“After my election there was talk of a postracial America. And such a vision, however well intended, was never realistic.” WellsAmericaVisionElectionRealistic Author:Barack Obama
“The development and deployment of drones and Cruise missiles involves the continuing development of the vision machine. Research on Cruise missiles is intrinsically linked to the development of vision machines. The aim, of course, is not only to give vision to a machine but, as in the case of the Cruise missiles that were aimed at Leningrad and Moscow, also to enable a machine to deploy radar readings and pre-programmed maps as it follows its course towards its target.” GivingCoursesReadingVisionCasesDevelopmentResearchMachinesAimMapsTargetContinuingLinkedMissilesCruiseRadarDronesMoscowDeploymentLeningrad Author:Paul Virilio
“The research on vision machines was mainly conducted at the Stanford Research Institute in the US. So, we can say that the events that took place in the Kosovo War were a total confirmation of the thesis of The Vision Machine.” WarVisionEventsResearchMachinesInstituteConfirmationThesisStanfordKosovo Author:Paul Virilio
“There's a real careful line you have to walk there because your first job [therapist] is to create safety for the client to feel safe enough to turn their vision in towards themselves and their experience in the moment and to reveal things that usually carry a lot of shame or that kind of stuff around.” FeelsFirstsKindRealEnoughMomentsJobsTurnsStuffLinesWalksVisionSafeShameSafetyCarefulClientsTherapists Author:Kelly Carlin-McCall
“Be yourself. Hillary Clinton, you have a great vision for our country. You know the policy, you have good judgment that springs from that. You're a strategic thinker, and you have a connection with the American people that springs from a lifetime of service and leadership to them, to America's working families. So, just go talk about that. Forget the script, forget everything else. Just be Hillary Clinton. Be yourself.” PeopleKnowsCountryAmericaForgetVisionPolicyJudgmentSpringConnectionsLifetimeClintonScriptsOur CountryBeing YourselfThinkerStrategicGood JudgmentForget EverythingGreat Vision Author:Nancy Pelosi
“I think a primary always makes the other candidate a better candidate because you're battle-tested and you have to think in ways that other people are thinking in addition to your own vision, how to incorporate some fresher, newer thinking into all of that.” PeopleThinkingWayVisionBattlePrimariesCandidatesTested Author:Nancy Pelosi
“I think that one of the visions that is closest to reality is the cardboard city in the subway station in Tokyo, which is based very closely on a series of documentary photographs of people living like that and of the contents of the boxes. Those are quite haunting because Tokyo homeless people reiterate the whole nature of living in Tokyo in these cardboard boxes, they're only slightly smaller than Tokyo apartments, and they have almost as many consumer goods. It's a nightmare of boxes within boxes.” PeopleThinkingWholeRealityCitiesVisionSeriesPhotographBoxesConsumersNightmareGoodsStationsClosestApartmentHomelessDocumentariesHauntingSubwayTokyoHomeless PeopleCardboard Boxes Author:William Gibson
“I realize that I've had a very idyllic vision of what spirituality looks like. Honestly, most of Western culture has an idyllic and simplified idea of what enlightenment entails.” LooksIdeasCultureSpiritualityRealizingVisionEnlightenmentWesternHonestlyWestern CultureIdyllic Author:Alexander Weinstein
“I don't like a bipolar or a unipolar world. I like a multipolar world but on many occasions people have been surprised that South Africa has not seemed, internationally as well as internally, to take a decision that affirms the true values of your Constitution and the vision of those who were there at the beginning - Madiba himself and others.” PeopleWorldWellsHas BeensValuesDecisionVisionConstitutionSouthOccasionsSouth AfricaBipolarTrue ValueMadiba Author:Mary Robinson
“I believe that every photographer, every artist, should choose materials and equipment based on their own vision. I don't believe that non-digital is necessarily better than digital, or the reverse for that matter. They are just different, and it is my preference and choice to remain with the traditional silver process, at least for the time being.” ShouldBelieveDifferentMatterArtistChoicesI BelieveProcessVisionMaterialsDon't BelievePhotographerTraditionalDigitalSilverReverseEquipmentPreference Author:Michael Kenna
“One advances by standing on the shoulders of giants, but the ultimate goal is to find one's own vision.” GoalVisionStandingUltimateShouldersGiantsUltimate Goal Author:Michael Kenna
