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Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams? -- Tim Burton
Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don't change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan. -- John C. Maxwell
Visions of glory, spare my aching sight. -- Thomas Gray
Visions possess greater significance than just entertainment! Visions have power. -- Phil Pringle
Visions from the gods are gifts alone for those who wander. -- Roman Payne
Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul! -- Thomas Gray
Visions of swastikas in my head, plans for everyone. It's in the Whites of my eyes. -- David Bowie
Visions of one powerful scene after another parade across his inner screen, each exploding with drama and meaning -- Robert Ludlum
Love is all I can possess and no one can deprive me of it. Kahlil Gibran (Visions of the Prophet) -- Khalil Gibran
A terrible depression yesterday. Visions of my life petering out into a kind of soft-brained stupor from lack of use. -- Sylvia Plath
Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! gone down the American river! Dreams! adorations! illumnations! religions! the whole boatload of sensitive bullshit! -- Allen Ginsberg
Visions of McDonald's restaurants dotting crossroads all over the country paraded through my brain. I don't believe in saturation. We're thinking and talking worldwide. -- Ray Kroc
In the meantime [1965-67], [Bob] Dylan was again writing some of the best love songs in the genre, like "Visions of Johanna," "Just Like a Woman," and "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands." -- Bob Dylan
When a plan or strategy fails, people are tempted to assume it was the wrong vision. Plans and strategies can always be changed and improved. But vision doesn't change. Visions are simply refined with time. -- Andy Stanley
Now I'm on the rise, doin' business with my guys. Visions realize, music [your craft] affected lives. A gift from the skies, to be recognized, I'm keeping my eye on the people, that's the prize -- Common
I think Visions of Cody is the most radical book in terms of poetic stretch and the way Jack Kerouac is able to incorporate documentation and incorporate the live tape recording of Neal and so on. -- Anne Waldman
Truth brings light, light refracts off the mirror, Visions of yourself and error could never be clearer. The truth is that you ugly... Not on the outside, but in the inside; On the outside, you frontin' you lovely. -- Pharoahe Monch
Nothing is lost that we do not first see as lost. Visions born of fear give birth to our failing. Visions born of hope give birth to our success. What is possible lives within us, and it only remains for us to discover it. -- Terry Brooks
There is a peculiar aesthetic pleasure in constructing the form of a syllabus, or a book of essays, or a course of lectures. Visions and shadows of people and ideas can be arranged and rearranged like stained-glass pieces in a window, or chessmen on a board. -- A. S. Byatt
Our visions begin with our desires. -- Audre Lorde
It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams. -- Zora Neale Hurston
I think a fragrance is all about sensations and imagery, and can evoke visions, feelings and thoughts. -- Shakira
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. -- Napoleon Hill
The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires. -- Khalil Gibran
One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring. -- Thomas Sowell
The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. They came up with comprehensive plans and visions. -- Ron Chernow
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
Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood. -- James Henry Breasted
The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited. -- Neil Armstrong
It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously. -- H. L. Mencken
There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited. -- C. Wright Mills
Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of reforming Nigeria, and the search for solutions. -- Ibrahim Babangida
I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death. -- Courtney Love
My mother, who was radiant, young, and beautiful even as she lay dying, heard voices and saw visions, but she always managed to make friends with them and was much too charming to hospitalize even at her craziest. -- Mark Vonnegut
The Book of Revelation is the strangest book in the Bible, and the most controversial. Instead of stories and moral teaching, it offers only visions - dreams and nightmares, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, earthquakes, plagues and war. -- Elaine Pagels
Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors - the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the night by the Great Spirit; and the visions of our sachems, and is written in the hearts of our people. -- Chief Seattle
Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul. -- Victoria Woodhull
Throughout the ages, Christians have adapted John of Patmos's visions to changing times, reading their own social, political and religious conflicts into the cosmic war he so powerfully evokes. Yet his Book of Revelation appeals not only to fear and desires for vengeance but also to hope. -- Elaine Pagels
We've been surrounded by images of space our whole lives, from the speculative images of science fiction to the inspirational visions of artists to the increasingly beautiful pictures made possible by complex technologies. But whilst we have an overwhelmingly vivid visual understanding of space, we have no sense of what space sounds like. -- Honor Harger
In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn't reach them no-how. I always fell before I got to the line. -- Harriet Tubman
I wasn't exposed to art as I was growing up, and can't recall the first time I saw a work of art. However, I remember very clearly a vision I had of a little green reindeer when I was a child, and visions emanate from the same mythical area where painting resides. Whatever the reason, I immediately felt comfortable working with visual materials. -- William S. Burroughs
Visionaries are limited by their visions. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The unspeakable visions of the individual. -- Jack Kerouac
I can see clearly my visions. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
