Vision Quotes - Page 90

She did nothing to try to control the shakes that rattled her body,and didn't attempt to stop herself from crying. Tears left both of her eyes at the far corners,slipping out and flowing over her temples.Some landed in her ears. Some eased down her neck and were absorbed by the pillow.Others clouded her vision,as if they didn't want to leave home.

Are you responsibly optimistic? Pessimism and leadership do not mix. Leaders are positively visionary.

Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes.

Only love has clear vision. Hatred has cloudy vision. When we hate we know not what we do.

I'm a woman with a mission. I've learned to believe in myself, my vision and to do things the way I want them done.

There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.

After his great awakening, the Buddha continued to meditate and to devote himself to others; otherwise his vision would have receded into a pleasant memory.

The yearning for strong leadership is more about strength of purpose - clarity of vision - than about merely 'getting tough'.

The reward of renunciation is some good greater than the thing renounced. To renounce with no vision of such a good, from fear or in automatic obedience to a formula, is to weaken the springs of life, and to diminish the soul's resistance to this world.

I lived with a coffee farmer called Dukale on a trip I made with World Vision to Ethiopia, and realised there's no good reason for the disparity in opportunity around the world.

Television, cable, the Internet, that's knocked the boundaries down.

I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists.

I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.

A deliberate rejection of duty prescribed by already recognized truth cannot but destroy, or at least impair most seriously the clearness of our mental vision.

There is a middlebrow snobbery in America that praises everything on public television and disdains everything on the commercial networks as a blight.

It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however familiar, from a point a hair's breadth aside from our habitual path or routine, to be overcome, enchanted by its beauty and significance ... To perceive freshly, with fresh senses is to be inspired.

When television came in, everybody thought that was the end of the movie business, which was not and is not.

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.

I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.

The beauty of the picture is an abiding concrete of the painter's vision.

I think I did have a reputation for being grumpy. I don't think I'm grumpy. I have opinions. I have an independent vision. I am a purposeful person. But on a daily basis, I think I'm other than grumpy. I think it is a case where I am coming to do business and not there just to be flattered and cajoled and used.

The more we seek exclusivity in friendship, the more it becomes obligatory and the less likely it is to fulfill the wonderful vision of what true friendship can be.

When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.

I cannot imagine why my vision will have some value in the world..and yet I know it will..I think I will count because I am patient and recueilli (contemplative) in some degree.

The mass media in the days of newspapers and television it's hard to be able to find a story that's about just what you're interested in at the time you're interested in it.