T Quotes
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“The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule.”
“The vision that you glorify in your mind, the Ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, this you will become.”
Source: As a Man Thinketh: The Secret Edition – Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams
“The visionary disciplines himself to see the world always as if he had only just seen it for the first time.”
Source: The essential Colin Wilson
“The visionary impulse giving rise to apocalyptic eschatology tends to be strongest among those embracing the prophetic promise of Yahweh's restoration of the faithful but at the same time witnessing the political and cultic structures of their nation falling into the hands of adversaries, thereby vitiating the possibility of fulfillment within the existing order of things. The pragmatic or realistic impulse tends to be strongest among those exercising control over political and religious structures; they often actively oppose the visionaries, viewing them as a threat to their position of leadership.”
Source: The Dawn of Apocalyptic: The Historical and Sociological Roots of Jewish Apocalyptic Eschatology
“The visionary is the one who brings his or her voice into the world and who refuses to edit, rehearse, perform, or hide. It is the visionary who knows that the power of creativity is aligned with authenticity.”
“The visionary is the only realist.”
“The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.”
“The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.”
“The visionary who is serving God ceases to live for personal ambitions, but rather for God's ambitions.”
“The visionless officialized fatuityThat once kept Europe safe for Perpetuity.”
Source: Collected Poems
“The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures.”
“The visions of the INFJs tend to concern human welfare, and their contributions are likely to be made independent of a mass movement.”
Source: Gifts differing: understanding personality type
“The visions of the magical beauty of morning flowers in the twilights of the dawn gives the glimpses of the eternity.”
“The visions scared me. And I was scared to tell anyone about them. I didn’t want them to think I was a freak. Maybe I was. That scared me, too.”
Source: Milayna
“The visions we offer our children shape the future.”
Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
“The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps.”
Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
“The visit, like all visits home for a long time now, has been an obscure failure. When is it we cease to be able to go back, truly go back? What secret door is it that closes?”
Source: Pure
“The visitor enters and says, "What a lot of books! Have you read them all?" ...The best answer is the one always used by Roberto Leydi: "And more, dear sir, many more," which freezes the adversary and plunges him into a state of awed admiration. But I find it merciless and angst-generating. Now I have fallen back on the riposte: "No, these are the ones I have to read by the end of the month. I keep the others in my office.”
“The visitor shrugged. "Like euthanasia? I'm sorry, Father, I feel that the laws of a society are what make something a crime or not a crime. I'm aware that you don't agree. And there can be bad laws, ill conceived, true. But in this case, I think we have a good law. If I thought I had such a thing as a soul, and that there was an angry God in Heaven, I might agree with you.”
Source: A Canticle For Leibowitz
“The Visitors reported by contactees, abductees, and other witnesses may, in fact, be a highly advanced amphibian or reptilian culture from an extraterrestrial world, who evolved into the dominant species on their planet millions of years ago and who have interacted in Earth's evolution as explorers, observers, caretakers, and genetic engineers.”
Source: Real Aliens, Space Beings, and Creatures from Other Worlds
“The visits Prime Minister Koizumi made to the Yasukuni Shrine, I believe, had nothing to do with approval ratings. He paid respects at the Yasukuni Shrine to pay respects to the people of Japan who fought and lost their lives for the country and to pray for the peace of their souls.”
“The vista opened onto a frozen lake where the cold sun filtered through snow draped branches, creating frosty halos across the water.”
Source: The Snow Queen
“The vistas of possibility are only limited by the shortness of life.”
“The visual and literary arts are of perennial interest to me, and these art forms have become more and more a part of my life; they have become companions of sorts. I cannot imagine my day to day experiences without the presence of these art forms. They're absolutely essential.”
“The visual and the popular are essential.”
Source: Carnival
“The visual arts must communicate to the human spirit, forcing individuals to reflect on themselves and their existence beyond their own self-interest.”
“The visual arts will one day be king. The pop stars and celebrities soon to be forgotten.”
