Vision Quotes - Page 80

I had this crazy, a bit of a near-death experience in Estonia. I had these visions of the future but I was in this state where I felt the past, the present, and the future were all happening at the same time.

We cannot and must not allow ourselves to have the message of Hiroshima and Nagasaki fade completely from our minds, and we cannot allow our vision or ideals to fade, either. For if we do, we have but one course left for us. And that flash of light will not only rob us of our vision, but it will rob us of our lives, our progeny, and our very existence.

'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.

I like the iPhone, the iPad, all the various members of that family. But I like all the various technologies that are becoming available to make the world more accessible to people who are blind and with low vision. I also like that more and more people are committing themselves to close captioning so the deaf can really know what's going on. I like the position of making buildings more accessible by having ramps and various ways people who are paraplegic to be able to get around.

A people who`s primary aims are driving, shopping, and television are subject to terrorism at any time.

I'm a writer. Now I've started to be on television. I have a big mouth. And I have good TV teeth, they say.

No Child Left Behind ... is a giraffe with an elephant's body. ... You can't take the vision of Ted Kennedy and merge it to the public policy of George Bush and come out with anything that works.

The best part of being on a television series for all those years is that you really get to hone your craft.

The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

Eventually the Internet will be accessed by PC, television, and wireless devices.

I watched television a little, but I mostly just drew and read magazines.

At this moment, when Ireland seems about to break into something new, we thought it was worth looking back at a time when people seemed to have found a way out of the sectarian division of the country.

Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be.

The Simpsons is the best thing on American television.

...as absurd and dishonest as claiming that the trouble with computer games is that they stop people watching television.

Through imagination, we can visualize the uncredited worlds of potential that lie within us.

Without that thick skin and a clear vision of what it is you want to do, what it is you know you want to do, it can be really easy to get out here and get lost and swept away in whatever is going on. You really have to be steadfast in the mind for sure.

Failure to summon forth the courage to risk a nondogmatic and nonevasive stance on such crucial existential matters can also blur our ethical vision. If our actions in the world are to stem from an encounter with what is central in life, they must be unclouded by either dogma or prevarication. Agnosticism is no excuse for indecision. If anything, it is a catalyst for action; for in shifting concern away from a future life and back to the present, it demands an ethics of empathy rather than a metaphysics of fear and hope.

Seeing is a gift that comes with practice.

Opening to the sacred, we transform our vision of ourselves.

Not that you need to be a saint to have visions worth talking about. The most effective prescription, I suspect, is to be a disciplined sinner. Perfection, as Valery noted, is work.

A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.

There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.

All is a play in consciousness. All divisions are illusory. You can know the false only. The true you must yourself be.

And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood.