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“The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.”

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Author:Voltaire

“Sometimes I want to have a mental book burning that would scour my mind clean of all the filthy visions literature has conjured there. But how to do without 'The Illiad?' How to do without 'Macbeth?”

Want Mind Book Sometimes Literature Vision Clean Burning Filthy Book Burning

Author:Geraldine Brooks

“Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding through pleasure.”

Mind Philosophy Body Understanding Pleasure Vision Psychology Medicine Senses Limitation Borders Empowering Soma

Author:Dejan Stojanovic

“Define the limits of your vision: Having this, you will not be poorer Than a man who rules a dukedom.”

Men Success Vision Limits

Author:Su Shi

“Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!”

Men Made Moments Dream Vision Shadow Shade

Book:Night Thoughts ... With notes ... by the Rev. C. E. de Coetlogon ... To which are added the author's poem on the Last Day, the paraphrase on part of the Book of Job [with other poems], and his life

Source: Night Thoughts ... With notes ... by the Rev. C. E. de Coetlogon ... To which are added the author's poem on the Last Day, the paraphrase on part of the Book of Job [with other poems], and his life

“Sorrow preys upon Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it From its sad visions of the other world Than calling it at moments back to this. The busy have no time for tears.”

World Moments Vision Tears Sorrow Calling Solitude Busy Prey Other Worlds

Author:Lord Byron

“The visionary disciplines himself to see the world always as if he had only just seen it for the first time.”

Ifs World Firsts Vision Discipline First Time Visionaries

Book:The essential Colin Wilson

Source: The essential Colin Wilson

“I entreat fresh visions from the painters. Be lavish with your vermilion to portray the mountains in the spring.”

Vision Mountain Spring Painter

Author:Lu Xun

“Great people have a vision of their lives that they practice emulating each and every day. They go to work on their lives, not just in their lives.”

People Vision Practice Great People

Author:Michael Gerber

“Through photography, both artist and scientist can find a common denominator in their search for the synthesis of modern vision in time, space and structure.”

Artist Space Common Vision Modern Photography Scientist Structure Synthesis Common Denominator

Author:Ernst Haas

“Only a vision - that is what one must have.”

Vision Photographer

Author:Ernst Haas

“That everyone won't see it, that everyone won't join you, that everyone won't have the vision... it's necessary to know that... See I wanted everyone to like me, I wanted to be perfect the first time around. IT'S NOT GONNA HAPPEN. You're gonna make some mistakes, you are gonna create some enemies whenever you decide to take on the world and go after you passion.”

Knows World Firsts Happens Wanted Passion Perfect Mistake Vision Enemy First Time Like Me

Author:Les Brown

“There are, broadly speaking, two types of drinkers. There is the man whom we all know, stupid, unimaginative, whose brain is bitten numbly by numb maggots; who walks generously with wide-spread, tentative legs, falls frequently in the gutter, and who sees, in the extremity of his ecstasy, blue mice and pink elephants.... The other type of drinker has imagination, vision. Even when most pleasantly jingled he walks straight and naturally, never staggers nor falls, and knows just where he is and what he is doing. It is not his body but his brain that is drunken.”

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Author:Jack London

“Whatever its future success as a historical movement, anarchism will remain a fundamental part of human experience, for the drive for freedom is one of our deepest needs and the vision of a free society is one of our oldest dreams. Neither can ever be fully repressed; both will outlive all rulers and their States.”

Needs Humans States Dream Vision Movement Fundamentals Historical Anarchy Rulers Human Experience Anarchism Free Society Repressed Future Success

Book:Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism

Source: Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism

“The basic paradox about sex is that it always seems to be offering more than it can deliver. A glimpse of a girl undressing through a lighted bedroom window induces a vision of ecstatic delight, but in the actual process of persuading the girl into bed, the vision somehow evaporates.”

Seems Girl Sex Process Vision Bed Window Delight Paradox Offering Bedroom Glimpse Ecstatic Persuading Undressing

Book:The Misfits: A Study of Sexual Outsiders

Source: The Misfits: A Study of Sexual Outsiders

“Perhaps the rhinos and she-crocodiles whose gyrations between Mortimer's and East Hampton gives us our vision of social eminence today are content to entrust their faces to Andy Warhol's mingily cosmetic Polaroidising, but one would bet they would rather go to Sargent.”

