“Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. Action, self-reliance, the vision of self and the future have been the only means by which the oppressed have seen and realized the light of their own freedom.” PeopleMeanHas BeensSelfLightActionSufferingChanceVisionSatisfiedOppressedSelf RelianceRelianceMemorialMemorial DayMemorial Day RemembranceMemorial Day Messages Book:Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey Source: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey
“Paranoia imposes its own vision on the external world; it differs from other kinds of visionary experience in that the paranoid wants others to share his view—even insists on it. Paranoia is very like poetic creativity. This accounts for my fascination with certain people in whom this state of mind was evident: ‘characters’ met by chance, whose words and gestures would haunt me for years until, finally, in a poem I was able to dispel them.” PeopleWorldWantYearsMindKindStatesCharacterAbleCertainChanceViewsVisionCreativityShareMetsAccountsPoeticState Of MindGesturesEvidentFascinationVisionariesParanoiaParanoid Author:Louis Simpson
“This is a human form in which every Divine entity, every Divine principle, that is to say, all the names and forms ascribed by man to God, are manifest... You are very fortunate that you have the chance to experiences the bliss of the vision of the form, which is the form of all gods, now, in this life itself.” MenHumansFormNamesChanceVisionPrinciplesDivineThis LifeFortunateBlissManifestEntityHuman Form Author:Sathya Sai Baba
“With a single drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian sorcerer undertakes to reveal to any chance comer far-reaching visions of the past. This is what I undertake to do for you, reader.” BookPastChanceVisionReaderMirrorsReachingInkEgyptian Book:Adam Bede Source: Adam Bede
“People tried to do a lot of stuff with me early in my career where they tried to shape me into one thing or another. They couldn't just take the chance and go with my vision - which was just my intuition, really.” PeopleStuffChanceVisionCareersOne ThingShapesIntuition Author:Katy Perry
“After the fever of life--after wearinesses, sicknesses, fightings and despondings, languor and fretfulness, struggling and failing, struggling and succeeding--after all the changes and chances of this troubled and unhealthy state, at length comes death--at length the white throne of God--at length the beatific vision.” StatesFightingHeavenChanceWhiteVisionStruggleFailingSucceedSicknessLengthThronesFeverUnhealthyWeariness Book:Parochial and Plain Sermons Source: Parochial and Plain Sermons
“When you have your chance to make a film, don't focus on pleasing everyone. I think the goal is to live in that sweet spot where you focus on making a good film and you have fun with your collaborators, but you don't waste your energy chasing approval every which way. When you have a vision and a good story and you've managed to raise funding, it is your approval as a director that everyone should be seeking. It's very simple.” ThinkingWayShouldStoriesFilmEnergyFunGoalChanceSimpleVisionFocusSweetDirectorsWasteRaisesSeekingSpotsHaving FunApprovalChasingFundingGood StoryCollaboratorsGood FilmsPleasing Everyone Author:Jennifer Phang
“Serendipitous discoveries are made by chance, found without looking for them but possible only through a sharp vision and sagacity, ready to see the unexpected and never indulgent with the apparently unexplainable.” MadeFoundChanceVisionReadyDiscoveryUnexpectedSagacityUnexplainable Author:Horace Walpole