Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
Ovid

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
Thomas Hardy

I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
Toni Morrison

I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul.
Anne Rice

I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see.
Black Elk

Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body; but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me.
Black Elk

But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it; for I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good; and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all.
Black Elk

And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.
Black Elk

You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.
Black Elk

I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.
Black Elk

To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the people to see.
Black Elk

I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.
Henri Matisse

Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision.
John Naisbitt

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
Henry A. Kissinger

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.
Henry A. Kissinger

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.
Henry A. Kissinger

For me it's all about personal vision; is there something about a subject that uniquely speaks to me.
Leonard Nimoy

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
Edith Wharton

I've been blessed to find people who are smarter than I am, and they help me to execute the vision I have.
Russell Simmons

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.
Karl Kraus