Favorite Quotations
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Vision
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No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking. ~ Ruth Benedict When a finger points at the moon, the imbecile looks at the finger. ~ Confucius Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed. ~ Blaise Pascal Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. ~ Jonathan Swift Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again. ~ Beatrix Potter Seeing is not always believing. ~ Rod Serling It might be good to open our eyes and see. ~ Thomas Merton At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist. ~ Ugo Betti It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born. ~ James Augustine This it the greatest success I can dream of for my life: to have spread a new vision of the world. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin The difference between living and half living is seeing well, looking for associations between things, seeking the connections, being aware of scale and proportion. ~ Alexandra Stoddard, Open Your Eyes
"There's a lot of ignorance in our business... Everybody's an authority. To have your own vision is rewarding." ~ Robert Duvall