“My advice to any budding artist is never to be satisfied with imitating others. This is but a means to an end. A serious artist will work with intensity to discover themselves, their own personal vision. I believe this is a fundamental aspect of the creative path.” BelieveMeanEndsArtistI BelieveVisionCreativePathAdviceSeriousAspectFundamentalsSatisfiedIntensityImitatingMeans To An EndPersonal VisionImitating Others Author:Michael Kenna
“Deeply versed in history, [John Adams] said over and over that America had no special providence, no special role in history, that Americans were no different from other peoples, that the United States was just as susceptible to viciousness and corruption as any other nation. In this regard, at least, Jefferson's vision has clearly won the day.” SaidDifferentStatesAmericaNationsUnitedVisionRolesUnited StatesSpecialRegardCorruptionProvidenceSusceptible Author:Gordon S. Wood
“In America, we have to really be working on two fronts right now. Immediately, we have to be rising in resistance and protecting our Muslim brothers and sisters [and] every marginalized person under threat and siege. At the same time, we have to be planning and envisioning where we're going. How we build moments and movements, how we come up with the vision we want of a progressive left - that's what comes in after.” WantPersonsTwoMomentsAmericaLeftVisionFrontsMovementBrotherRight NowThreatCome UpPlanningResistanceRisingProgressiveBrothers And SistersMarginalizedSiegeEnvisioning Author:Eve Ensler
“I'm a big believer of having a vision board, so I have a vision board, and that's motivating because it shows me all the things I have accomplished and all the things I still want to accomplish.” WantStillsShowsBigsVisionAccomplishBelieverBoardsAccomplishedShow MeVision Board Author:Lilly Singh
“I'm a man that has a vision as to how this world can be, and I've gathered myself through all the ordeals that I had to make me a well-rounded person and still fight for justice.” MenWorldWellsPersonsStillsFightingJusticeVisionThis WorldOrdealsWell Rounded Author:John Carlos
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” InspirationalLeadershipLeaderVisionLearningPoliticianEducationalPresidentialLeadership DevelopmentIndispensableGreat LeaderInsperationalLeadership TrainingPolitical LeadersWorld LeaderBusiness LeadershipTrue LeaderLive And LearnBeing A LeaderInspiring LeaderEffective LeadershipGreat LeadershipLeadership By Famous LeadersBest LeaderLeadership And ManagementGreat TeamTrue LeadershipLife LearningMotivational LeadershipLeadership SkillsDefinition Of LeadershipGood LeadershipLeadership By Great LeadersGreatest LeadershipFuture LeadersYou Live And You LearnOutstanding LeadershipPowerful LeadersTop ManagementTraining And EducationOutstanding LeadersLeadership TeamworkMilitary LeadershipPolitical LeadershipVisionary LeadersTeam LeadershipLearning Something NewStrategic LeadershipLeadership In EducationVisionary LeadershipTeachabilityParticipative LeadershipHumility LeadershipTeam LeaderBecoming A LeaderHumility And LeadershipLeadership And ServiceGreatness And LeadershipEducational LeadersLeadership StyleOpinion Leaders Author:John F. Kennedy
“If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.” IfsArtArtistCultureVisionCreativeSocietyArt IsRootsUmpiresOther CulturesArt And CultureSociety And CultureArt Expression Author:John F. Kennedy
“By college, I had a really grand, preposterous vision of myself as becoming a writer, but I don't think I had the discipline or the patience - or the ability or the humility. It took 20 years to acquire those things.” ThinkingYearsAbilityVisionHumilityCollegeBecomingDisciplineAcquire Author:Nguyen Viet Thang
“After all, I want to make sure I stick with his original vision. So far, [Steven King] comments have always been the same - run with it!” WantRunningVisionKingsOriginalsSticksComment Author:Robin Furth
“The best advice bro: is think big, as big as you can possibly think, and shoot for that. The bigger you aim for, the bigger you're going to be. Set the standards for yourself as high as you possibly can and also surround yourself with people who have the same visions you have.” PeopleThinkingBigsVisionAdviceStandardsBiggerAimSurroundSurround YourselfThink BigBest AdviceBrosSurround Yourself With People Author:Gabriel Iglesias
“An oral society develops both sides of your brain, and the utilization of your brain is more complete than in a linear education module. The written word limits your brain capability by immediately focusing on one area. You don't have any peripheral vision. It immediately divorces you from the environment.” SidesBrainVisionEnvironmentWrittenLimitsAreasDivorceCapabilityBoth SidesLinearWritten WordUtilizationPeripheral Vision Author:Russell Means
“People who have stuck to their vision and mission no matter what. They inspire me. The people who wake up to non-glamorous lives to continue pushing to do what God has called them to do.” PeopleMatterVisionInspireWake UpNo Matter WhatMissionsStuckPushingGlamorousGlamorous Life Author:LeCrae
