“Going through the grief period of my dad and losing him - that was the worst thing because you know when you get that call. When you are seven, eight years old, you have that almost vision in your mind of what that's going to be like and what your going to feel like and it doesn't prepare you.” KnowsFeelsYearsMindGriefVisionWorstDadPeriodsLosingSevenMy DadEightWorst ThingsOld YouLosing Him Author:Richie Sambora
“The Relativity theory, the copernican upheaval, or any great scientific convulsion, leaves a new landscape. There is a period of stunned dreariness; then people begin, antlike, the building of a new human world. They soon forget the last disturbance. But from these shocks they derive a slightly augmented vocabulary, a new blind spot in their vision, a few new blepharospasms or tics, and perhaps a revised method of computing time.” PeopleWorldHumansLastsForgetVisionBuildingTheoryPeriodsMethodBlindSpotsLandscapeShockVocabularyRelativityDisturbanceComputingStunnedUpheavalBlind SpotsTics Book:The Art of Being Ruled Source: The Art of Being Ruled
“During this period (of technological confinement / [and language]) the human mind has been placed in its narrowest confines it has experienced since consciousness emerged from its Paleolithic phase. Even the most primitive tribes have a larger vision of the universe, of our place and functioning within it, a vision that extends to celestial regions of space and to interior depths of the human in a manner far exceeding the parameters of our world of technological confinement.” WorldMindHumansHas BeensUniverseLanguageSpaceConsciousnessVisionPeriodsDepthRegionsOur WorldHuman MindPrimitivePhasesTechnologicalTribesInteriorsCelestialParametersConfinement Author:Thomas Berry
“Whenever you do any one thing intensely over a period of time you have to give up other lives you could be living. You have to have a real single-minded kind of tunnel vision if you want to get anything significant accomplished. Especially if the desire is not to be a businessman, but to be a creative person.” IfsWantGivingKindPersonsRealDesireVisionCreativeOne ThingPeriodsGiving UpInvestingSignificantAccomplishedBusinessmanTunnelsCreative PersonTunnel Vision Author:Steve Jobs
“It is ... marvellous ... to have a period of apparent fanaticism. No obstacle can discourage you. The single vision of your quest obscures defeat and lifts you over mountainous difficulties.” VisionPeriodsDifficultyDefeatObstaclesLiftsQuestsFanaticismDiscouragingMarvellous Author:Margaret Sanger
“King Fahd was a man of great vision and leadership who inspired his countrymen for a quarter of a century as king. He led Saudi Arabia through a period of unparalleled progress and development.” MenVisionProgressCenturyDevelopmentKingsPeriodsInspiredQuartersArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisCountrymenGreat VisionQuarter Of A CenturyProgress And Development Author:Tony Blair
“I think that every enduring story that has expressions over multiple periods, that role of being the keeper of the integrity of the vision is a very important role.” ThinkingImportantStoriesVisionRolesExpressionPeriodsIntegrityEndureMultipleKeepers Author:Christopher Meledandri
“The cultural products of America from this period [ fifties and sixties] are like a vision of paradise or something. I find it utterly intoxicating.” AmericaVisionProductsPeriodsParadiseSixty Author:Quentin S. Crisp