“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.” StillsTurnsNationsProcessVisionPlansSpeechPracticalsVotersConvincingCredible Author:Ron Fournier
“You need to know what makes artists tick. Having been through the process myself as a musician, since I was an early teen, gave me an advantage - understanding them from their point of view, because it's about them, it's not about you - it's their vision and what they're capable of achieving, and you're the conduit.” KnowsNeedsArtistProcessUnderstandingViewsVisionAchieveMusicianCapableAdvantagePoint Of ViewTick Author:Tommy Mottola
“The more I drive myself into the depth of my inside, the more things come up to my vision, visibly or invisibly... I even do not know if I am seeing them with my eye or with my mind. I just need to copy them on my canvases. But this mental process is always overwhelming. I often have hard time to deal with my emotion on this state. You could call this depression on surface? But actually, so many 're-birth' and 'reform' are going on on my thoughts, inspiration, philosophy...etc in the underwater. I believe this struggle make my art real. My art always comes from my emotion.” IfsKnowsNeedsMindBelieveArtRealHardStatesPhilosophyInspirationEyeI BelieveProcessDealsEmotionVisionStruggleSeeingBirthDepthCome UpSurfaceReformHard TimesEtcCopiesOverwhelmingMy ThoughtsUnderwater Author:Hiroko Sakai
“Justice is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake the character of men as you cannot fake the character of nature, that you must judge all men as conscientiously as you judge inanimate objects, with the same respect for truth, with the same incorruptible vision, by as pure and as rational a process of identification-that every man must be judged for what he is and treated accordingly.” MenCharacterFactsProcessJusticeVisionObjectsJudgingPureEvery ManTreatedRationalRecognitionFakeJudgedIdentificationInanimate ObjectsCharacter Of A Man Author:John Galt
“My vision is to not only define food and cooking as an art, but to go back to the roots of cooking and showcase the process through a more simplistic, ethereal approach as an expression of life and living.” ArtProcessVisionExpressionApproachLife And LivingRootsCookingEtherealShowcase Author:Lorena Garcia
“I believed that by a process of what I can only describe as inward dilation of the eyes I could increase my actual vision.” I CanEyeProcessVisionIncreaseInward Author:Paul Nash
“We are confident that the normalization of Armenia-Turkey relations can become the greatest input of the recent decades in achieving peace and stability in the South Caucasus. With this vision, we have agreed to move forward without any preconditions, not making our relations contingent upon Turkey's recognition of the Armenian Genocide. However, if, as many suspect, it is proven that Turkey's goal is to protract, rather than to normalize relations, we will have to discontinue the process.” IfsMovingProcessGoalVisionAchieveRelationSouthDecadesMoving ForwardRecognitionSuspectsStabilityGenocideProvenTurkeysInputAchieving PeaceArmeniansArmeniaArmenian GenocideCaucasus Author:Serzh Sargsyan
“the overwhelming majority of people who are engaged in the processes of thought and expression are Democrats because the essence of thought is exploration and diversity and change. It's impossible to have vision in art or government without risk, or the boldness and courage which produce risk. And this - in spite of what they call modern Republicanism - is the antithesis of true Republican thinking.” PeopleThinkingArtGovernmentPoliticalProcessPartyVisionImpossibleRiskModernProduceExpressionRepublicanDiversityEssenceMajorityDemocratEngagedSpiteExplorationOverwhelmingPolitical PartiesBoldnessAntithesisRepublicanismBoldness And Courage Author:Marya Mannes
“It takes courage to get clear about what your vision of the work is and to be persistent about it and pursue it, whatever you're saying. I'm still in a long learning process.” LongStillsProcessVisionClearPursuePersistentLearning Process Author:Joan Larkin
“You know, you have to start with hope...you don't get anywhere in this country without hope. So it's a necessity. What Barack says is that people have to understand hope isn't just blind optimism. It isn't passive. It isn't just sitting there waiting for things to get better. Hope is the vision that you have to have. It's the inspiration that moves people into action...There are more people engaged in this political process in this year than we've seen in my lifetime. And it is all because of hope because people believe in the possibility of something unseen.” PeopleKnowsYearsBelieveCountryInspirationActionMovingPoliticalWaitingProcessVisionPossibilitySittingOptimismBlindLifetimeBarackGet BetterEngagedPassiveUnseenWithout HopeBlind Optimism Author:Michelle Obama
