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“My fantasy of Cuba was that everybody was going to be going around looking like Fidel, with green uniforms - and it was very different from my vision of how Cuba was going to be.”

Different Vision Fantasy Green Uniforms Cuba

Author:Assata Shakur

“Tourism has affected Cuba, because tourists come and they bring racist, sexist ideas. They bring a whole vision that there are rich people all over the world and that's the way it should be.”

People World Way Should Ideas Whole Vision Rich Racist Affected Rich People Cuba Tourists Tourism Sexist

Author:Assata Shakur

“All of my experience of studying religion, studying spirituality, studying natural healing, traditional medicine, has kind of enriched my vision of the world. Not only seeing reality as this moment, but as a culmination of all of the history behind us, and all of the fruit that hopefully we will be able to grow from the seeds that we are trying to plant, of goodness and peace and beauty and equality.”

World Trying Kind Moments Reality Able Spirituality Grows Natural Healing Behinds Vision Study Seeing Goodness Medicine Plant Fruit Seeds Traditional Hopefully Culmination Natural Healing

Author:Assata Shakur

“I think that one of the problems that exists in the United States and in many places in the world is that people don't believe that they can make a difference. So a lot of times we're defeated before we even start. We've become consumers of a world vision, of Kentucky Fried Chicken, of McDonalds.”

“We have to have a vision of the world we want to make in 100 years. And maybe when we have that vision, when we convince enough people that that is a realistic vision, and that the opposite vision is basically that if we don't do something in this 100 years, a hundred years from now this world is gonna be so destroyed, so raped and ravished that we won't HAVE much of a world to save.”

People Ifs World Want Years Enough Vision This World Hundred Opposites Destroyed Convince Realistic

Author:Assata Shakur

“I'm crafting a vision of my life that involves creativity. And Cuban society allows me to do this. I know it's harder in the U.S. where so many people are just grateful to have a job.”

People Knows Jobs Vision Creativity Harder Grateful Cuban

Author:Assata Shakur

“When you discover your gift and authority, that gift attracts people. When people come to you, they are not really coming to you for you but for the gift and the vision that you are serving the humanity of your generation with.”

People Humanity Vision Generations Authority Over You Serving

Author:Myles Munroe

“Without that thick skin and a clear vision of what it is you want to do, what it is you know you want to do, it can be really easy to get out here and get lost and swept away in whatever is going on. You really have to be steadfast in the mind for sure.”

Knows Want Mind Lost Easy Vision Clear Skins Thick Easy To Get Steadfast Swept Away Thick Skin Clear Vision

Author:Stephen Boss

“We have more brilliant fantasy novels than brilliant fantasy movies. Movies and TV are done by committee. But with a novel, it's really just one person running the show. That allows for a clarity and unity of vision that's pretty unique, artistically.”

Persons Done Shows Running Vision Fantasy Novel Tvs Unique Unity Brilliant Clarity Just One Committees Fantasy Novels

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“One needs to have some sense of purpose. Next, you need to have a vision that grows out of that purpose.”

Needs Purpose Next Grows Vision

Author:Jack Canfield

“Does anyone pray before they cut a tree? I haven't seen anyone do that yet in the timber industry. But my vision is that that day is coming. I have a vision of a world in which we relate to each other as souls - not as personalities - not as bodies and minds and capabilities to accomplish things in this domain of the five sense, but as immortal spirits learning together how to co-create this world.”

World Mind Doe Soul Body Together Spirit Vision Five Cutting Tree Havens This World Personality Industry Praying Accomplish Relate Immortal Capability Domain Mind And Body Timber

Author:Gary Zukav

“I cannot change you. I cannot change other people. So I have decided to put all of my energy where I have the most leverage , where I know I can make a difference. Instead of being upset that this world is not populated the way I want it to be populated, I have decided to become the citizen that I want the world to be populated with. That's how I create the vision.”

People Knows World Way Want I Can Energy Differences Vision This World Citizens Decided Upset Making A Difference

Author:Gary Zukav

“I like the iPhone, the iPad, all the various members of that family. But I like all the various technologies that are becoming available to make the world more accessible to people who are blind and with low vision.”

People World Vision Technology Becoming Members Lows Blind Various Available Iphone Ipads

Author:Stevie Wonder

“I started writing songs in high school and always wanted to have a band, and eventually my creative endeavors developed into Theocracy. So in some ways, you could say the vision has been there since I started writing songs.”

Way Writing Has Beens Wanted School Song Vision Creative Band High School Endeavor Writing Songs Theocracy

Author:Matt Smith

“In the light of consciousness all sorts of things happen and one need not give special importance to any. The sight of a flower is as marvelous as the vision of God. Let them be. Why remember them and then make memory into a problem? Be bland about them; do not divide them into high and low, inner and outer, lasting and transient. Go beyond, go back to the source, go to the self that is the same whatever happens.”

