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“The difference between art and craft lies not in the tools you hold in your hands, but in the mental set that guides them. For the artisan, craft is an end in itself. For you, the artist, craft is the vehicle for expressing your vision. Craft is the visible edge of art.”

Inspirational Art Ends Hands Motivational Lying Artist Differences Vision Tools Edges Guides Crafts Visible Vehicle Artisans Arts And Crafts

Book:Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

Source: Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

“Lesson for the day: vision is always ahead of execution - and it should be.”

Should Vision Lessons Execution

Book:Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

Source: Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

“Fear and hatred are the legacy of Ronald Reagan. America's vision of peace and freedom [is being] blasted by the guns of the U.S. Navy in Lebanon, the guns of U.S. paratroopers in Grenada, and the guns of U.S. helicopters in Honduras and El Salvador.”

America Vision Gun Hatred Legacy Navy American Politics Helicopters Lebanon El Salvador Honduras Grenada Paratroopers

Author:Alan Cranston

“We were to found a University magazine. A pair of little, active brothers-Livingstone by name, great skippers on the foot, great rubbers of the hands, who kept a book-shop over against the University building-had been debauched to play the part of publishers. We four were to be conjuct editors and, what was the main point of the concern, to print our own works; while, by every rule of arithmetic-that flatterer of credulity-the adventure must succeed and bring great profit. Well, well: it was a bright vision.”

Source: Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)

“I think we all have experiences when we were young where we either had an interaction with someone we admired or you know, had a vision of how they were and found out that they weren't necessarily that and that it tends to be a big let down sometimes.”

Thinking Knows Sometimes Bigs Young Found Vision Interaction Let Down

Author:John Cena

“I think I'm an extremely conscientious producer and now equally as a director and it gives me the opportunity to look at the entire movie and really allow the movie to be the creative vision of the actors, the writer and myself, because I'm in charge of it from a producer and a director point of view.”

Thinking Giving Looks Actors Opportunity Views Vision Creative Directors Give Me Point Of View Producers Creative Vision

Author:Tony Krantz

“I lived in a cabin in the woods in Oregon, and I'd basically given up on the music industry for an indefinite amount of time. And while I was out there, I came up with a very specific vision of what I wanted my music to sound like.”

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Author:Skylar Grey

“I like what a third man brings. A kind of oblique vision, seeing something in the material that you didn't know was there. As a comedian, I'm always listening to the audience. And in movies, sometimes the only audience you have is the producer and the director. I like having someone else's opinion, especially if you're on the same wavelength.”

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Author:Steve Martin

“I usually cast myself in things because acting is how I best relate to artistic impulses. It's what I've wanted to do since I was a child, so a scene usually plays itself out in my head with me performing it. And if I cast myself that's one less person I have to pay, one less person I have to explain my vision to, one less person I have to worry about.”

Ifs Children Persons Play Wanted Pay Acting Vision Worry Scene Casts Artistic Relate Impulse Performing

Author:Amber Sealey

“My vision of punk rock was these dudes who were spitting on the audience and moshing. That's why I kind of left that scene. Then I see all these people around my same age or between 17 and 25 that were making music themselves in their own town. They weren't just singing, but creating. I see them putting out this music where there are tons of women involved in the scene and involved in the bands.”

People Kind Age Left Vision Audience Rocks Involved Scene Band Creating Singing Towns Punk Punk Rock

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?”

States Lost Accepting Vision Demand Inevitable Fallen Inferiors Detrimental Mesmerized

Book:Silent Spring

Source: Silent Spring

“The one thing that fills me with enthusiasm is to try, despite everything, to get nearer to those visions that seem so hard to express.”

Trying Hard Seems Vision One Thing Despite Enthusiasm

Book:Cézanne & Giacometti: paths of doubt

Source: Cézanne & Giacometti: paths of doubt

“If I had not had music in my life, I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright.”

Ifs Would Be Vision Playwright

Author:Marsha Norman

“Rock bottom is an inability to cope with the commonplace that is so extreme it makes even the grandest and loveliest things unbearable...Rock bottom is everything out of focus. It's a failure of vision, a failure to see the world as it is, to see the good in what it is, and only to wonder why the hell things look the way they do and not some other way.”

World Way Looks Wonder Vision Hell Focus Rocks Bottom Extremes Inability Unbearable Commonplace

Author:Elizabeth Wurtzel

“You have to believe in yourself and only trust your own vision and instincts. If Id listened to what other people thought about my work in the first 10 years that I was a writer, I never would have made it to begin with.”