“The visual can seduce you, leading to false deductions, and ultimately, even the finest ideas can be reduced. Take for example, sexuality. If it is reduced down to the moment and to pleasure, things like that, that's not what sexuality is all about. Sexuality was to be in tandem with the sacred, not amputated from it.”
“The visual does seem to me the most thoroughly grasped and recorded among my impressions; sight seems to be my principal sense organ, and "seeing" supplies the key metaphors for reporting the perception.”
“The visual image is a kind of tripwire for the emotions.”
Source: A Natural History of the Senses
“The visual impact of a United States battleship springs from its ability to put Soviet ships on the bottom of the sea and to put devastating firepower ashore - nothing else.”
“The visual impact of the stupa on the observer brings a direct experience of inherent wakefulness and dignity. Stupas continue to be built because of their ability to liberate one simply upon seeing their structure”
“The visual is essentially pornographic, which is to say that it has its end in rapt, mindless fascination.”
Source: Signatures of the Visible
“The visual is everywhere in the streets, but in the industry, it's like you have to show up at this party and you can't take on the world in one day. It's a gradual process, but you can't let it frustrate you; you just have to keep grinding.”
“The visual is important. "Let's get to work" says let's get it done, and that's what they want.”
“The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images.”
Source: Sexual Personae
“The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.”
Source: Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field
“The visual nature of value stream maps enables consensus-building conversations across the organization, from the front lines to senior leaders.”
Source: Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation
“The visual of Satan isn’t one of a big red devil with horns. Even worse, it’s the picture of something good, twisted enough to be compelling.”
“The visual palette suggests the creepy pastel paintings of Guy Peellaert (Rock Dreams); the fantasy battles with monsters and samurais echo the muscular landscapes of Frank Frazetta and Boris Vallejo. The movie is like an arrested adolescent's Google search run amok.”
“The visual possibility of seeing the historical person (as opposed to the eternal Qur'anic man) on screen is arguably the single most important event allowing Iranians access to modernity.”
Source: Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past, Present, and Future
“The visual power of the phonetic alphabet is the translate other languages into itself is part of its power to invade right hemisphere (oral) cultures.”
“The visual quality of the cameras now is such that you can shoot with available light, and if people are willing to mount a microphone on the camera and maybe even on the subject, then you're good to go.”
“The visual side of being a performer or in a band is, to me, as important as the music. I know not everyone shares that same opinion, but when I'm writing songs or working on lyrics or coming up with an idea, I think about videos as I'm in the studio. If I had all the money in the world, I would have the most amazing videos ever, you know? You're saying grandiose, and big; if the song warrants it, I try to push the visuals as far as I can.”
“The visual system of the brain has the organization, computational profile, and architecture it has in order to facilitate the organism's thriving at the four Fs: feeding fleeing, fighting, and reproduction.”
“The visual world has blown up, the world of writing has blown up; there's so much text online. Anyone and everyone can express themselves. It's a lot to think about as an artist. Also, that the persona of the artist might actually be of some importance. When I came of age, it was important to be quiet and hang back and be mysterious. I knew artists who didn't even want to show up at their own openings. They never wanted to have their picture taken, didn't want to autograph a book, didn't want to answer a question. I came of age in a world where it was "Let the work speak for itself."”
“The visualization of my films is always very important to me and I work very closely with my cinematographers. I've never had the same cinematographer twice now that I think about it. I don't know why that is. Everyone is always busy. They do three or four films a year. It's vital to me.”
“The visually impaired are fortunate in that they don't have to see the ugly faces of crooked individuals.”
“The visuals and the audio, could stand by themselves in a way. But the whole idea of the thing, is that they would exist together. So I think together, they're way more of a stronger thing. You could listen to just the music, or just watch the video, but I think it would really mean... obviously it would just be half the experience.”
“The vital accessories to my work are my reference books, such as the complete Shakespeare and a prayer book, and a large refuse bin.”