Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion.
—Dorothea Brande (1893–1948) American Writer, Editor
As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
—William Blake (1757–1827) English Poet, Painter, Printmaker
Prophecy today is hardly the romantic business that it used to be. The old tools of the trade, like the sword, the hair shirt, and the long fast in the wilderness, have given way to more contemporary, mundane instruments of doom—the book, the picket and the petition, the sit-in at City Hall.
—Jane Kramer (b.1938) American Journalist
With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–99) German Philosopher, Physicist
Hitch your wagon to a star. Let us not fag in paltry works which serve our pot and bag alone.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
Capital isn’t scarce; vision is.
—Sam Walton (1918–92) American Entrepreneur, Businessperson
Its marvelous what you can see when you open your eyes.
—Unknown
Salvation of the Dawn
Look to this day,
For it is life,
The very life of life.
In its brief course lie all the truths
And realities of your existence;
The bliss of growth
The glory of action, and
The splendor of beauty;
For yesterday is but a dream
And tomorrow is only a vision,
But today well lived makes
Every yesterday a dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore, to this day.
Such is the salvation of the dawn.
—The Bhagavad Gita Hindu Scripture
Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.
—Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007) French Sociologist, Philosopher
The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.
—Orison Swett Marden (1850–1924) American New Thought Writer, Physician, Entrepreneur
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
—The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith
The obscure we see eventually, the completely apparent takes longer.
—Edward R. Murrow (1908–65) American Broadcast Journalist
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
—Niels Bohr (1885–1962) Danish Physicist
For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn’t you reach out for something big?
—Charles L. Allen (1913–2005) American Methodist Minister
Three levels of organizational vision: 1. The Do-able 2. The Conceivable 3. The Previously Unthinkable.
—Indian Proverb
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.
—Charles M. Schwab (1862–1939) American Businessperson
Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.
—Marquis de Sade (1740–1814) French Writer
You don’t need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles—events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.
—Harry Browne (1933–2006) American Author, Economist, Politician
The man with vision always goes ahead of the man with visions.
—Unknown
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
—Ralph Vaull Starr
The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
—Joel A. Barker
Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
—Ayn Rand (1905–82) Russian-born American Novelist, Philosopher
I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish Historian, Essayist
Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come to pass if men do not act and if nothing unexpected happens; every action, for better or worse, and every accident necessarily destroys the whole pattern in whose frame the prediction moves and where it finds its evidence.
—Hannah Arendt (1906–75) German-American Philosopher, Political Theorist
You have to see the pattern, understand the order and experience the vision.
—Michael E. Gerber
Beware of the ides of March.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948) Indian Hindu Political leader
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it,—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–94) American Physician, Essayist
A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without a vision is drudgery. A vision with a task is the hope of the world.
—Unknown
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