People Ifs Years Firsts Believe Made Vision Instinct Made It Believe In Yourself Believe In You

Author:Philipp Meyer

“When people commit themselves to a certain vision of reality, it becomes their ultimate explainer. It serves to interpret the universe for them, to guide their moral decisions, to give meaning and purpose to life, and all the other functions normally associated with a religion.”

People Giving Reality Purpose Certain Universe Decision Moral Vision Ultimate Function Guides Commit Moral Decisions

Book:Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes

Source: Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes

“Apple is so focused on its vision that it does things in a very careful, deliberate way.”

Way Doe Vision Careful Focused Apples Deliberate

Author:John Sculley

“I don't want to participate in traditional Indian religious ceremonies - dance in a sun dance or pray in a sweat lodge or go on a vision quest with the help of a medicine man. The power of these ceremonies has an appeal, but I'm content with what little religion I already have.”

Men Want Littles Helping Religious Vision Sun Goes On Praying Medicine Traditional Appeals Indian Sweat Quests Ceremony Lodges

Book:On the Rez

Source: On the Rez

“The best work we can all do is create the highest vision possible for our lives and be led by that vision to the greatest good.”

Eye Vision Our Lives Highest Blindness Best Work

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“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.”

People Ideas Reason Vision Morning Inspire Bed

Author:Gifford Pinchot

“Prophets, mystics, poets, scientific discoverers are men whose lives are dominated by a vision; they are essentially solitary men . . . whose thoughts and emotions are not subject to the dominion of the herd.”

Men Emotion Vision Subjects Poet Prophet Solitary Dominion Herds Thoughts And Emotions Solitary Man

Book:The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

“I think the success around any product is really about subtle insights. You need a great product and a bigger vision to execute against, but its really those small things that make the big difference.”

Thinking Needs Bigs Differences Vision Products Bigger Insight Subtle Small Things

Author:Chad Hurley

“Bob Dylan's one of the greatest blues singers of the western world; ancient art, on-the-spot improvisation, mind quickness, endless variation, classical formulae, prophetic vision, mighty wind-horse.”

World Mind Art Vision Wind Horse Western Ancient Singers Endless Spots Bob Dylan Variation Improvisation Prophetic Western World Quickness Ancient Art Mighty Wind

Author:Allen Ginsberg

“The only organized political party with a Christian vision of morality is the Libertarian Party.”

Christian Political Party Vision Morality Libertarian Organized Political Parties Libertarian Party

Author:Walter E. Williams

“We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision.”

People Needs Problem Vision Very Good Experts Providing Peripheral Vision

Author:Alvin Toffler

“Hong Kong represents the kind of Asia with which both West and East are comfortable... It offers, in that sense, a vision for the future of Asia.”

Kind Vision Offers Comfortable West East Asia Hong Kong

Author:Chris Patten

“Leadership is the ability to influence people and motivate them to do what needs to be done to accomplish a goal, vision, or mission.”

People Needs Done Goal Ability Vision Influence Accomplish Missions Influencing People

Author:Robert Johnson

“Casebook is my attempt at a love story. I had a vision of a difficult love.”

Stories Difficult Vision Love Story

Author:Mona Simpson

“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.”

“Big Star invented a vision of bohemian rock & roll cool that had nothing to do with New York, Los Angeles or London, which made them completely out of style in the 1970s, but also made them an inspiration to generations of weird Southern kids.”

Made Bigs Inspiration Kids Stars Vision Generations Rocks Style New York London Los Angeles Southern Bohemian

Author:Rob Sheffield

“If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are committed to grow, committed to change, committed to learn, then a spiritual assessment tool can work.”

People Ifs Real Together Spiritual Grows Vision Groups Tools Committed Discipleship Assessment

Author:Dallas Willard

“I will tell you the secret: God has had all that there was of me. There have been men with greater brains than I, even with greater opportunities, but from the day I got the poor of London on my heart and caught a vision of what Jesus Christ could do with me and them, on that day I made up my mind that God should have all of William Booth there was. And if there is anything of power in the Salvation Army, it is because God has had all the adoration of my heart, all the power of my will, and all the influence of my life.”

“For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more coming to a place where a person has a clear vision of his or her own life in a way that enables them to kind of throw down their crutches and walk.”

Way Kind Persons Bigs Walks Vision Clear Work Out Bows Happy Endings Crutches Clear Vision Things Work Out Everything Works Out

Author:Jill McCorkle

“Since cancer, I feel like I have dreams rather than ambitions, visions rather than plans.”

