Quotes about Vision

The thing that’s so exciting about filmmaking is that you can create something out of nothing and make it into something that has a profound impact on people’s lives.

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world.

"You have to be a little bit crazy to do great things."

If you wait until you're ready, you'll be waiting for the rest of your life.

It’s hard work making movies. It’s like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it’s emotional, tense work.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

I’m not much of a hardware person. I’ve always been interested in more of the relationships and the storytelling.

A true leader has the vision to see beyond the horizon.

I think the most important thing to do is to become aware that you're a machine. You are a robot in a sense. You're a machine that can think, but you're also a machine that can be programmed.

I've been working in a lot of different genres for quite a while, and I think that one of the things that has kept me going and kept me interested is the ability to challenge myself in new ways.

It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

The moon, like a flower in heaven's high bower, with silent delight, sits and smiles on the night.

The most important thing is to have a vision and go for it.

A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.

Every time you dive, you hope you'll see something new - some new species. Sometimes the ocean gives you a gift, sometimes it doesn't.

I love it when I have a nightmare. That means I got my money's worth out of my imagination.

I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.

The deeper you go, the more secrets you find.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

Filmmaking is an art form that requires a lot of passion, dedication, and hard work.

To be and stay a great musician, you've got to always be open to what's new, what's happening at the moment.

Filmmaking is a collaborative process that requires a lot of hard work and dedication from everyone involved.

Every night and every morn some to misery are born. Every morn and every night some are born to sweet delight.

I think the value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question.

I always like to think of the audience when I'm directing, to try to think of how they're going to respond to the film.

Visionary leaders see beyond the present.

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.

When one door closes, another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

I’ve always been interested in how to take a two-dimensional image and make it three-dimensional, and how to take that three-dimensional image and put it back onto a two-dimensional plane.

You have to be able to design in a way that is timeless.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

Without vision, people perish, and without courage, dreams die.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

A vision without action is a dream; action without vision is a nightmare.

Vision is the lens through which we see the possibilities of the future.

You've got to make your team have value, innovation, and vision.

When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.

I see the past, present and future existing all at once before me.

You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.

"I love history, so while writing a futuristic story, I tried to pick out the good things and the things that were shocking about our past and project them into the future."

The only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.

The moon, like a flower in heaven's high bower, with silent delight, sits and smiles on the night."