Vision Quotes - Page 34

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.

For a subject worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television, American Indians remain probably the least understood and most misunderstood Americans of us all.

With his trademark courage and conviction, President Reagan led us out of the Cold War, spreading his vision of freedom, resulting in the release of millions of people from the yoke of communism.

Don't try to describe the ocean if you've never seen it.

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

In truth, ayahuasca is the television of the forest.

When war becomes a trade, it benefits, like all other trades, from the division of labour.

Marcel Duchamp, one of this century's pioneers, moved his work through the retinal boundaries which had been established with Impressionism into a field where language, thought and vision act upon one another. There it changed form through a complex interplay of new mental and physical materials, heralding many of the technical, mental and visual details to be found in more recent art... He declared that he wanted to kill art ("for myself") but his persistent attempts to destroy frames of reference altered our thinking, established new units of thought, a "new thought for that object."

To me the greatest thing that has happened on this earth of ours is the rise of the human race to the vision of God. That story of the human rise to what I call the vision of God is the story which is told in the Bible.

Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.

Spontaneity is not enough - or, to be more exact, spontaneity is not possible until there is an unconscious coordination of form, space and vision.

If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.

The visionary who is serving God ceases to live for personal ambitions, but rather for God's ambitions.

If you don't like me, you don't like me. You can call me anytime; I'll have an opinion on just about anything. I will also tell you if I shouldn't have an opinion on something - I just make television shows.

The evolution of government from its medieval, Mafia-like character to that embodying modern legal institutions and instruments is a major part of the history of freedom. It is a part that tends to be obscured or ignored because of the myopic vision of many economists, who persist in modeling government as nothing more than a gigantic form of theft and income redistribution.

I am a street performer as much as I am a stage performer. Yes, I have a television show, but every trick, every 'Mindfreak' you see, I can do live.

I have been blessed to see visions of eternity; and events in my future that have been important for me to foresee, have been revealed to me.

I wouldn’t want to be labelled unless it was something much broader and inclusive such as an ecological artist or a visionary artist, but there’s a constraint in the definition of a feminist artist, you’re an artist and you’re a feminist.

It's one thing to see a vision; it's another thing to be seized by a vision.

The vision is really about empowering workers, giving them all the

The arc of history is longer than human vision. It bends. We abolished slavery, we granted universal suffrage. We have done hard things before. And every time it took a terrible fight between people who could not imagine changing the rules, and those who said, 'We already did. We have made the world new.' The hardest part will be to convince yourself of the possibilities, and hang on.

Let your vision be world embracing rather than confined to your own self.

Sometimes not seeing things can be a blessing.

From the moment you are clear in your vision of yourself and how you project that vision in your family, your community and in the world, that's all that matters.