Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats. —Howard H. Aiken More about this quote Tags: ideas vision innovation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don’t do it. Don’t go to that job you hate. Do something you love today. Ride a roller coaster. Swim in the ocean. Go to the airport and get on the next flight to anywhere just for the fun of it. Maybe stop a spinning globe with your finger and then plan a trip to that very spot; even if it’s in the middle of the ocean you can go by boat. Eat some type of ethnic food you’ve never even heard of. Stop a stranger and ask her to explain her greatest fears and her secret hopes and aspirations in detail and then tell her you care because she is a human being. Sit down on the sidewalk and make pictures with colorful chalk. Close your eyes and try to see the world with your nose—allow smells to be your vision. Catch up on your sleep. Call an old friend you haven’t seen in years. Roll up your pant legs and walk into the sea. See a foreign film. Feed squirrels. Do anything! Something! Because you start a revolution one decision at a time, with each breath you take. Just don’t go back to that miserable place you go every day. —Matthew Quick in Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock More about this quote Tags: life power purpose accomplishment vision change work revolution Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Many of us have no long-range vision in much of our struggle. We think only of the moment, this time, this place, this circumstance. But think of the ten generations of children that inherit love, and their children, and theirs. … Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed? —Stephen Covey More about this quote Tags: love time future vision children struggle place Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle. —George Orwell More about this quote Tags: knowledge perception vision struggle bias Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In forming a bridge between body and mind, dreams may be used as a springboard from which man can leap to new realms of experience lying outside his normal state of consciousness and enlarge his vision not only of himself, but also of the universe in which he lives. —Ann Faraday More about this quote Tags: mind vision experience dreams universe body consciousness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We see achievement as purposeful and monolithic, like the sculpting of a massive tree trunk that has first to be brought from the forest and then shaped by long labor to assert the artist's vision, rather than something crafted from odds and ends, like a patchwork quilt, and lovingly used to warm different nights and bodies. —Mary Catherine Bateson More about this quote Tags: purpose vision art work achievement Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block. —Annie Dillard More about this quote Tags: success vision aim Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. —Isaac Bashevis Singer More about this quote Tags: vision experience creation art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. —Honoré de Balzac More about this quote Tags: vision art painting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Imagination is the eye of the soul. —Joseph Joubert More about this quote Tags: imagination vision soul Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: imagination vision art seeing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs. —Malcolm de Chazal More about this quote Tags: vision art smiling laughing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Vision is the true creative rhythm. —Robert Delaunay More about this quote Tags: vision creativity rhythm Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny. —Georges Braque More about this quote Tags: acceptance vision destiny Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In the long history of man, countless empires and nations have come and gone. Those which created no lasting works of art are reduced today to short footnotes in history's catalog. Art is a nation's most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves, and to others, the inner vision which guides us as a Nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish. We in America have not always been kind to the artists and the scholars who are the creators and the keepers of our vision. Somehow, the scientists always seem to get the penthouse, while the arts and the humanities get the basement. —Lyndon B. Johnson More about this quote Tags: history vision art heritage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email