Vision Quotes - Page 35

My activism really is for myself, because I see places in the world where I feel I should be. If there is something really bad, really evil, happening somewhere, then that is where I should be. I need, for myself, to feel that I have stood there. It feels a lot better than just watching it on television.

Television is just like making a hole in the wall. All kinds of stuff comes in, on the screen, that we would never allow to come in through the door.

It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.

If we make provision for sinning tomorrow, we will be sinning tomorrow.

The Tao is in all things, in their divisions and their fullness. What I dislike about divisions is that they multiply, and what i dislike about multiplication is that it makes people want to hold fast to it. So people go out and forget to return, seeing little more than ghosts.

War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions.

I had the feeling that some horrible image was just beyond the field of vision, moving, as I turned my head, so that I never quite saw it.

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless.

[I]t is contrary to the economy of God for any member of the Church, or any one, to receive instruction for those in authority, higher than themselves . . . if any person have a vision or a visitation from a heavenly messenger, it must be for his own benefit and instruction; for the fundamental principles, government, and doctrine of the Church are vested in the keys of the kingdom.

What has happened makes the world. Live on the edge, looking.

Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.

As painters...we must always remember that our precious poetic visions and spiritual insights will remain forever locked within us until we can boil them down to a complex arrangement of a few hundred or possibly even thousands of brushstrokes.

It is a task of art to express clear vision of reality.

An accurate, insightful view of current reality is as important as a clear vision.

The closer we are to God, to divine attributes - such as absolute truth, goodness, and beauty - the more we wonder. When we separate ourselves from truth, goodness, and beauty, we lose wonder and become cynical. The Enlightenment was basically the narrowing of our vision to a purely scientific, empirical, rationalistic worldview, screwing down the manhole covers on us so we became squinting underground creatures.

Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.

Christopher Reeve understood that everything begins with hope. His vision of walking again, his belief that he would be able to in his lifetime, towered over his broken body.

I don't like being on television when I'm playing live. I don't even like being on Jools Holland or any of them programs.

Achieving your vision doesn't mean you've reached the end of the line. It simply means that you've come to a new starting place.

When television is good, nothing is better. When it's bad, nothing is worse.

This 'flying saucer' situation is not at all imaginary or seeing too much in some natural phenomena. Something is really flying around. The phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictitious.

All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.

Hard work and diligence are essential to success, but they require an internal motivation. That internal motivation is Vision

I was an economist now turning into a human being - as if these are two different things. I don't know but I did that and then I had no vision.