You have to think big to be big.
—Claude M. Bristol (1891–1951) American Journalist, Self-Help Author
Three levels of organizational vision: 1. The Do-able 2. The Conceivable 3. The Previously Unthinkable.
—Indian Proverb
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
Better to aim at a star than shoot down a well; you’ll hit higher.
—Unknown
Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.
—Robertson Davies (1913–95) Canadian Novelist, Playwright, Essayist
When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.
—William Blake (1757–1827) English Poet, Painter, Printmaker
Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion.
—Dorothea Brande (1892–1948) American Writer, Editor
When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.
—Chuck Swindoll (b.1934) American Evangelical Christian Pastor, Author
Capital isn’t scarce; vision is.
—Sam Walton (1918–92) American Entrepreneur, Businessperson
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
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
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
If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
—Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish Painter, Sculptor, Artist
We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
—Orison Swett Marden (1850–1924) American New Thought Writer, Physician, Entrepreneur
There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–99) German Philosopher, Physicist
When it comes to spotting a blonde hair on a man’s coat, every wife has 20-20 vision.
—Unknown
Prophecy: The art and practice of selling one’s credibility for future delivery.
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1913) American Short-story Writer, Journalist
Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
—Adlai Stevenson (1900–65) American Diplomat, Politician, Orator
He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say. He is impelled by inertia, rather than curiosity, and nothing is more unlike the submissive apathy with which he hears his fate revealed than the alert dexterity with which the man of courage lays hands on the future.
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) German Literary and Marxist Critic
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–82) American Poet, Educator, Academic
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
The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.
—Eric Hoffer (1902–83) American Philosopher, Author
Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.
—Neil Armstrong (1930–2012) American Astronaut
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
As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
—William Blake (1757–1827) English Poet, Painter, Printmaker
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, Inspirational Author
Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
—Umberto Eco (1932–2016) Italian Novelist
Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing…
—Robert Collier (1885–1950) American Self-Help Author
The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English Humanist, Pacifist, Satirist, Short Story Writer
The obscure we see eventually, the completely apparent takes longer.
—Edward R. Murrow (1908–65) American Broadcast Journalist
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