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Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.
The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.
Art should never be sociological; it has got to be timeless. It's got to be your vision and how you can represent the world you see.
It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.
Change the fabric of your own soul and your own visions, and you change all.
Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.
A terrible depression yesterday. Visions of my life petering out into a kind of soft-brained stupor from lack of use.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.
Movie makers now choose profit over vision.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
The strength and clarity of your vision will lift you out of the depth of any hardship.
Believe in yourself and have confidence that you can compete against all odds. Have a vision of what you'd like to accomplish and be able to articulate that vision.
She often had to remind herself that she couldn't do everything alone. She wasn't always the best person for the job. Sometimes she got tunnel vision and forgot about what other people needed.
A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.
I'm optimistic that we are actually seeing the opportunity of a generation being created in this.
It takes visions and courage to create. It takes faith and courage to prove.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
Few lack talent, but most people lack the vision and perseverance to develop their talents.
To come from no voice, no power, and to be able to achieve what I have means that only my own personal vision holds me back.
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution.
Leaders shape our visions of the possible and direct our energies toward it.
I was able to see what I wanted to do, I could see the opportunity, even when others could not, and I stay committed to doing it and doing it well, no matter what.
Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.
We're also confident that gamers are going to love our vision of the future.
Our vision is more obstructed by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge.
The ageless melody, unheard, heals; the healing vision, unseen, leads; the true leaders, immortal, know...
Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.
Pessimistic visions about almost anything always strike the public as more erudite than optimistic ones
A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.
We've been seeing some good things from Randy. We're starting to see that Randy Johnson attitude that we've been looking forward to seeing.
At the beginning, all we have is the vision. At that point God expects us to begin walking in obedience according to the dream He has given us.
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule.
[There is no shortage of scientific talent.] But [I am] much less optimistic about the managerial vision [of the pharmaceutical industry] to catalyse these talents to deliver the results we all want.
Seek what you know as the highest. It does not matter whether it is going to happen or not - living with a vision itself is a very elevating process.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.
I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.
Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.
The world is for those who make their dreams come true.
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.
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