“Gibson ES 125 was a real instrument, this was in 1956. I started learning; I had a vision of a sound.” RealSoundVisionInstruments Author:Steve Young
“[Donald Trump] is in the process of building up an organization. And well, we'll have to see how that works. And it'll be a test, I think, for him and the people that he's designated to be able to execute on his vision.” PeopleThinkingWellsAbleProcessVisionBuildingTrumpTestsOrganizationBuilding Up Author:Barack Obama
“After seeing what I have seen on my journey, my advice to upcoming musicians would have to be... always have your vision in sight. Do music the way you envisioned yourself doing music no matter what it cost.” WayMatterVisionSeeingJourneyAdviceCostMusicianSightNo Matter WhatMy Journey Author:Chronixx
“The interesting thing about this is I don't know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about. I'm sensing something and I'm going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted - Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.” KnowsWayPlayArtistInterestingVisionPaintingGreat ArtInteresting ThingsGreat ArtistSensingSalome Author:Al Pacino
“[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.” WorldVisionAudiencePresentation Author:Al Pacino
“There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?” WayLifeInspirationalLooksDreamMotivationalAsksChangeVisionImpossibleEncouragementYour DreamsWhy NotGraduationChase Your DreamsHopes And DreamsI Had A DreamDreams And RealityJust A DreamDreams You HaveDream WorldBroken DreamsLife DreamVisions And DreamsInspirational DreamLife Is A DreamChasing DreamsLife And DreamsDreaming And DoingDreaming About YouImagination RealityDream Chasing Author:Robert Kennedy
“Man can become purified, and with divine vision he can see God. You get pure by chanting, then you see Him.” MenVisionDivinePureChanting Author:George Harrison
“I wasn't part of John Kennedy's vision of the world, or Lyndon Johnson's. I thought of them as anti-Communist imperial monsters.” WorldVisionMonstersCommunistJohnsonJohn KennedyAnti Communist Author:Bill Ayers
“All that means to me is that people who have a vision of a better world have a responsibility to open their eyes, to pay attention, to act on what the moment demands, and to be humble about that action.” PeopleWorldMeanMomentsEyeActionPayAttentionResponsibilityVisionDemandHumblePay AttentionBe Humble Author:Bill Ayers
“Certainly we're always rooting for our particular contingent moment to be a great one. Pain-free. But the more expansive vision has to include the idea that, even for us, sometimes our particular contingent moment is going to be horrific.” IdeasSometimesMomentsPainVisionParticularGreat OnesHorrific Author:George Saunders
“Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.” LifeEyeLife IsStarsVisionBeat GenerationBeatnikWinking Book:Selected letters, 1940-1956 Source: Selected letters, 1940-1956
“We should not rule out the possibility that Trump's diplomacy could deescalate Middle East strife and international tensions, give the US a lower global profile and enable a more balanced world order to emerge, doing most of its damage here at home, through moves to implement his vision of nativist nationalism.” WorldGivingShouldHomeMovingOrderVisionMiddlePossibilityTrumpInternationalEastDamageTensionNationalismMiddle EastBalancedStrifeDiplomacyProfileWorld Order Author:Richard A. Falk
“Neil Gorsuch represents the type of judge that has the vision of Donald Trump and it fulfills the promise that he made to all of you and to all Americans across the country.” MadeCountryVisionJudgingTypeTrumpPromise Author:Reince Priebus
“A third or more of the brain is devoted to visual processing, not true of any other sense. We have color vision and it is truly binocular. This sophistication is not true of other senses, such as smell, where many genes are actually mutated and no longer work.” BrainVisionColorThirdsSmellSensesVisualsGenesDevotedProcessingSophistication Author:John Medina
“A lot of people believe you only need a vision. This is simply not correct. You need brilliant execution every day. It's about attention to all the details of go to market.” PeopleNeedsBelieveAttentionVisionDetailsBrilliantExecution Author:Michael J. Silverstein
“I have this vision that I'm really watching each one of my daughters start to become women, and mothers. And this is what's gonna save our planet.” MotherVisionPlanetsDaughterMy DaughterOur PlanetSave Our Planet Author:Giancarlo Esposito
“Vision without execution is like a plane without wings, or Dumbo without ears, it just won't fly.” VisionEarsWingsPlanesExecutionDumbo Author:Bill Capodagli
