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The thing is, I think as a director or a writer or whatever, you have to have a vision. And you have to be maybe sometimes too early, somewhere.
Medals are decided by hundredths of a second, so I need assurance that my vision is perfect every time I compete, no matter what the conditions.
Our sanity depends essentially on a narrowness of vision--the ability to select the elements vital to survival, while ignoring the great truths.
The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become.
The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else.
Once I have a vision of something I want to accomplish, I tend to slog doggedly toward my goal until I achieve it; this is a skill from my youth.
My dad and mom used to always say, 'Write your vision down. Write the things that you want to happen.' I would write, 'I want to make soul cool.'
As a leader, your job is to share your vision with your followers and either warn them of danger or highlight opportunities coming in the future.
At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different
When you are surrounded by four people, one of them smiling, taunting, demanding, terrorizing, you don't have a complete grasp or perfect vision.
The real radical is that person who has a vision of equality and is willing to do those things that will bring reality closer to that vision. . .
Hong Kong represents the kind of Asia with which both West and East are comfortable... It offers, in that sense, a vision for the future of Asia.
With 'Mask,' 'Smooth Talk' and 'Blue Velvet,' I loved the specific experiences so much. Each one was a specific filmmaker with a specific vision.
The belief in the inevitability of war is a self-fulfilling prophecy... We need an alternative vision, to see the world as one, as interconnected.
Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within the range of our intellectual ray.
Frank Miller is more of a visionary than any director I've ever worked with, and he achieves that vision better than anyone I've ever worked with.
A good character today is shaped by greatness, greatness in vision, greatness in courage, greatness in insight, greatness in purpose and devotion.
Vision and the ability to mobilize and inspire people at the grassroots. That's what the most important criteria is going to be for any DNC chair.
I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.
But we have to understand why we do what we do, not just do what we do. Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
I have this vision that I'm really watching each one of my daughters start to become women, and mothers. And this is what's gonna save our planet.
Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for - because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.
The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.
As I celebrated what was right with the world, I began to build a vision of possibility, not scarcity. Possibility... always another right answer.
I'm a man of history. My vision is guiding me, my clear vision. It is not by chance that the currents of peace are increasing daily inside Israel.
Football, like no other sport, creates a sense of unity, equality, and inclusion. All of these are at the heart of my vision for a changing Gabon.
The first thing you do is teach the person to feel that the vision is very important and nearly impossible. That draws out the drive in the winner.
At stake are two different visions of faith, the Church of Caesar, powerful and rich; and the Church of Christ - loving, poor and spiritually rich.
You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day, but it is the life of every day from which the elements of a better life must come.
The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. They came up with comprehensive plans and visions.
Spontaneity is not enough - or, to be more exact, spontaneity is not possible until there is an unconscious coordination of form, space and vision.
What this denomination stands for is, really, is the universal vision of all people being treated fairly under the law as God sees us in His sight.
The surrealism of my pictures was nothing but the real made eerie by vision. I was trying to express reality, for there is nothing more surrealist.
Great people have a vision of their lives that they practice emulating each and every day. They go to work on their lives, not just in their lives.
It is not enough to have a vision. In order to have its power, you must enact your vision on earth for all to see. Only then do you have the power.
When you have a vision, you have to see it through, and you can make anything happen. You really can, especially in this [entertainment ] industry.
That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision.
If we see an object as a bowl, it may inhibit seeing it as craft, just as seeing it as craft might inhibit seeing it as art. See first; name later.
Hesitating to act because the whole vision might not be achieved, or because others do not yet share it, is an attitude that only hinders progress.
[Photography] remains servile to a thoughtless vision of the world... As the term snapshot suggests, photography seizes the moment and exhibits it.
The Lord chose Joseph Smith, called upon him at fourteen years of age, gave him vision, and led him along, guided and directed him in his obscurity.
Beside some philosophers of larger vision, Carlyle stands like an honest, half-despairing boy, grasping at some details only of their world systems.
The notion of democracy beginning to emerge scares the ideologues, the totalitarians, those who want to impose their vision. It just frightens them.
I think there's real value in having a founder CEO. Obviously, I'm biased, but I'm driven by a purpose and a mission and a vision, not just profits.
APA is another evolution in my career; they have unique vision and share my goals for the future. I look forward to expanding our horizons together.
I was a little lacking in vision as mayor - I failed to understand the significance that housing and the revitalization of housing means for a city.
One consequence of this is that people are expected to make it on their own by chasing clicks or building a brand. What a diminished vision that is.
Protect your vision. Prevail over adversity. Persevere in the midst of turmoil. Passionately act upon your convictions. Purposely walk into the day.
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.
Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves.