Top 100 Quotes About Visions
#1. A bold attitude is what true leaders use to crash down failure before they venture with their visions!
Israelmore Ayivor
#2. O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only.
John Milton
#3. What you got, son, I call it shinin on, the Bible calls it having visions, and there's scientists that call it precognition. I've read up on it, son. I've studied on it. They all mean seeing the future.
Stephen King
#4. The man himself was pitiably inferior in mentality and language alike; but his glowing, titanic visions, though described in a barbarous disjointed jargon, were assuredly things which only a superior or even exceptional brain could conceive.
H.P. Lovecraft
#5. It no longer makes me cry and die and tear myself to see her go because everything goes away from me like that now - girls, visions, anything, just in the same way and forever and I accept lostness forever.
Jack Kerouac
#6. I had this idea that I wanted to do this mixture of visions of African American women and visions of African American men. And call it 'The Men' and call it 'The Women' and show different faces of these two people.
Faith Ringgold
#7. But I was starving! You know I always forget my lunch - and who expects me to concentrate on Advanced Manga Drawing Level 2 when visions of pork buns and powdered doughnuts dance in my head? Teacher Suzuki acted like it was the end of the world just because I got hungry,
Bunny Lilka
Tiffany Fulton
#8. I'm not a good faster. My friends have visions of God, I have visions of hamburgers. The only time I watch the Food Channel is when I'm fasting. It's pitiful. We did a 40 day fast. I bought 29 cookbooks. I don't cook, but the pictures! I bought a deep-fryer and we don't eat deep-fried food!
Bill Johnson
#9. [D]oes the real world have any more substance than visions and hallucinations when we're having them? At any given moment, what's happening in our minds is all and everything that happens.
Roger Ebert
#10. Visions describe what best should be, could be - if and when mankind has the will to make them real.
James Rouse
#11. Politics is brutal because it engages the most fundamental human impulses for affection, honor, power, and fame. Great principles and grand visions are ennobling, but at its best politics is an imperfect means to an altruistic end.
Jon Meacham
#12. FANATICISM is, to superstition, what delirium is to fever, and fury to anger : he who has ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities, and imaginations for prophecies, is an enthusiast ; and he, who sticks not at supporting his folly by murder, is a fanatic.
Voltaire
#13. The revolutionary artist does not only focus on the negative aspects of capitalist lives, but also creates visions of a revolutionary future.
Pablo Picasso
#14. It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness.
Loren Eiseley
#15. The arts give us our identity as a community; they also draw new people, fresh visions, and renewable economic opportunity to our community.
Gavin Newsom
#16. An imposing wall prominently divides the visions of President Obama and congressional Republicans when it comes to economic growth and creating jobs. Solyndra is on one side and the Keystone pipeline is on the other.
Fred Upton
#17. The other dark places,' Evan whispered. Visions of tunnels of earth and stone, caves and streams entered his head. It was far beneath them. He knew it was real and it was down there, waiting.
Mary G. Thompson
#18. The funny thing about decisions based on signs or gut or visions is that they're usually nothing but noble outs. Just another way to sabotage yourself and keep your bigger life at bay.
Jackson Galaxy
#19. We have visions of the way we would like things to be but they rarely are.
Chloe Thurlow
#20. Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny.
Ben Nicholson
#21. history teaches us that visions come most quickly to lone obsessives.
Alex Mar
#22. Something new has taken place in the past five to eight years. Technologists are providing almost religious visions, and their ideas are resonating in some ways with the same idea of the Rapture.
Eric Horvitz
#23. Develop a vision, not a goal. Visions are much more powerful. 98% of what's going on in your brain is subconscious. Developing a vision requires the use of more of your brain than just developing a thought, which suggests we are tapping into subconscious brain power.
Josh Bezoni
#24. And what more could I possibly ask as an artist than that your most precious visions, however rare, assume sometimes the forms of my images.
Maya Deren
#25. In the absence of a great dream pettiness prevails. Shred visions foster risk taking, courage and innovation. Keeping the end in mind creates the confidence to make decisions even in moments of crisis.
Peter Senge
#26. Faith is a light of such supreme brilliance that it dazzles the mind and darkens all its visions of other realities, but in the end when we become used to the new light, we gain a new view of all reality transfigured and elevated in the light itself.
Thomas Merton
#27. We expect him to take up a lot of space in his gangly experiments with life, and we teach him, through task, work, game, activity, and experience how to use that space. Above all, we give him mentoring and supervision that respects and teaches his gifts, his visions, even his shadowy inner demons
Michael Gurian
#28. Children have two visions, the inner and the outer. Of the two the inner vision is brighter.
