Common Vision Quotes

#1. We are confident that through discussing with Arab and Islamic states, as well as with the League of Arab States, we will be able to reach a common vision towards maintaining the constants of our people and deal with reality.

Khaled Mashal

#2. While he wanted to teach me what he knew, I wanted him to see what it all looked like for me - perhaps love is a process of finding a common vision of reality.

Aleksandar Hemon

#3. Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.

Jimmy Carter

#4. We must work together on a common vision and a common goal.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. Leadership is a process where a leader has a purpose oriented destination and lets the followers find the best way to get there with a common vision and goal.

Debasish Mridha

#6. A common vision can unite people of very different temperaments.

Timothy Keller

#7. Bound together by our beliefs, we are like minded individuals, sharing a common vision, pushing toward a world rid of color lines.

Janet Jackson

#8. Effective leaders help others to understand the necessity of change and to accept a common vision of the desired outcome.

John P. Kotter

#9. Meadowlark and I share a common vision of bringing joy and laughter to others.

Bill Cosby

#10. A nation can be mighty, when the citizens put away their political differences, work together for a common vision, a common goal and a common good.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. By learning more, by doing more, by becoming more, and by creating a common vision, a leader is a person who can inspire others to change for the better.

Debasish Mridha

#12. Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

Andrew Carnegie

#13. The MDGs have been a fundamental framework for global development. A clear agenda, with measurable goals and targets, and a common vision have been crucial for this success. There is now an expectation around the world that sooner, rather than later, all these goals can and must be achieved.

Sha Zukang

#14. A leader first tries to listen, then tries to understand, then creates a common vision and then together takes action for the realization.

Debasish Mridha

#15. If Turkey is prepared to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, then its leaders can proceed immediately to direct dialogue with its counterparts in Armenia to define a common vision for the future.

Mark Foley

#16. It is only individual great forces, which must be pulled together, in our common vision of combating the climate change.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. When people come together around common vision, they can accomplish great things. We need the instruments that pull our people together, not apart.

Nainoa Thompson

#18. As a good gardener prepares the soil, so a wise leader creates an environment that promotes community ... community involves a common place, a common time, and a common purpose. Just getting people in the same place at the same time does not produce a team. Community requires a common vision.

Diane Dreher

#19. My job is not to micromanage my team, but to craft a vision based on the business goals of the company and encourage the HR leaders who report to me to be brave, innovative, and proactive in pursuit of that common vision.

Patrick M. Wright

#20. Let's all pull together and make these United States the grandest place in this whole country. I see a vision. A glorious vision. A united people, marching forward shoulder to shoulder, giving their all for the common good, working while I whistle.

Gracie Allen

#21. I think true love is never blind, / But rather brings an added light; / An inner vision quick to find / The beauties hid from common sight.

Phoebe Cary

#22. It is an unfortunate fact that the bulk of humanity is too limited in its mental vision to weigh with patience and intelligence those isolated phenomena, seen and felt only by a psychologically sensitive few, which lie outside its common experience.

H.P. Lovecraft

#23. The Three Armies can be deprived of their commanding officer, but even a common man cannot be deprived of his purpose.

Confucius

#24. Teaching people skills without giving them a vision for a better future - a vision based on common values - is only training.

Nido R. Qubein

#25. common problem people have is discerning when a dream or vision is to be taken symbolically (as a parable) and when it is to be taken literally. As

Praying Medic

#26. When I see people of my likeness, or who are somebody that I feel connected to, doing something great, I fee like I can do it. It gives me some hope and vision.

Common

#27. Assume that art begins in unhappiness. True, the goal of art is to convey a vision of coherence and peace, but the effort to develop that vision starts in the more common experience of confusion and pain.

Robert Adams

#28. If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing, a pictorial photograph.

Paul Strand

#29. Our vision is not just of economic growth, but also of a growth which would improve the life of the common man,

Manmohan Singh

#30. Every mind has another vision of reality. There is not a common reality. Every person thinks he is like the others, but every person is different, living in his own psychology.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#31. That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.

Dennis Potter

#32. Florida is a place of unparalleled diversity of backgrounds, experiences and vision. It makes our culture unique, but it can also make it difficult to define a common identity and create a sense of community that reaches beyond our neighborhoods to all corners of our state.

Jeb Bush

#33. If anything is scary about my writing, it's that it's the product of a very particular vision and doesn't reference common speech that heavily. By 'common speech,' I don't mean language as much as an agreed-on way of seeing, or a shorthand.

Mary Gaitskill

#34. Ordinary men with extraordinary power
Common men with uncommon results
Usual men with unusual anointing
Unschooled mortal men with immortal vision
Weak men with mighty deeds
-Insight for Fruitful Living

Ikechukwu Joseph

#35. Intelligence is a necessity, but when one is without a supernatural sense, intelligence becomes senseless.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#36. When a heroine is satisfied that she has exercised judgement with clear vision, moral principle,and common sense, she need not acquiesce to opposing viewpoints.

Jane Austen

#37. The vision of a nation formed from many different peoples bound together by a common love of freedom was staked out long before our lifetimes or even our parents' or grandparents' lifetimes.

Trent Lott

#38. One of the common themes you will read in interview after interview is the call to keep fighting for your vision. This is a message to women directors, producers, writers - anyone who wants to work in the business. Your voice counts. Your vision matters.

Melissa Silverstein

#39. If people who have to work together in an enterprise trust one another it is because they are all operating to a common set of ethical norms ... such a society will be better able to innovate ... since the high degree of trust will permit a wide variety of social relationships to emerge ...

Francis Fukuyama

#40. 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.

Ernst Haas

#41. He is in no real danger. He merely suffers from a lethargy, a sickness that is common among the depressed. He has forgotten who he really is, but he will recover, for he used to know me, and all I have to do is cloud the mist that beclouds his vision.

Boethius

#42. I hold the most archaic values on earth ... the fertility of the soul, the magic of the animals, the power-vision in solitude ... the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe.

Gary Snyder

#43. There is an enormous pressure placed on gay novelists because they are the only spokespeople. The novelist's first obligation is to be true to his own vision, not to be some sort of common denominator or public relations man to all gay people.

Edmund White

#44. You will find a common dichotomy in life. Those who don't have vision or determination, and refuse to dream the impossible, are always in the majority.

Charles R. Swindoll

#45. The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.

Calvin Coolidge

#46. I have seen the poor suffer when nobles seek the purity of ideals. I have seen the powerless die when princes believe in the nostalgia of their dreams. I have seen the common people torn from peace and thrown into war when kings yearn to test the clarity of their vision.

Ken Liu

#47. It is not common for people to think of their own lives as creations. You are not encouraged to have with your own life the kind of relationship a creator has with his or her vision. But your life can be a creation.

Robert Fritz

#48. What a great teacher, a great parent, a great psychotherapist and a great coach have in common is a deep belief in the potential of the person with whom they are concerned. They relate to the person from their vision of his or her worth and value.

Nathaniel Branden

#49. Ask yourself, 'Who are the secure ones, the comfortable, the eternally cheerful?' I'll tell you the answer: only those with dull vision-the common people and the children

Irvin D. Yalom

#50. Labels cloud our vision and distract us from seeing how much we have in common with one another.

Russell Simmons