A Quotes
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“A virtuous man or woman who is determined to develop the Supreme Enlightened Mind, should thus develop it: I have to lead all living beings to put a stop to (reincarnation) and escape (suffering), and when they have been so led, not one of them in fact stops (reincarnating) or escapes suffering. Why? Because, if a Bodhisattva believes in the notion of an ego, a personality, or a living being, he is not a true Bodhisattva.”
“A virtuous mind in a fair body is indeed a fine picture in a good light, and therefore it is no wonder that it makes the beautiful sex all over charms.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)
“A virtuous mother sows and sows seeds of greatness with great life in mind.”
“A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together.”
“A virtuous spouse adds years to your life, a wise one adds decades, but a loving one adds an eternity to your life.”
“A virtuous wife commands her husband by obeying him.”
“A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.”
“A virulent form of utopianism has indeed afflicted the modern age, but its name is not Marxism. It is the crazed motion that a single global system known as the free market can impose itself on the most diverse cultures and economies and cure all their ills. The purveyors of this totalitarian fantasy are not to be found hiding scar-faced and sinisterly soft-spoken in underground bunkers like James Bond villains. They are to be seen dining at upmarket Washington restaurants and strolling on Sussex estates.”
Source: Why Marx Was Right
“A virulent, aggressive minority has decided that Americans don’t know themselves what it is they should see, and need to be protected by people who are wiser than they are, even if they are only a tiny sliver of the population.”
“A virus can change the fate of the world; power has nothing to do with being tiny or giant! Power is something related to the power hidden within you!”
“A virus has three purposes: to duplicate, to infiltrate and to spread from one host to the next. Ultimately, even a single virus can shut down an entire system.”
“A virus is not just DNA; a virus is also packaged up, covered over with a series of proteins in a nice, elegant, well-compacted form.”
“A visible cloud of steam rose from a long wide pipe protruding from the roof of a large concrete factory-like building nearby, and the air all around was filled with the intensely savory scent of barbecue potato chips, a flavor being manufactured in quantity for one of Southern's vendors.
Grace knew that the barbecue scent came from a massive vat of liquefied compounds, which could be cooled and then poured into hundreds of fifty-five-gallon drums in the morning, carefully sealed, loaded onto tractor-trailers, and shipped out, to be warehoused for as long as two years and then, eventually, utilized in the industrial production of billions of pounds of highly processed potato-based snack foods. She knew what she smelled was a by-product from the manufacture of a highly concentrated chemical.
Nevertheless, the scent evoked picnics in the park, bag lunches in elementary school lunchrooms shared over laughter with her dearest friends, long-buried feelings from childhood that rose from her heart.”
Source: The Orchard
“A vision and strategy aren't enough. The long-term key to success is execution. Each day. Every day.”
“A vision could put you on a path you don't want to follow.”
“A vision flashed of a young, kind Penelope, the opposite of what he was. Of what he'd become.”
Source: A Rogue by Any Other Name
“A vision from God will motivate you. A vision for God will keep you on track. A vision from God will keep you moving and motivate you to press on to the mark of the high calling of God. This is why we need to have a vision. God's provision is directly linked to your expectation.”
“A vision has no cost,
Nothing can be lost!”
Source: Divine Action: The Art of Divination
“A vision has to be within reach not in the air. It has to be achievable.”
“A vision inspires, aligns, and directs. it says to other people, "here is what I am up to, come and play in my sandbox!”
Source: Reboot Your Life: A 12-day Program for Ending Stress, Realizing Your Goals, and Being More Productive
“A vision inspires and a mission guides.”
“A vision inspires necessity and necessity inspires action.”
“A vision is not a vision unless it says yes to some ideas and no to others, inspires people and is a reason to get out of bed in the morning and come to work.”
“A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.”
“A vision is not something we make up, it's something we are MADE OF.”
“A vision is something worth living for, and it is something worth dying for. In fact, if it is not worth dying for, it is not worth living for. Brave, godly martyrs throughout history have proven time and again that what we as Christians live for is worth dying for.”
Source: You The Leader
“A vision is something you see and others don't. Some people would say that's a pocket definition of lunacy. But it also defines entrepreneurial spirit.”
Source: Body and soul: profits with principles, the amazing success story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop
“A vision needs to show the future goals of your company and these goals need to be beneficial for all including your employees, customers, stakeholders, and most importantly, the environment.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“A vision of a desired future allows you to engage and identify immediately in your focus with an improved condition. It changes what you perceive and how you perform NOW. It's not about achieving something in time. It's rather about the quality of choices you are making in this moment - what you choose to perceive, feel, and do. It's about getting the most out of your experience.”
“A vision of Europe fit for the 21st century and a practical plan to deliver strong rights, decent jobs and livelihoods, with strong unions at its heart, is one worth fighting for.”
“A vision of growth, beyond future, is what makes a true leader different than others.”
Source: Modified Leadership
“A vision of the little house in Soho flickered across his mind’s eye, his mother at a desk, writing in her journal, with hazy sunlight streaming through the morning windows. The woman inhabited a world he had once thought his own – a world of publishers and reliable suppliers. A London that was confident and competent amid its grey, puddle-strewn streets.”
Source: On Starlit Seas
“A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.”
Source: The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Greek studies
“A vision of underground connections flashed before him again, only inverted. A towering construction like a tree strung with lights, shimmering, changing, and in the middle,
a darkness—the object or concept holding the visible together.”
Source: City on Fire
“A vision on its own is not enough. Hard work and dedication is required to make that vision a reality.”
“A vision should be judged by the clarity of its values, not the clarity of its implementation path [in Mediated Modeling page 43]”
“A vision statement encapsulates the long-term aspirations and goals of the school, inspiring stakeholders and providing a clear direction for growth and development”
“A vision we give to others of who and what they could become has power when it echoes what the spirit has already spoken into their souls.”
Source: Connecting: Healing Ourselves and Our Relationships
“A vision without a practical plan to develop it, is only that… “a vision.”
“A vision without a strategy remains an illusion.”
“A vision without action is called a daydream; but then again, action without a vision is called a nightmare.”
“A vision without an action is a daydream. An action without vision is a nightmare.”
“A vision without resources is an hallucination.”
“A vision, without a plan, is just a hallucination.”
“A Visionaire always takes a step back during a crisis to get out of their own way.”
Source: Vision to Reality: Stop Working, Start Living
“A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable.”
“A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable. A visionary company doesn't simply balance between preserving a tightly held core ideology and stimulating vigorous change and movement; it does both to an extreme.”
“A visionary company is like a great work of art. Think of Michelangelo's scenes from Genesis on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel or his statue of David. Think of a great and enduring novel like Huckleberry Finn or Crime and Punishment. Think of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony or Shakespeare's Henry V. Think of a beautifully designed building, like the masterpieces of Frank Lloyd Wright or Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. You can't point to any one single item that makes the whole thing work; it's the entire work-all the pieces working together to create an overall effect-that leads to enduring greatness.”
Source: Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work
“A visionary is a leader of excellence who sees what others do not see, who achieves for now and plans for the future, who positively impacts different generations and raises up other visionaries.”
“A visionary is beautifully romantic in solitude, having a spiritual affair with all that is otherworldly, reflecting a dimension of light.”