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Vision Quotes

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Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

– Joel Barker

Without some kind of personal vision, you have no direction. You follow the herd, and you may not find out until it’s too late that the herd is leading you right off a cliff.

– Don Hutcheson

Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

VISIONING: If you clearly and vividly IMAGINE yourself in the first person doing, being, having the things and qualities you truly want … then you will be using positive imagination to begin a change to fulfilling that image.

Vision without action is meaningless.

Vision without Action is a Daydream. Action without Vision is a Nightmare.

– Japanese proverb

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Vision animates, inspirits, transforms purpose into action.

– Warren Bennis

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

– Edgar Allan Poe

The view from the top gazes upon new horizons.

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It’s got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion.

– Theodore Hesburgh

The soul cannot think without a picture.

The power of the VISUAL: Consider the safety instructions sheet found on every airplane. This serves as a excellent example of the power of the visual over the written. Why? Overcomes language barriers, catches your attention, more info in shorter amount of time, get a “gestalt” viewpoint, easier to remember. Use VISUALS to capture the attention and retention of YOUR audiences.

The motivating team leader is that one person with a dream for the future.

– Lewis Losoncy

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

– Eleanor Roosevelt

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

The first basic ingredient of leadership is a guiding vision. The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do – professionally and personally – and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.

– Warren Bennis

Strength is derived from unity. The range of our collective vision is far greater when individual insights become one.

PRACTICE does NOT make perfect. However, actual practice combined with the practice of perfection in your imagination can lead to perfection.

One person with a dream becomes a majority in any size group.

– Lewis Losoncy

Nothing much happens without a dream. For something really great to happen, it takes a really great dream.

– Robert Greenleaf

No one can predict to what heights you can soar. Even you will not know until you spread your wings.

No dream is too old to redeem.

– Sharon Williams

Never make the mistake of limiting the visions of your future by the narrow experience of your past.

– Lewis Losoncy

Leaders are responsible for the creation of a vision, and the vision provides the basic energy source for moving the organization towards the future.

– Tichy and Devanna

It’s okay to lose sight of the shore as long as you don’t lose sight of the inner course.

It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.

If you can’t imagine it, you can never do it. In my experience, the image always precedes the reality.

– Marilyn King

If you can dream it, you can do it.

– Walt Disney

I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp in-focus PICTURE of it in my head.

– Jack Nicklaus