey

  Reflection, Frustration, Mirrors

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.206, Mango Media Inc.

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• Winning the war on terrorism will also require a level of moral clarity that can provide a vision for struggling people and nations everywhere.

  Adam Schiff

  War, Struggle, Winning

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