“O what their joy and their glory must be, Those endless sabbaths the blessed ones see! crowns for the valiant, for weary ones rest: God shall be all, and in all ever blest. Truly Jerusalem name we that shore, vision of peace that brings hope evermore; wish and fulfillment shall severed be ne'er, nor the thing prayed for come short of the prayer.”

Joy Names Wish Peace Prayer Vision Glory Blessed Endless Fulfillment Shore Crowns Weary Jerusalem Sabbath Valiant Evermore

Author:Peter Abelard

“God has given us only a limited sphere of action and a limited vision.”

God Action Given Vision Spheres

Book:The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation

Source: The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation

“God in his wisdom circumscribed man's vision, and rightly too, for otherwise man's conceit would know no bounds.”

Knows Men God Vision Bounds Conceit

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“If we had attained the full vision of Truth, we would no longer be seekers, but become one with God, for Truth is God.”

Ifs God Vision Truth Is Seekers

Book:Gandhi: Selected Writings

Source: Gandhi: Selected Writings

“When I first thought of being a writer I had visions of stacks of books in stores with my name on them, that sort of thing. But I never imagined this would be the reaction.”

Firsts Book Would Be Names Vision Stores Reactions

Author:Augusten Burroughs

“I am and will always be a HUGE Star Wars Geek and wanted to study film making. I really am not a fan of writing- I prefer storytelling and rather jump to storyboards to relay my vision then a lot of wordy words.”

Writing War Wanted Film Stars Vision Study Fans Huge Storytelling Geek Relays

Author:Holly Golightly

“When I work on a film, you know, I try to get or inhabit the body of the character -from the vision of the directors or how i think the character should be - so if it's a film like SPEED, you hit the gym, you get to do some, train with SWAT People, hehe, but in general, I'm really focused and dedicated, and then in regular life, I don't go to the gym as often.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Should Trying Character Body Film Vision Directors Train Focused Speed Gym Dedicated

Author:Keanu Reeves

“The inspiration really comes first from the character and the story. That vision of what the story is, and what the character is, the world that they inhabit and what the story wants to tell. That's really what inspires me.”

World Want Firsts Character Stories Inspiration Vision Inspire

Author:Keanu Reeves

“When I started using the extreme short depth of field and single point of focus, I was trying to replicate my changing eyesight. We have binocular vision; one eye perceives space from the other. I don't experience a scene visually at F32. It's more like F1.4.”

Trying Eye Space Vision Focus Fields Scene Photography Depth Extremes Perceive Replicate Eyesight Depth Of Field

Author:Keith Carter

“I think the equipment you use has a real, visible influence on the character of your photography. You're going to work differently, and make different kinds of pictures, if you have to set up a view camera on a tripod than if you're Lee Friedlander with handheld 35 mm rangefinder. But fundamentally, vision is not about which camera or how many megapixels you have, it's about what you find important. It's all about ideas.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Important Ideas Different Real Character Use Views Vision Influence Photography Cameras Visible Different Kinds Equipment Going To Work Tripods

Author:Keith Carter

“I've often been a little concerned by people who say they are color-blind, people who claim, in some ways, not to be aware of race, and I hope that those who will be looking for a vision of the future will be a little more honest, and say race actually does matter.”

People Way Littles Doe Matter Race Vision Honest Color Concerned Claims Blind Visions Of The Future Blind People

Author:Desmond Tutu

“All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”

Writing Firsts Time Vision Seeing First Time Crafts Awe

Book:Selected Letters, 1917-1961

Source: Selected Letters, 1917-1961

“I was an economist now turning into a human being - as if these are two different things. I don't know but I did that and then I had no vision.”

Ifs Knows Humans Two Different Human Beings Vision Different Things Economist Two Different Things

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“When you say vision you have a track that this is what I would like to say.”

Vision Track

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“Leaders encourage others to continue the quest and inspire others through courage and hope. Leaders give heart by visibly recognizing others' contributions to the common vision. With a thank you note, a smile, an award, and public praise, the leader lets others know how much they mean to the organization.”

Source: The leadership challenge: how to get extraordinary things done in organizations

“The connectedness of things is what the educator contemplates to the limit of his capacity. No human capacity is great enough to permit a vision of the world as simple, but if the educator does not aim at the vision no one else will, and the consequences are dire when no one does.”

Ifs World Humans Doe Enough Simple Vision Teaching Limits Consequence Capacity Aim Permit Contemplating Educator Connectedness Human Capacity

Author:Mark Van Doren

“The nature of spiritual awakening is frequently misunderstood. The adoption of spiritual beliefs, seeing visions of God or celestial beings, the ability to channel, to heal, to foretell the future, or other paranormal powers - all such phenomena are of value and are not to be dismissed, but none of them is in itself indicative of spiritual awakening in a person who experiences them.”

