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If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.
Sep 30, 2025
To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.
To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership-not only on the movie set where I learned it, but everywhere.
You can't do it unless you can imagine it.
Get somebody else for Jesus Christ and you will get a new vision of life, a new vision of what it means.
The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life.
It is very dangerous to go into eternity with possibilities which one has oneself prevented from becoming realities. A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it.
Train the body and develop stamina and endurance. But the spirit of competition and power that presides over them is not good, it reflects a distorted vision of life. The root of the martial arts is not there.
If feminism has receded in visibility and prestige, it is precisely because its vision of life's goals and rewards has become too narrow and elitist.
Looking up gives light, although at first it makes you dizzy.
I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.
I wanted to be a pariah, because all my heroes were cult artists, people who devoted their lives to poking into very narrow, very deep corners - Erik Satie, Alfred Jarry, Malcolm Lowry - people who suffered in order to express their vision of life.
I have a tremendous faith in the possibilities of man, which have shown in his past, and I believe if we avoid war, we shall be able to revive our real vision of life, but that we must see it, and therefore, that we must be critical to where we are.
A different language is a different vision of life.
To some,Islam is nothing but a code of rules and regulations.But,to those who understand,it is a perfect vision of life
We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - your ideal of what you long to attain - the ideal of health, efficiency, success.
When every minute of your day is planned & you are packed for days, you shall soon realize that the pain of past fades, vision of life gets clearer and all that seemed to poison your life Ceases to exist.
Catholic education aims not only to communicate facts but also to transmit a coherent, comprehensive vision of life, in the conviction that the truths contained in that vision liberate students in the most profound meaning of human freedom.
Making your unknown known is the important thing - and keeping the unknown always beyond you - catching - crystalizing your simpler clearer vision of life - only to see it turn stale compared to what you vaguely feel ahead - that you must always keep working to grasp.
Nothing stops an organization faster than people who believe that the way you worked yesterday is the best way to work tomorrow.
In order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.
I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.
As an artist I have always tried to be faithful to my vision of life, and I have frequently been in conflict with those who wanted me to paint not what I saw but what they wished me to see.
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.
The dreamers of the day are dangerous... for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.
In the long run men hit only what they aim at.
You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.
Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.