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Author:Eve Ensler

“Robert Vavra is one of these artists, part magician, part alchemist, who is able to create a series of photographs in unforgettable compositions. Only visible are the dunes, the blinding fields of flowers and the vast sky, the epic intimacy of Robert Vavra's vision.”

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Author:Peter Ustinov

“We cannot afford to exclude any vision - any way of looking at the world - that human beings have invented for ourselves.”

World Way Humans Human Beings Vision

Author:John Clute

“Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.”

Way Vision Steps Institutions Entrepreneur Old Ways

Author:Bill Drayton

“All things are created twice. All things. Vision is the first creation. For a house it's called the blueprint. For a life it's called a mission. For a day it's called a goal and a plan. For a parent it's called a belief in the unseen potential of a child. For all, it is the mental creation which always precedes the physical, or second, creation.”

Firsts Children House Belief Parent Goal Vision Plans Creation All Things Missions Unseen Blueprints

Book:Everyday Greatness: Inspiration for a Meaningful Life

Source: Everyday Greatness: Inspiration for a Meaningful Life

“It was interesting to find how dominating American vision is all over the world. I think there's something to be said about the world's mindset and its economics and all of that, and I think it affects the way we see ourselves and it affects music.”

Thinking World Way Said Interesting Vision Economics Mindset Dominating

Author:K'naan

“Fashion goes beyond fabric; it is the attempt to manifest art on a breathing canvas. I am very excited to collaborate with the artistic community as we celebrate this diversity of creative vision.”

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Author:David Dixon

“The first thing that strikes you about Timothy Murphys verse is the palpable texture of his line - that sound of sense practised by that other American poet-farmer, Robert Frost. And just as Murphys ear is trained on the rhythms of local speech and classical epigram, his eye holds fast on the image. This is an undeluded vision, sometimes bleak, often funny, and never less than painstakingly crafted.”

Firsts Sometimes Eye Sound Lines Vision Poet Speech Ears Strikes Locals Rhythm His Eyes Farmers Verses Texture Frost Bleak Epigrams Hold Fast

Author:Michael Donaghy

“One of the great unresolved psychological enigmas of the modern western world is the question of what or who has persuaded us to accept as virtually axiomatic a self-view and a world-view that demand we reject out of hand the wisdom and vision of our major philosophers and poets in order to imprison our thought and our very selves in the materialist, mechanical and dogmatic torture-chamber devised by purely quantitative and third-rate scientific minds.”

Source: Human image, world image: the death and resurrection of sacred cosmology

“The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.”

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Author:Mia Hamm

“Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.”

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Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“The last couple years they've been good, but it's just a great group of guys, and they were willing to take the vision that we gave them in the beginning of the season, and we started off really well, which I think helped. But as I mentioned, Andre's sacrifice, David Lee's sacrifice, their willingness to accept roles and keep pushing really was the key to the whole thing.”

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Author:Steve Kerr

“Recollections of the past and visions of the present come to bear me company; the meanest man to whom I have ever given alms appears, to add his mite of peace and comfort to my stock; and whenever the fire within me shall grow cold, to light my path upon this earth no more, I pray that it may be at such an hour as this, and when I love the world as well as I do now.”

Source: CHARLES DICKENS – The Complete Short Stories: 190+ Christmas Tales, Social Sketches, Tales for Children & Other Stories (Illustrated): A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Battle of Life, The Haunted Man, Sketches by Boz, Mudfog Papers, Reprinted Pieces, Pearl-Fishing, Christmas Stories, Child's Dream of a Star, Holiday Romance…

“I really just wanted to be a writer, but people tell you, 'You should have a backup career,' so I thought, 'OK, I'll act.' That was the foolishness of my vision for my life - that my backup career would be completely undependable.”

People Should Would Be Wanted Vision Careers Should Have Foolishness Backup Backup Singers

Author:Patti Davis

“The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.”

Sin Vision Cures Maintaining

Author:John Ortberg

“Leadership is about setting a direction. It's about creating a vision, empowering and inspiring people to want to achieve the vision, and enabling them to do so with energy and speed through an effective strategy. In its most basic sense, leadership is about mobilizing a group of people to jump into a better future.”

People Want Energy Vision Groups Achieve Creating Strategy Speed Setting Settings Empowering Enabling Better Future

Book:Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World

Source: Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World

“Love means to reach for the sky and with every breath to tear a hundred veils. Love means to step away from the ego, to open the eyes of inner vision and not to take this world so seriously”

World Mean Eye Vision Steps Sky This World Tears Ego Hundred Breaths Veils Love Means

Author:Rumi