Best Vision Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values, new institutions and new visions of an America beyond traditional racial categories and racial oppression.”

Source: Beyond Black and White: Transforming African-American Politics

“I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.”

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Author:Thom Mayne

“You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.”

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Author:Ben Nicholson

“From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're positive. They're good. He thinks he's got a good vision for America.”

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Author:Barbara Olson

“APA is another evolution in my career; they have unique vision and share my goals for the future. I look forward to expanding our horizons together.”

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Author:Paul Oakenfold

“Obama still has work to do with the vision thing. Convincing voters that he has a credible, practical plan to turn the nation around is a process, not a speech.”

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Author:Ron Fournier

“We can go back to economic plans that are only designed to benefit the wealthiest among us, like Mitt Romney. Or we can keep moving forward with President Obama's vision for a growing economy that works for middle-class families in North Carolina and all across the country. For me, for North Carolina and for America, it's an easy choice.”

“It's important to be true to yourself and your vision.”

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Author:Nicole Polizzi

“The Democrats' agenda isn't working for women. Their vision has produced big government and limited opportunity. Our vision is for limited government and opportunity for all. Women deserve better than what President Obama has delivered.”

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Author:Reince Priebus

“In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.”

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Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf

“The ultimate vision is to instate in the Muslim world the notion of multiculturalism, which is part of our heritage and history, part of the fundamental, mainstream ideals of Islam.”

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Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf

“My vision is that our country should be integrated in the EU, to transfer a part of our independence there. It is also our duty to do it, if we want to establish trade and a sound economy. This is the vision that I am working on and I will continue to work in the future.”

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Author:Ibrahim Rugova

“I've learned some exciting things - mostly, that people really want to help each other; and that, if you can lay out a vision for them - and that vision is sincere and genuine - they'll get interested.”

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Author:Michael J. Fox

“Believe me, I love commerce as much as the rest of the readers of 'Businessweek.' But in art, you have to be true to yourself and your musical vision. People have known me well for a long time, so if I was chasing a trend and doing something that wasn't authentic to who I am, they would know it in just a few seconds.”

“It's really hard as a screenwriter, you feel like you have a vision and then you turn it over to a director and you have to let it go.”

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Author:Lorene Scafaria

“I've had the thought that a person's 'artistic vision' is really just the cumulative combination of whatever particular stances he has sincerely occupied during his creative life - even if some of those might appear contradictory.”

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Author:George Saunders

“In 'The General Strike,' we celebrate those who bring a new vision for the world to the table. People who stand for workers rights, human rights, a just representative political system, and a new mode of doing business where sustainability is the norm not the exception.”

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Author:Justin Sane

“President Obama and our all-of-the-above energy strategy is the real deal. We are proud of the fact that we are importing less oil than at any time in modern history, and it has been because of the president's vision and courage.”

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Author:Ken Salazar

“At some point he has to show that he has a vision of a better way. He can't just say 'The future is bleak, follow me.' Because no one will.”

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Author:Mark McKinnon

“Within silence all things are contained. What appears to our eyes to be life is but a thin curtain, a gauze penumbra, which stultifies our vision, which prevents us from seeing the truth.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“The dominant orthodoxy in development economics was that Third World countries were trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty that could be broken only by massive foreign aid from the more prosperous industrial nations of the world. This was in keeping with a more general vision on the Left that people were essentially divided into three categories - the heartless, the helpless, and wonderful people like themselves, who would rescue the helpless by playing Lady Bountiful with the taxpayers' money.”

Source: Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays

“It's always special when you're young and you have a vision for something you want to do, and somebody takes a moment to connect with you. Now if there are kids on the set I try to talk to them for a bit.”

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Author:Jeremy Sumpter

“When I was 18 the vision was to make music that didn't exist, because everything else was so unsatisfactory.”

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Author:Mark E. Smith

“In order to get somewhere in life, you need to have a vision. The vision brings you to the table. Without a vision, you just do what everybody else does and you are just there.”

