"The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is."
— Allan Bloom

"If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!
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— Pablo Picasso

"It’s a secondhand world we’re born into. What is novel to us is only so because we’re newborn, and what we cannot see, that has come before- what our parents have seen and been and done- are the hand-me-downs we begin to wear as swaddling clothes, even as we ourselves are naked. The flaw runs through us, implicating us in its imperfection even as it separates us, delivers us onto opposite sides of a chasm. It is both terribly beautiful and terribly sad, but it is, finally, the fault in the universe that gives birth to us all."
— Katherine Min (Secondhand World)

"Every child needs a champion."
— Hillary Rodham Clinton

"Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare. "
— Japanese Proverb

"The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I can say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be;

In “Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat,” his first speech as Prime Minister to the House of Commons May 13, 1940 quoted by Jeffrey R. Holland in “However Long and Hard the Road” BYU Devotional 18 Jan 1983"
— Winston S. Churchill

"To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength."
— Lawrence Clark Powell

"The first step toward creating an improved future is developing the ability to envision it. VISION will ignite the fire of passion that fuels our commitment to do WHATEVER IT TAKES to achieve excellence. Only VISION allows us to transform dreams of greatness into the reality of achievement through human action. VISION has no boundaries and knows no limits. Our VISION is what we become in life. "
— Tony Dungy

"Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper."
— Isaac Bashevis Singer

"Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes time. Vision with action can change the world."
— Joel Barker

"There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes."
— August Strindberg

"A spirit with a vision is a dream with a mission."
— Neil Peart

"He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window."
— Charles Baudelaire

"We shall change all that...because it is possible to change the world, if one is determined enough, and if one sees with sufficient clarity just what has to be changed."
— Alexander McCall Smith

"Tell me a story. / In this century, and moment, of mania, tell me a story. / Make it a story of great distances, and starlight. / The name of the story will be time, / But you must not speak its name. / Tell me a story of deep delight."
— Robert Penn Warren

"A vision we give to others of who and what they could become has power when it echoes what the spirit has already spoken into their souls."
— Larry Crabb

"Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen."
— Victor Hugo (Les Miserables)

"Only as high as i reach can i grow, only as far as i seek can i go, only as deep as i look can i see, only as much as i dream can i be."
— Karen Ravn

"Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare."
— japanese proverb

"It is the first vision that counts. The artist has only to remain true to his dream and it will possess his work in such a manner that it will resemble the work of no other... for no two visions are alike, and those who reach the heights have all toiled up steep mountains by a different route. To each has been revealed a different panorama. "
— Albert Pinkham Ryder

"It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness."
— Loren Eiseley

"Just as you can pick out the voice of a loved one in the tumult of a noisy room, or spot your child's smile in a sea of faces, intimate connection allows recognition in an all-too-often anonymous world. This sense of connection arises from a special kind of discrimination, a search image that comes from a long time spent looking and listening. Intimacy gives us a different way of seeing, when visual acuity is not enough."
— Robin Wall Kimmerer (Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses)

"Between takeoff and landing, we are each in suspended animation, a pause between chapters of our lives. When we stare out the window into the sun's glare, the landscape is only a flat projection with mountain ranges reduced to wrinkles in the continental skin. Oblivious to our passage overhead, other stories are unfolding beneath us. Blackberries ripen in the August sun, a woman packs a suitcase and hesitates at her doorway, a letter is opened and the most surprising photograph slides from between the pages. But we are moving too fast and we are too far away; all the stories escape us, except our own. When I turn away from the window, the stories recede into the two-dimensional map of green and brown below. Like a trout disappearing into the shade of an overhanging bank, leaving you staring at the flat surface of the water and wondering if you saw it at all."
— Robin Wall Kimmerer (Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses)

""Without a vision, the people perish.""
— Proverbs 29:18

"選擇放下，就能活在當下"
— 賴淑惠

"Not all dreamers are winners, but all winners are dreamers. Your dream is the key to your future. The Bible says that, "without a vision (dream), a people perish." You need a dream, if you're going to succeed in anything you do."
— Mark Gorman

"The more boundless your vision, the more real you are."
— Deepak Chopra (Life After Death: The Burden of Proof)

"The duty of the right eye is to plunge into the telescope, whereas the left eye interrogates the microscope"
— Leonora Carrington

"Nothing ages so quickly as yesterday's vision of the future."
— Richard Corliss

"The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope.
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— Leonora Carrington

""Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.""
— japanese proverb