“David Fincher is probably the best comprehensive director in terms of being a manger of a process that must drive forward. He has such confident command of cinema language and visual language and script and performance. He knows more about f-stops than any cameraman, he knows more about lighting than any gaffer, he is a wonderful writer, and he can give you a good line reading. Under pressure, he is the kind of guy who you will just dive in with and trust and follow because his vision is so intense.” KnowsGivingKindGuyReadingLanguageProcessTermLinesVisionWonderfulDirectorsPerformancesPressureScriptsIntenseCommandCinemaVisualsComprehensiveLightingUnder PressureCameraman Author:Edward Norton
“What I've learned from different designers is that it's key to be true to who you are and your vision. That's always been my line of thinking. Working through the whole design process, I don't want to create something I wouldn't be proud to wear.” ThinkingWantDifferentWholeProcessLinesVisionDesignKeysProudWho You AreBeing TrueDesignerI've LearnedBe ProudDesign ProcessBe True To Who You Are Author:Kellan Lutz
“Thinking is seeing.... Every human science is based on deduction, which is a slow process of seeing by which we work up from the effect to the cause; or, in a wider sense, all poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.” ThinkingHumansArtScienceCausesProcessVisionSeeingEffectsThoughtfulWorks Of ArtDeductions Book:Louis Lambert Source: Louis Lambert
“At last a vision has been vouchsafed to us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good.... With this vision we approach new affairs. Our duty is to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to correct the evil without impairing the good, to purify and humanize every process of our common life, without weakening or sentimentalizing it.” Has BeensWholeLastsEvilProcessCommonVisionOur LivesDutyApproachAffairWeakeningCommon Life Author:Woodrow Wilson
“Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation forthe existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind's eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of the watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.” IfsKnowsMindDoeSaidPlayEyeFormPurposeProcessNaturalExistenceVisionRolesPlansEvolutionSightBlindSelfishExplanationUnconsciousSelectionNatural SelectionForesightSelfish GeneEvolution Of Life Author:Richard Dawkins
“For all its considerable merits and inspirational principles, the American system is based upon a continuous uninterrupted process of election campaigns, stretching out year after year. Lost in the perpetual scramble is any long-term vision.” YearsLongPoliticsLostProcessTermVisionPrinciplesUnited StatesElectionCampaignsMeritLong TermPerpetualStretching Author:Queen Noor of Jordan
“In Korea is what I do is I watch the playback of each take with all of the actors and spend a lot of time discussing each take. Also, I use the process we call auto-assembly because I storyboard my entire film right at the beginning, even before pre-production ever begins, so my vision is already laid out on the storyboard for everybody to share. It enables the on-set assembly person, as we call them, to cut together each take into a sequence. This enables a director to review the take within the context of the sequence of the scene.” PersonsUseTogetherFilmActorsProcessVisionWatchesCuttingShareSceneDirectorsProductionsReviewsSequenceKoreaAssemblyDiscussing Author:Park Chan-wook
“We're finally becoming aware of a process that has been unconscious since human experience began. From the start, humans have perceived a Birth Vision, and then after birth have gone unconscious, aware of only the vaguest of intuitions. At first in the early day of human history, the distance between what we intended and what we actually accomplished was very great, and then, over time, the distance has closed. Now we're the verge of remembering everything.” FirstsHumansHas BeensRememberProcessVisionGoneBirthBecomingDistanceIntuitionAccomplishedUnconsciousHuman ExperienceHuman HistoryVerge Author:James Redfield
“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.” SeemsGirlSexProcessVisionBedWindowDelightParadoxOfferingBedroomGlimpseEcstaticPersuadingUndressing Book:The Misfits: A Study of Sexual Outsiders Source: The Misfits: A Study of Sexual Outsiders
“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.” ThinkingImportantFilmCoursesProcessVisionUnexpectedFilmmakingThink Of You Author:Dagur Kari
“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.” WayWritingDifferentEndsSelfPlayCharacterActorsProcessActingBehindsVisionProduceBalanceExerciseDirectorsInstrumentsStudiosActressesIntenseMediumsReliefThe End Of The DaySelf IndulgentActors And Actresses Author:Lenny Kravitz
“When a photographer masters the tools and processes of the art, then the quality of the work is only limited by his creative vision.” ArtProcessQualityVisionCreativeMastersToolsPhotographerCreative Vision Author:Edward Weston
“The process by which the idea for a play comes to me has always been something I really couldn't pinpoint. A play just seems to materialize; like an apparition, it gets clearer and clearer and clearer. It's very vague at first, as in the case of Streetcar, which came after Menagerie. I simply had the vision of a woman in her late youth. She was sitting in a chair all alone by a window with the moonlight streaming in on her desolate face, and she'd been stood up by the man she planned to marry.” MenFirstsIdeasPlaySeemsFacesProcessVisionCasesYouthHe ManLateSittingWindowChairsVagueMoonlightAll AloneStood UpDesolateStreamingApparitionsMenagerieSitting In A Chair Author:Tennessee Williams
“It is not easy to build a great brand. It takes leadership to persuade the rest of the company to follow your vision. It takes an artistic sense of proportion and timing. It takes a ruthless willingness to distinguish yourself from competing brands and, hopefully, bury them in the process.” EasyProcessCompanyVisionBrandsHopefullyArtisticProportionWillingnessTimingCompetingRuthless Author:David F. D'Alessandro
“We value the clock for its speed and efficiency. The clock has its place, efficiency has its place, after effectiveness. The symbol of effectiveness is the compass a sense of direction, purpose, vision, perspective, and balance. But the empowerment process itself is not efficient.” PurposeValuesProcessVisionPerspectiveBalanceEmpowermentSpeedSymbolsClockEfficientEfficiencyCompassEffectiveness Author:Stephen Covey
“The greatest opportunities for creative transformation are often lodged in our discontents. Art is an alchemical process that feeds on emotional energy. When we realize that a perfect equilibrium in our lives might not be the best basis for making art, then we can begin to re-vision our stress points. So rather than try to rid your life of tension, consider doing something more creative with it.” TryingArtMightOpportunityEnergyProcessRealizingPerfectVisionCreativeOur LivesEmotionalArt IsBasesStressTransformationTensionBeing The BestDiscontentEquilibriumEmotional Energy Book:Trust the Process Source: Trust the Process
“Education, or enrichment, is a dynamic, evolving, lifelong process. Every time you look, sensitively with awareness, your vision grows.” LooksGrowsProcessVisionAwarenessEvolveLifelongEnrichment Author:John Paul Caponigro
“Chris was involved in that casting process. It was a different feel because New Moon was the first time that the Wolf Pack got together. With Eclipse, we were already established, so I didn't have that same bond or connection with David. It was very technical. He had a vision and an idea of what he wanted to do.” FeelsFirstsIdeasDifferentWantedTogetherProcessVisionInvolvedMoonFirst TimeConnectionsPacksCastingEclipseNew MoonWolf Packs Author:Tinsel Korey
“Photography, as an invention, was both art and science. The view it gave us of the world was in some measure acceptable because it was a product of our vision of the world; and it did so as part of the same process which seemed to impart 'truth': science.” WorldArtProcessViewsVisionProductsPhotographyInventionAcceptableImpartArt And Science Author:Joseph Kosuth
“Rapture teaching is one of the most faith deadening teachings ever preached. It has the most neutralizing affect on a Christian's aggressive growth process. We have a lot to do in this Earth and there is going to be a lot of stuff that we need to do in eternity. If you don't have a big comprehensive vision, both restorationally and eternally, then what motivation is there to do much except try to win a few souls to get a big reward in heaven?” IfsNeedsTryingSoulBigsEarthChristianMotivationWinningHeavenStuffProcessGrowthVisionTeachingEternityRewardsAggressiveComprehensiveRaptureRewards In Heaven Author:Bill Hamon
“When it comes to designing your first apartment, I think people get overwhelmed and end up collecting pieces that don't always mesh well together because they don't have a clear vision. Take your time and use tools that can help inspire and guide you through the process.” PeopleThinkingFirstsWellsEndsHelpingUseTogetherProcessVisionClearPiecesDesignInspireToolsGuidesApartmentOverwhelmedCollectingTake Your TimeMeshClear Vision Author:Karlie Kloss
“Many times when people have a vision, they think in terms of a big vision - I want to take my city for Christ. But the problem with many pastors and this type of vision is this: they haven't developed the strategy to fulfill that vision. A pastor preaches a dream or vision to his/her people, they get excited for a week, a month, or a couple of months, but there is no strategy, planning, or process to fulfill that vision.” PeopleThinkingWantProblemDreamBigsProcessTermChristCitiesVisionWeekHavensTypeMonthsCoupleStrategyExcitedPlanningPastor Author:John C. Maxwell
“Hope is not strategy. Hope fits with vision, but we must have a strategy and a process to make our vision become a reality.” RealityProcessVisionFitStrategy Author:John C. Maxwell
“President-elect Trump has the vision. And what Mike Pence brings to the table as vice president-elect is somebody who knows Capitol Hill. So he can take Donald Trump's vision, help translate that into actual policy, legislative language, bill text, working through the process so that it ends up back on Donald Trump's desk so that he can sign it into law.” KnowsEndsHelpingLawLanguageProcessPresidentVisionPolicyTrumpTablesBillsVicesHillsTranslateDesksMikeVice PresidentCapitolCapitol Hill Author:Jeb Hensarling
“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
“[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