For visions come not to polluted eyes. -- Mary Howitt
Contentment is better than divinations or visions. -- Walter Savage Landor
Consciousness is a sea ringed with visions. -- Oskar Kokoschka
Big visions are realized through small steps. -- Mike Glenn
Great visions are cast one on one. -- John C. Maxwell
May God inspire you to have great visions. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Old men dream dreams; young men see visions. -- Melvin B. Tolson
Young men have visions, old men have dreams. -- Red Smith
Effective visions are lived in details, not broad strokes. -- Tom Peters
Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions. -- Robert Redford
I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions. -- Man Ray
The visions we offer our children shape the future. -- Carl Sagan
I can foreseen the fulfillment of my the visions. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Goals are visions and dreams with work clothes on. -- Dave Ramsey
Others can measure their visions by what we see. -- Allen Ginsberg
People who have visions should go see a doctor. -- Helmut Schmidt
What man is really anti-progressive? For he is only anti-certain-people's-visions-for-the-future. -- Criss Jami
A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions. -- Pablo Picasso
Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance. -- Seth Godin
Inspiring visions rarely (I'm tempted to say never) include numbers. -- Tom Peters
Pencil in your plans but write your visions in ink -- Andy Stanley
Your successful past will block your visions of the future. -- Joel A. Barker
I felt dull and flat and full of shattered visions. -- Sylvia Plath
You must have courage and confidence to pursue the visions. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Revelations: A curious record of the visions of a drug addict. -- George Bernard Shaw
Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness. -- Edwin Louis Cole
When you're an actor, you're a slave to other people's visions. -- Sylvester Stallone
A goal is a written plan.Write your dreams and visions. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
We're dismal enough without conjuring up ghosts and visions to perplex us." -- Emily Bronte
The eighth gift is Imagination. May it nourish your visions and dreams. -- Charlene Costanzo
Some stories, some visions, demand celluloid film and what it can deliver. -- Kodak Eastman
Clear visions and positive goals, leads to positive actions and purposeful life. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Without visions and written goals, what direction are we going to head? -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Your shallow men shall dream, dreams, your insightful men shall see visions. -- Nikki Sixx
I don't think I have grand visions that I will never achieve. -- David Byrne
I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music. -- Herbie Hancock
When I was younger, I had big visions of changing the world. -- Rick Danko
Leaders shape our visions of the possible and direct our energies toward it. -- Marcia Whicker
Cast first to your church those visions you absolutely know are the Lord's. -- Matthew Carter
I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family. -- Nastassja Kinski
Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
Leaders are creators. They bring their visions to fruitition through the creative process. -- Phil Pringle
One day, I will be a poet. Water will depend on my visions. -- Mahmoud Darwish
Too often, shared visions really mean, "I have a vision; you share it!" -- Andy Hargreaves
Hopeful visions touch possibilities that only exist in the gaze of the faithful. -- Bryant McGill
We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds. -- Maxim Gorky
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness. -- Stendhal
You should paint those visions of paradise rather than just talking about them. -- Paulo Coelho
We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies - images of potential tomorrows. -- Alvin Toffler
In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain. -- Aeschylus
From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future. -- Miguel de Unamuno
You should have dreams, you should have visions. Never let any obstacle stop you. -- Ruth Gruber
If you fulfill the wishes of your employees, the employees will fulfill your visions. -- Amit Kalantri
The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. -- William James
Chicago is a city of contradictions, of private visions haphazardly overlaid and linked together -- Pat Colander
We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions. -- Carl Jung
It takes visions and courage to create. It takes faith and courage to prove. -- Owen D. Young
And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities. -- Edith Wharton
Today, you can take an action that will lead you closer to your visions. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims. -- Leon Krier
To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
The highest achievers in the world have all succeeded because they mapped out their visions -- Darren Hardy
We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals. -- Saul Bellow
I've always had goals, always had visions, always had a plan, always been very strategic. -- Pitbull
Pessimistic visions about almost anything always strike the public as more erudite than optimistic ones -- Joseph A. Schumpeter
Since cancer, I feel like I have dreams rather than ambitions, visions rather than plans. -- Eve Ensler
Too often our visions of the futureare dull and impotentlike a hammer beating the water. -- Harley King
I wanted to work with people from the world, with different minds and different visions. -- Juliette Binoche
Madness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels. -- William S. Burroughs
The reason conservatives cohere and radicals fight: everyone agrees about fears, no one about visions. -- Brian Eno
The ideal visions of one age eventually are seen as its excesses by the next. -- Lillian B. Rubin
Men and women do not posses visions of the future. They are possesed by them. -- Ted Bundy
I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child. -- Claude Debussy
Change the fabric of your own soul and your own visions, and you change all. -- Vachel Lindsay

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