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Author:Robert Hughes

“Politics was not just about winning the election, it was about winning decisively--having the momentum to carry out one's vision. Historically, any president who squeaked into office on a narrow margin accomplished much less; he was weakened right out of the gate, and Congress never seemed to let him forget it.”

Winning President Forget Vision Office Election Congress Accomplished Gates Forget It Momentum Margins

Book:Deception Point

Source: Deception Point

“Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.”

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Book:Napoleon Hill's Keys to Personal Achievement: An Official Publication of The Napoleon Hill Foundation

Source: Napoleon Hill's Keys to Personal Achievement: An Official Publication of The Napoleon Hill Foundation

“But you have to have a vision of what kind of military you are trying to build in order to get the [budget] cuts to make sense.”

Trying Kind Order Vision Cutting Military Make Sense Budgets Budget Cuts

Author:Jessica Mathews

“First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.”

Source: Become Your Best

“It is important to us to understand and discuss a "vision" with both leagues and then sponsor the league that best matches our views and direction on growing the sport. To do that, there must be a tie back to our grass roots efforts. In short, our marketing plan for new players has to ultimately point to a league and its players.”

Important Sports Views Effort Vision Growing Player Plans Roots Marketing Grass League Ties Sponsors Marketing Plans

Author:John Robinson

“Sometimes artists are control freaks and it's certainly important to have a vision, but within that vision you need to allow freedom and personality- or you light as well hire robots.”

Needs Wells Important Sometimes Light Artist Vision Personality Freak Robots Control Freak

Author:Oh Land

“I like working with directors much, because I want to be able to give myself completely to their vision. Otherwise I would only do what I could do, again and again. I want to be taken by someone in a different direction.”

Want Giving Different Able Vision Taken Directors Again And Again Different Directions

Author:Catherine Deneuve

“I'm not a fan of 3D. But I am a huge fan of digital imagery. Because it allows a filmmaker much more latitude to appreciate their own visions and dreams.”

Dream Vision Fans Huge Appreciate Filmmaker Digital Imagery Latitude Visions And Dreams

Author:William Friedkin

“The bike has very few controls. It's very simple to operate and understand and your field of vision is certainly greatly expanded as opposed to being in a car.”

Simple Vision Car Fields Bike

Author:Paul F. Tompkins

“It's whether they have a vision and whether they're able to communicate it. The best director is just someone who gets over-excited about doing it - they don't even have to know much about camera or acting.”

Knows Able Acting Vision Directors Cameras Communicate Excited Get Over

Author:Colin Firth

“Vertigo is probably my favourite Hitchcock film and probably one of my favourite films of all time. It's a film that I'm obsessed with. I saw it on its first release in vista vision, projected in vista-vision, at the Capitol Theatre in New York. That moment when the nun comes up in the end... it's just an extraordinary shot.”

Firsts Ends Moments Film Vision Saws New York Shots Extraordinary Come Up Theatre All Time Release Obsessed That Moment Favourite Nun Capitol Hitchcock Vistas Vertigo

Author:Martin Scorsese

“I'll always rather be in a ship that's got a captain that has some vision.”

Vision Ships Captains

Author:Susan Sarandon

“I don't want to know what they think of me - there's always going to be someone who won't like it and that'll just upset me. So, if I'm happy with it, it just matters if I've done my little vision.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Littles Matter Done Vision Upset Think Of Me

Author:Evanna Lynch

“Even if I loved the script, the director has to be right because it's all about the filmmaker. It's their vision. They're the ones that go back into the editing room and reassemble the film.”

Ifs Film Rooms Vision Directors Scripts Filmmaker Editing

Author:Cameron Diaz

“I like the powerful story, the excellent performances the beautiful cinematography and the vision of the "The Piano".”

Stories Beautiful Powerful Vision Performances Excellent Piano Cinematography Excellent Performance

Author:Mabel Cheung

“When you start something creative for the first time, you are completely free, no real influences other than your own vision.”

Firsts Real Vision Creative Influence First Time

Author:Matthew Williamson

“Hermès and my own brand share the same philosophy, the same vision of women, but the two aren't identical.”

Two Philosophy My Own Vision Share Brands Identical

Author:Christophe Lemaitre

“What's important for me is to find the right kind of girls who express a vision of a woman. We like girls who look smart and intelligent with natural beauty - a certain quality of skin and hair. And she doesn't look exactly like a model.”