“Our proposal had more than just money. We would increase their staff and keep their headquarters, their brand and their management in place. We made them a comprehensive offer they couldn't refuse. Shareholders simply receive cash, but with the staff and management, we had to show that we could share the same vision. Employees would probably resent us if money were all [we offered].” IfsMadeShowsVisionShareOffersIncreaseManagementRefuseBrandsEmployeeCashStaffProposalComprehensiveResentShareholdersHeadquarters Author:Masayoshi Son
“I'm happy that I get to work with people that I enjoy being around. It's really cool when people understand and want to help your vision and are like rooting for you. I just, I love them a lot.” PeopleWantHelpingEnjoyVisionReally Cool Author:Melanie Martinez
“One way to get very humble is to dedicate the work you're going to do to your community. And by community I mean that community you have a special vision for, that only you see, that no one else in a room sees. That special community in pain, that through a pain you've suffered, you're able to have that vision, that super-ray vision.” WayMeanAblePainCommunityRoomsVisionSpecialHumbleOne WayRays Author:Sandra Cisneros
“Lincoln has accepted America as a biracial society. He's talking about giving at least some black men the right to vote. In the Emancipation Proclamation he advises some blacks to labor faithfully for reasonable wages, here in the United States. He doesn't say anything about them leaving the country. He puts black men in the army. That is a whole different vision than simply saying "let's have them go out of the country." I think what's interesting is the change in Lincoln's view, but one must realize that he did adhere to this idea of colonization for many years.” ThinkingMenGivingYearsIdeasDifferentCountryStatesWholeAmericaBlackRealizingInterestingUnitedViewsTalkingVisionUnited StatesLaborVoteArmyLeavingAcceptedReasonableSay AnythingWagesAdviseEmancipationRight To VoteBiracialColonizationProclamationEmancipation ProclamationLeaving The Country Author:Eric Foner
“Let's create a World's Fair that captures everybody's visions of tomorrow together and let's celebrate that vision. Let's have articles on it with illustrators imagining how we'd be living differently.” WorldTogetherVisionTomorrowFairsCelebrateCaptureArticlesIllustrators Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Karzai is Afghanistan's first democratically elected president. He brought the international community into partnership on an unprecedented level, and he championed a new constitution that is liberal, democratic and still very Afghan. All of that does reflect a vision. But he's presided over a country that is still in conflict, and he hasn't taken some of the difficult decisions his own government wanted him to take. On corruption, he hasn't been as decisive as he should've been. There are legitimate questions about him.” ShouldFirstsDoeStillsCountryGovernmentWantedDifficultPresidentCommunityDecisionLevelsVisionTakenConflictConstitutionDemocraticInternationalCorruptionAfghanistanPartnershipUnprecedentedInternational CommunityAfghanDifficult Decisions Author:Chris Alexander
“Direction is a thousand choices, a thousand decisions a day. And having a vision of what you want, and then knowing what you want frame-by-frame, second-by-second... if you don't have it laid out in the design and in the way the actor performs it, it's not going to happen.” IfsWayWantHappensChoicesActorsDecisionVisionKnowingDesignThousandWhat You WantKnowing What You Want Author:Sean Stone
“When you meet a director who wants to remake a movie, you have to ask, does he or she have an interesting vision and idea, something that intrigues you - is there a reason why we should do this?” WantShouldDoeIdeasReasonAsksInterestingVisionDirectorsReason WhyIntrigueRemakes Author:Alexander Skarsgard
“I've learned that if I only put my mind to one thing that I can get tunnel vision. Then I may not be as open to other opportunities because I'm so focused on one thing. I think what's worked better for me personally is I have three goals every day: be nice, work hard and make friends. Those are my daily goals, and I feel like those are the things that create opportunity and creating connections that will then lead to other things that I may not have planned for otherwise.” IfsThinkingFeelsMindMayI CanHardThreeOpportunityGoalVisionNiceOne ThingHard WorkCreatingConnectionsFocusedI've LearnedBeing NiceTunnelsI May Not BeTunnel VisionNice Work Author:Gigi Hadid
“People who want a different Pakistan have to find a way to go back into their own past and revive the vision of their founders, that was clearly a tolerant and diverse one, so that they can distinguish it from the one that has been imposed upon it. If they can do that, they can take back this city and their country.” PeopleIfsWayWantHas BeensDifferentCountryPastCan DoCitiesVisionDiverseFoundersPakistanRevive Author:Steve Inskeep