Vision Quotes - Page 57

To show the potentialities of a brighter future we must first resuscitate the visions of a better past.

Any regeneration project that fails to put environmental and social benefits at its very heart is unlikely to achieve anything more than a very short-lived spasm of spurious prosperity

Boys go to Washington to be somebody...men go to do something.

Laughter destroys any divisions between people.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

Where God gives vision He always provides provision

Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.

Television is basically teaching whether you want it to or not.

Until a radical change takes place and we wipe out all nationalities, all ideologies, all religious divisions, and establish a global relationship - psychologically first, inwardly before organizing the outer - we shall go on with wars.

The government would have preferred not to take a stand, but the constant presence of the Israeli-Arab conflict on our television screens made it an issue that could no longer be avoided.

It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.

When I'm acting, I wish I was out there, being a part of it and making it. It's all on your name to do that. It's your vision. You're going to get slandered for your work, and I like that. As an actor, it's so hard. I'd rather direct than act.

Your actors need to trust you as a director, but normally, I think you just need to have an open communication between the actors and the director. I think the director needs to really paint his or her vision to the cast and let them know the kind of mood that he or she is making. I think that's very important.

In my case, I think my exile saved my life, for it inexorably confirmed something which Americans appear to have great difficulty accepting. Which is, simply, this: a man is not a man until he is able and willing to accept his own vision of the world, no matter how radically this vision departs from others.

No vision is worth the paper it's printed on unless it is communicated constantly and reinforced with rewards.

Every time you share your vision, you strengthen your own subconscious belief that you can achieve it.

I am not seeking anything but service to my creator. I do not need a house, I do not need a car, I do not need any of that, but to be present with each guest that sits across from me, and I am committed to a bigger thing than me, which is the vision of own, because own is going to outlive all of us.

I came here as a man of visions. I was sent here as a man of visions, like a second Noah. I'm not a Noah but I'm here as a second Noah. I'm here as a red light is in the street.

One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.

As our hearts become pure, our vision becomes clearer.

It's not surprising that you wouldn't see that side of me on television, but in real life I find the world to be quite a funny place.

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.

If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be banished, and if the wellbeing of the world's people enhanced - not just in this generation but in succeeding generations - we must make sure we take care of the natural environment and resources on which our economic activity depends.

I hope you are reading to your children, out loud. That's much better than watching television, much better. They won't get very much out of television except some bad thoughts.

Your vision, ideas and plans have the power to shape the future, but not if you keep them to yourself.