Vision Quotes - Page 60

The perennial architectural debate has always been, and will continue to be, about art versus use, visions versus pragmatism, aesthetics versus social responsibility. In the end, these unavoidable conflicts provide architecture's essential and productive tensions; the tragedy is that so little of it rises above the level imposed by compromise, and that this is the only work most of us see and know.

To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.

Filmmaking is a creative process so there is a lot of collaboration that happens on set between an actor and director, but at the end of the day, we're there to actualize the director's vision and things happen organically.

Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.

New ways of seeing can disclose new things… But turn the question around. Do new things make for new ways of seeing?

Justice may be blind, but we all know that diversity in the courts, as in all aspects of society, sharpens our vision and makes us a stronger nation.

I am worthy of attracting unlimited abundance and prosperity into my life, regardless of what life experiences have gone before me. I only reinforce and contemplate images that are in harmony with this vision.

Leadership is a function of knowing yourself, having a vision that is well communicated, building trust among colleagues, and taking effective action to realize your own leadership potential.

Vision w/o execution is just hallucination. You need the right combination of visionary + team that can execute

My vision is a world of accessible intuition.

Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and which has the wider vision?

I'm a sponge, the more I absorb, the more I am able to articulate my vision, as artists do, like Picasso. I'm an artist in that light. I went from being an artist to an artiste.

I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.

Every movie I've been in has ended up on television.

I like being in new places and seeing new sights.

Obviously, if a director doesn't communicative a clear, relevant vision of the material, it will not succeed no matter how good the material.

A vision could put you on a path you don't want to follow.

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

[With my photographs] you have a [single, forever fixed] moment and my particular angle of vision. My tyrannical condition, as it were, is that I prescribe your vision.

My work is in itself a ghost of my vision.

No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.

Concerning perfect blessedness which consists in a vision of God.

I have heard of a monk who in his cell had a glorious vision of Jesus revealed to him. Just then a bell rang, which called him away to distribute loaves of bread among the poor beggars at the gate. He was sorely tried as to whether he should lose a scene so inspiring. He went to his act of mercy; and when he came back the vision remained more glorious than ever.

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…) A good novel editor is invisible.

Television, while chemically non-invasive, nevertheless is every bit as addicting and physiologically damaging as any other drug.