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Author:Michael Schenker

“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.”

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Author:Richie Sambora

“NFL Films has had one continuous, creative vision for 47 years. These are timeless things; timeless stories that we capture just like people go back and read Greek mythology.”

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Author:Steve Sabol

“Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director.”

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Author:Tom Skerritt

“You see, without hard work and responsibility, there is no American Dream. Hard work lays the foundation. Our solidarity makes work pay - for all of us. For the greater good. That's what our vision of shared prosperity is all about.”

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Author:Richard Trumka

“We can support President Barack Obama, because he supports us. We can support Barack Obama, because he shares our values and our vision.”

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Author:Richard Trumka

“Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good... Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.”

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Author:Pope Francis

“I think a lot of people have a vision of L.A. in which TV executives and movie directors plan their latest productions by the swimming pool.”

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Author:Bruno Tonioli

“STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.”

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Author:George Takei

“An imposing wall prominently divides the visions of President Obama and congressional Republicans when it comes to economic growth and creating jobs. Solyndra is on one side and the Keystone pipeline is on the other.”

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Author:Fred Upton

“In my view, a political vision is not a grab-bag of discrete problems and solutions. It is the visionary anticipation of a direction.”

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Author:Roberto Unger

“There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.”

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Author:Robert Frank

“Having strength, having a strong military, is the ally of peace. Exercising that strength through military action is not always necessary if you have the confidence and clarity of vision and purpose which America demands.”

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Author:Mitt Romney

“We have a 'now you see Him, now you don't' God. We have Himself clothed in visions, in dreams, in metaphors, in parables, in the poetry of the Bible, and in all the ordinariness of the lives we live.”

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Author:Luci Shaw

“O supreme and unapproachable light! O whole and blessed truth, how far art thou from me, who am so near to thee! How far removed art thou from my vision, though I am so near to thine! Everywhere thou art wholly present, and I see thee not. In thee I move, and in thee I have my being; and I cannot come to thee. Thou art within me, and about me, and I feel thee not.”

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Book:Anselm's Philosophy

Source: Anselm's Philosophy

“When you develop your psychic vision after some meditation, you will be able to see the subtle physical of others, or perhaps yourself. At first you will see it as an aura; eventually you can see the whole subtle physical.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is possible with pure willpower to force the kundalini up the shushumna, through the chakras. You will develop visions of other worlds that will not necessarily stop when you want them to. This is a condition we call insanity.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“We live in a world in which the only utopian visions arrive in commercial breaks: magical visions of an impossibly hospitable world, peopled by bright-eyed attractive men, women, children... Where nobody dies... In my worlds people died. And I thought that was honest. I thought I was being honest.”

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Author:Neil Gaiman

“Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan.”

“To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan.”

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Author:Alfred Armand Montapert

“Vision stands on the shoulders of what is actual to get a better view of what is possible.”

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Book:Simply An Inspired Life: Consciously Choosing Unbounded Happiness in Good Times & Bad

Source: Simply An Inspired Life: Consciously Choosing Unbounded Happiness in Good Times & Bad

“The man who sets out to live the life worthwhile-to follow his vision and speak his heart-need not look for position, honors, prosperity.”

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Author:Vance Havner

“Protect your vision. Prevail over adversity. Persevere in the midst of turmoil. Passionately act upon your convictions. Purposely walk into the day.”

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Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“There is a master way with words that cannot be learned but instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper.”

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Author:Criss Jami

“Many of us in Congress have been calling on the Administration to articulate a bold mission for NASA. It seems that the President is answering that call. I wholeheartedly support his vision for going back to the moon, and from there to worlds beyond.”

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Author:Sheila Jackson Lee

“The vision of a nation formed from many different peoples bound together by a common love of freedom was staked out long before our lifetimes or even our parents' or grandparents' lifetimes.”

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Author:Trent Lott

“The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone - in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.”

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Author:Al Franken

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