Looks Kind Important Certain Girl Natural Quality Vision Hair Models Smart Skins Intelligent What's Important Kind Of Girl

Author:Christophe Lemaitre

“I want collaboration, but if they don't have a plan or their vision isn't clear, it's nerve-wracking. So, someone that's very sure of the vision is what you want, most of all.”

Ifs Want Vision Clear Plans What You Want Nerves Collaboration

Author:Naomi Watts

“We all have to announce our full solidarity with the struggle of those seeking freedom and justice in Syria, and translate this sympathy into a clear political vision that supports a peaceful transition to a democratic system of rule that reflects the demands of the Syrian people for freedom.”

People Political Justice Vision Support Struggle Clear Demand Democratic Seeking Peaceful Transition Sympathy Translate Syria Solidarity

Author:Mohammed Morsi

“When it comes to acting, it's about creating a character and bringing forth a director's vision. It's a weird feeling, because with acting, it's just not about me. I love being in that position, because with the music, it's always about me.”

Character Feelings Love Is Acting Vision Position Directors Creating Weird Feeling

Author:Lenny Kravitz

“On the downside, to paraphrase Thom Yorke talking about the music business, we're still having to deal with the stench of the last fart of the dying corpse of this regressive vision that America is a white, middle-aged, male, conservative country.”

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Author:Edward Norton

“I want to be able to do what I want to do. A lot of times, the major labels, they can't see the vision, they can only see the dollar signs. So, it doesn't really work out like that.”

Want Able Vision Majors Dollars Work Out Labels

Author:Danny Brown

“I am fairly optimistic about the disillusionment that produces homogeneity in general. The films that succeed in [theaters] are fairly homogeneous in terms of narrative and vision of the world.”

World Film Term Vision Produce Succeed Theater Optimistic Narrative Disillusionment Homogeneous Homogeneity

Author:Lucrecia Martel

“As a director, you can transform your vision more with the music.”

Vision Directors

Author:Fatih Ak?n

“Filmmaking is, a sort of uncontrolled process. I think it's very important to be open to the unexpected and at the same time, of course, maintain your vision, be open to the all the things you didn't think of yourself that can make the film better.”

Thinking Important Film Courses Process Vision Unexpected Filmmaking Think Of You

Author:Dagur Kari

“I think I'm very good at adjusting to anything and to any situation, and if you are good at being in the moment and adjusting, you can actually have a clear vision of what to do with things or how to do things.”

Ifs Thinking Moments Situation Vision Clear Very Good Adjusting Clear Vision

Author:Salma Hayek

“Original visions are often wrong. Companies have to morph as they learn what customers don't want.”

Want Company Vision Originals Customers

Author:Guy Kawasaki

“I personally feel very strongly that what it will take is not more disasters, it's that what it will take is a vision of the future that is better than our present.”

Feels Vision Disaster Very Strong Visions Of The Future

Author:Avi Lewis

“When I'm in the studio, I write the music, I play the different instruments, I produce it, I arrange it, and it's a self-indulgent exercise. It's the way I make my music. And when I'm acting, I get to leave myself behind, which is a relief. I get to collaborate with a director; I respect the director's medium and all the actors and actresses. So at the end of the day, it's about a character and it's about a director's vision. It's a really good balance for being so intense and alone in my personal process of making music.”

“Apollo wasn't just about sending people into space. It transformed so much of our economy. From our education system to so many of the things we use today, it was a vision that led to the total transformation of the planet.”

People Use Today Space Vision Economy Planets Transformation Transformed Apollo Education System

Author:Kesha Rogers

“I think what gets you through a small writing project, is just one burst of inspiration. A book, especially a longer book, it's a different kind of force that pushes you through it. It's a vision of the whole thing.”

Thinking Writing Kind Book Different Whole Inspiration Force Vision Projects Just One Different Kinds

Author:Alan Lightman

“I learned in architecture that you have to have a real plan. You have to have a client, they have to have distribution, start-up money, and have a vision of where it's going to go. All this has to be settled before you start, or else your work is just a story.”

Real Stories Vision Plans Architecture Clients Distribution

Author:Michael Graves

“I got a phone call from George Miller [the director] asking me to play this role. We sat down and he showed me on his computer a documentary-type montage sequence of real penguins swimming, in an Esther Williams synchronized sort of way, and doing things I have never seen them do. Then he explained his vision of the film, asked me to read the script and to voice the character. I was cast a little bit later, and he let me do the singing as well!”