Persons Spiritual Values Belief Ability Vision Seeing Awakening Heal Paranormal Adoption Misunderstood Spiritual Awakening Celestial Spiritual Beliefs

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“I never thought of being a performer, never thought of being a singer, never thought of being a photographer. It's just the trajectory of my work. I go to the medium that serves the vision.”

Vision Photographer Singers Mediums Performers Trajectory

Author:Patti Smith

“My mother actually left American in 1929 to be part of an alternative community of bohemians around her then father-in-law who was a well-known Greek poet. This group of people were living in this semi-Luddite reality and weaving their own clothes - proto-hippies in a way- -but around an artistic vision.”

People Way Wells Reality Law Mother Father Left Community Known Vision Groups Poet Clothes Artistic Alternatives Greek Well Known Hippie In-laws Weaving Artistic Vision Father In Law

Author:Anne Waldman

“Just really be passionate and stick to your creative vision. Because it's competitive, and there are so many mind games and so many things that could get in the way. But success is the best revenge, so build yourself up rather than knock others down.”

Way Mind Games Vision Creative Sticks Passionate Revenge Best Revenge Mind Games Creative Vision Success Is The Best Revenge

Author:Tavi Gevinson

“I'm not someone who likes having a master plan for everything, but I do believe in a vision for your life.”

Believe Vision Plans Masters Likes

Author:Matthew Hussey

“Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.”

Company Vision Building Percent Strategy Visionaries Alignment

Author:James C. Collins

“Whatever you can think, you can create; just have a very clear vision... Once you have your snapshot, work on filling in the blanks to get to that place.”

Thinking Vision Clear Execution Filling Snapshots Clear Vision Filling In

Author:Sara Blakely

“You have to save the vision speeches for when the company is winning. When you're not winning, you just have to get momentum back.”

Winning Company Vision Speech Momentum

Author:Sam Altman

“Data only exists within the framework of a vision you're building to, a hypothesis of where you're moving to.”

Moving Vision Building Data Hypothesis Framework

Author:Reid Hoffman

“There's an ability to learn & adapt, an ability to constantly have a vision that's driving you, but to be taking input from all sources.”

Ability Vision Source Driving Input

Author:Reid Hoffman

“I invoke that sense of the particulars of that kind of literal travel and what that has meant historically in terms of diasporas, in terms of the migrations of immigrants coming to this [U.S.] country with a real vision of finding the promised land.”

Kind Real Country Term Vision Land Findings Immigrants Literal Migration Invoke Promised Land Diaspora

Author:Anne Waldman

“A lot of my life has involved with helping create cultures that have as their basis this vision of the sharing, the partaking of a certain ethos together.”

Helping Together Certain Culture Vision Involved Bases Ethos

Author:Anne Waldman

“The dichotomies, the brokenness of the culture around things like the Vietnam war, and then a lot of it has to do with war and where we put our energy and money and attention. And the military industrial complex, which dominates our whole economy. Even with the vision of democracy in other places we know the dark side.”

Knows War Whole Culture Energy Sides Dark Attention Vision Economy Democracy Military Complexes Vietnam Vietnam War Dark Side Brokenness Dichotomy Military Industrial Complex

Author:Anne Waldman

“Growing up in the fifties, having to wear a dog tag, having to take shelter in a bomb shelter. That turned me toward the road, I did not want to live in fear of that, I was gong to work somehow against what that vision was, and what that horror was. It was poetry, art, music.”

Want Art Vision Growing Up Growing Dog Horror Bombs Shelter Tag Art Music Gongs Bomb Shelters

Author:Anne Waldman

“I think Visions of Cody is the most radical book in terms of poetic stretch and the way Jack Kerouac is able to incorporate documentation and incorporate the live tape recording of Neal and so on.”

Thinking Way Book Able Term Vision Radical Poetic Tape Documentation

Author:Anne Waldman

“Once I have a vision of something I want to accomplish, I tend to slog doggedly toward my goal until I achieve it; this is a skill from my youth.”

Want Goal Vision Achieve Youth Skills Accomplish

Author:Arlene Blum

“Before you can create a strategy, you need a vision of the company. Before you set that vision for the future, you have to understand your current position in the market as well as your limitations.”

Needs Wells Company Vision Position Strategy Currents Limitation

Author:Stan Shih

“No one begs you to be a poet or write a 1000-page poem. You have to be fueled by a drive, a conviction - a need, a necessity, a vision that is so pressing that it has no other outlet but through you. That doesn't mean that you are unconscious or in trance, but there can be moments like that.”

Needs Writing Mean Moments Vision Poet Pages Conviction Unconscious Outlets Trance

Author:Anne Waldman

“Being an effective leader is enormously complex. It requires vision to see a future, dedication to make things happen, sensitivity to people who are quirky at times, and personal confidence without arrogance.”

People Happens Leader Vision Complexes Things Happen Arrogance Dedication Sensitivity Quirky Make Things Happen

Author:Dave Ulrich

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