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
#29. It is my meditation all the day, and more than my meat and drink, to know how I shall make the Saints of God comprehend the visions that roll like an overflowing surge before my mind.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#30. She undresses in the paradise
of her memory
she is unaware of the fierce fate
of her visions
she fears not knowing how to name
what does not exist
Alejandra Pizarnik
#31. Your sight takes you where there is light ... But your visions can take you through the dark places! Maintain your sight, but add your visions!
Israelmore Ayivor
#32. When the last days come
We shall see visions
More vivid than sunsets
Brighter than stars
We will recognize each other
And see ourselves for the first time
The way we really are
John Darnielle
#33. We sat in silence, listening to strange creaks and groans in the maze, the echo of stones grinding together as tunnels changed, grew, and expanded. The dark made me think about the visions I'd seen of Nico di Angelo, and suddenly I realized something.
Rick Riordan
#34. You know the world has gone mad when those who have enlightened, compassionate views and future visions, are accused of borderline insanity, ridiculed and criticised for thinking positively.
Mango Wodzak
#35. Visions of glory, spare my aching sight.
Thomas Gray
#37. I believe men need to get together and talk about what it means to be male - to share dreams, business ideas, ministry visions, and struggles, and to pray together and declare war on the weakness among us.
Bruce Lengeman
#38. But in the end they were not called saints because of the way they died, or because of their visions or wondrous deeds, but because of their extraordinary capacity for the love and goodness, which reminded others of the love of God.
Robert Ellsberg
#39. I am an artist, I trade in uncertainty and superstition and cant. I invent dark visions of impossible situations that can never be resolved.
Ralph Steadman
#40. 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.
Voltaire
#41. She entered the place of her dreams along a much traveled path and returned treading very carefully in order not to shatter the tenuous visions against the harsh light of consciousness.
Isabel Allende
#42. What are we going to do with the body?" She had visions of dragging it into the swamp, whispering, "Here, gator, gator," and she made a little sound of distress at the thought.
Jennifer Crusie
#43. Strategy equals execution. All the great ideas and visions in the world are worthless if they can't be implemented rapidly and efficiently. Good leaders delegate and empower others liberally, but they pay attention to details, every day.
Colin Powell
#44. But the more store you set in visions the more they have a habit of coming true.
Sally Green
#46. From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
Miguel De Unamuno
#47. The whistle of the old steam trains ... could conjure up visions of bleak distances with one solitary wail.
M.C. Beaton
#48. You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day, but it is the life of every day from which the elements of a better life must come.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#49. Hopeful visions touch possibilities that only exist in the gaze of the faithful.
Bryant McGill
#50. The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#51. We will understand the depth of our vision when at some point we are finally faced with the price we must pay to achieve it. And when the price comes calling, most visions end up falling.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#52. Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don't change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.
John C. Maxwell
#53. When I sing I have a lot of visions. Like what's happening now in my life.
Cyndi Lauper
#54. Indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable.
George Eliot
#55. I dream in color, and I have visions of feelings and energies that I would love to feel.
Uzo Aduba
#56. I do not believe anyone has reached such perfection, surpassing all others, except Christ, to whom God immediately revealed - without words or visions - the conditions which lead to
salvation.
Baruch Spinoza
#57. By all means play the game of life, create new visions and have fun but do not identify yourself with your vision.
Christopher Dines
#58. Recognize that the great majority of us aren't trained actors and entertainers. Usually, it's not our faces, our bodies, our personas or our stage presence that sells our books. It's our stories, our visions and our voices.
M.J. Rose
#59. Democratic nations care but little for what has been, but they are haunted by visions of what will be.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#60. Like atoms begetting atoms that beget molecules,
when uniquely linked, words form a DNA
of indelible visions.
Todd Crawshaw
#61. We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies - images of potential tomorrows.
Alvin Toffler
#62. I have visions and ideas about different things. Other actors just inspire you, so writing is something I would love to do more of. I would really be interested in doing something in that vein, writing something for myself or someone else and directing for sure.
Emayatzy E. Corinealdi
#63. Poetry...is full of visions pulled more from our hearts than from our minds. Our greatest poems are written in the dust of our deepest memories.
John Ritter
#64. We should ask ourselves; What are the Brethren saying? The living prophets can open the visions of eternity; they give counsel on how to overcome the world. We cannot know that counsel if we do not listen. We cannot receive the blessings we are promised if we do not follow the counsel given
James E. Faust
#65. Successful people pay more attention to their visions and goals than to history and the opinions of others.
Alan Cohen
#66. Women have waited millions of years, growing separate as another species, with visions and priorities no man-words, no man-measurements can comprehend.
Kate Braverman
#67. I don't want any of this. I just want to be what I was before you showed up here and all hell broke loose. I want to be popular and dating the hottest guy in school. Now I'm none of those things, and I'm a human who has scary visions and don't know what to do about any of it.
Kristin Cast
#68. These visions which I saw were not in sleep nor in dreams, nor in my imagination nor by bodily eyes or outward ears nor in a hidden place; but in watching, aware with the pure eyes of the mind and inner ear of the heart.
Hildegard Of Bingen
#69. Women's status in society has become the standard by which humanity's progress toward civility and peace can be measured."-Architects of Peace: Visions of Hope in Words and Images
Mahnaz Afkhami
#70. I listened to their last, gasping cries. Their vanishing words. I watched their love visions and freed them from their fear. I took them all away, and if ever there was a time I needed distraction, this was it.
Markus Zusak
#71. Most visions of extraterrestrial life are actually steeped in human hubris. The fictional extraterrestrials of 'Star Trek' or a hundred other space operas are less alien than many of my neighbors. And funny, the ones running the place are mostly WASPish men.
Nathan Myhrvold
#72. I can't afford to step away from acting, but the one thing I've learnt after all these years is that I don't fit in. It's very difficult to be at the mercy of other people's whims and visions.
Paddy Considine
#73. Discouragement comes to those Christians, who are living and are working hard to fulfill their visions and callings
Sunday Adelaja
#74. Too often, shared visions really mean, "I have a vision; you share it!"
Andy Hargreaves
#75. A terrible depression yesterday. Visions of my life petering out into a kind of soft-brained stupor from lack of use.
Sylvia Plath
#76. The essence of leadership is not giving things or even providing visions. It is offering oneself and one's spirit.
Lee Bolman
#77. Dreams are the way to unfulfilled wishes in the individual; visions are the way to unfulfilled dreams in mankind.
Gabrielle Bernstein
#78. Those old stories of visions and dreams guiding men have their truth; we are saved by making the future present to ourselves.
George Eliot
#79. I start movies with people that I believe in and people with visions, you know, that I believe in. And so if it doesn't kind of come together in the right way, at least I was doing it because I believed in the person and the movie.
James Franco
#80. Be of good cheer, your visions will be fulfilled in their own time.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#81. Entrepreneurs cannot be happy people until they have seen their visions become the new reality across all of society.
Bill Drayton
#82. I saw the dance as a vision of ineffable power. A man could, with dignity and a towering majesty, dance. Not mince, cavort, do "fancy dancing" or "showoff" steps. No: Dance as Michelangelo's visions dance and as the music of Bach dances.
Jose Limon
#83. There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
Stendhal
#84. 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.
Augusten Burroughs
#85. I am filled with fear and tormented with terrible visions of pain. Everywhere people are hurting one another, the planet is rampant with injustices, whole societies plunder groups of their own people, mothers imprison sons, children perish while brothers war. O, woe.
Robert Anton Wilson
#86. Half the charm of climbing mountains is born in visions preceding this experience - visions of what is mysterious, remote, inaccessible.
George Leigh Mallory
#87. These other cultures are not failed attempts to be us; they are unique manifestations of the spirit - other options, other visions of life itself.
Wade Davis
#88. Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.
Edwin Louis Cole
#89. I think there's probably always been visions and voices, and these were variously ascribed to the divine or demonic or the muses. I think many poets still feel they depend on an inner voice, or a voice which tells them what to do.
Oliver Sacks
#90. I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange stories that at their best are dreamlike intense versions and visions of today.
China Mieville
#91. Sometimes, when you're on the streets, certain music inspires you, and then you have a vision. But, at the end of the day, it's a synthesis of visions, so you have to think, as a director, of a scene, or how to deliver a line, or how do this visually.
Wong Kar-Wai
#92. Meanwhile the children were tucked snug in their beds,
while visions of candy corn
danced in their heads.
Natasha Wing
#93. My Oberon, what visions have I seen!
Methought I was enamored of an ass.
Titania, Act IV, Scene 1, Lines 76-77
William Shakespeare
#94. I want people to have their own visions for the dance. Some generations will sit back and relate to the music. And the young people ... they'll have the dance right in front of them.
Judith Jamison
#95. Her heart broke. Because of sorrow. Because of guilt. Because of repressed dreams, visions and fantasies. Because almost nothing in her life had gone as she'd hoped.
Jonas Jonasson
#96. In visions of the night, like dropping rain,
Descend the many memories of pain
Aeschylus
#97. We have grand visions of our lives because we assume we are the center of the universe while in reality, the universe doesn't even realize we're there.
R.S. Grey
#98. We look for visions of heaven," Oswald Chambers had written, "and we never dream that all the time God is in the commonplace things and people around us." He
Jan Karon
#99. When people say all politicians are the same, ask yourself if Obama was the same as Bush, if Francois Hollande is the same as Sarkozy. They are not. They are human beings with different views and different visions for the world.
Edi Rama
#100. In tech in particular, everyone is so serious all the time and has these grand visions.
Evan Spiegel
