#vision

Not all dreamers are winners, but all winners are dreamers. Your dream is the key to your future. The Bible says that, "without a vision (dream), a people perish." You need a dream, if you're going to succeed in anything you do. ↗

— Mark Gorman

#dream #future #goals #god #mark-gorman

In great deeds, something abides. On great fields, something stays. Forms change and pass; bodies disappear; but spirits linger, to consecrate ground for the vision-place of souls… generations that know us not and that we know not of, heart-drawn to see where and by whom great things were suffered and done for them, shall come to this deathless field, to ponder and dream; and lo! the shadow of a mighty presence shall wrap them in its bosom, and the power of the vision pass into their souls. ↗

— Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

#visions #war #change

A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest. If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a vision, or a memory, which are involuntary, you're not interested or even involved. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#jack-kerouac #memory #vision #writer #writing

Author points out in Woodrow Wilson the flipside of the positive we might call big picture vision. He observes that as college president Wilson resorted to the language of a national crusade when he met resistance in a local, academic issue. ↗

— David Pietrusza

#leadership #perspective #vision #leadership

Often she dreamt she had two wings, and one was frightened, and one was happy. ↗

— Erin Bow

#dream-images #premonition #visions #dreams

In every problem there is a lesson to learn, an asset to acquire, a rest to restore, a bitterness to sweeten, a load to lighten or a price to pay. ↗

— Ikechukwu Joseph

#create-vision #destiny #develop-talents #dreams #ideas

You may pray to God to remove the hills on your way and fill every pothole on your path; but don’t be surprised if God gives you a shovel to do so! ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#dream #hills #israelmore-ayivor #pothole #pray-god

Without action, a vision is just a piece of paper. In education, we have lots of paper. ↗

— William Sterrett

#leadership #paper #vision #education

A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#images #mass-media #reflection #symbols #television

Television has greater power over the lives of most Americans than any educational system, government, or church. ↗

— Kent Hughes

#education