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Culture is more important than vision. Some leaders have great vision, but have created a toxic culture where that vision will never happen.
Oct 2, 2025
Great vision communication usually means heartfelt messages are coming from real human beings.
You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.
He's got great vision. If he can get outside, he can take it all the way. That's what we were worried about.
He has a great pass, great vision, great shot, great everything.
The woman's vision is deep-reaching, the man's far-reaching.
We, the people of the United States, we are a great Nation with a great vision.
Great vision without great people is irrelevant.
Mass badly celebrated is an enormous evil. Ah! it is not a matter of indifference how it is said! . . . I have had a great vision on the mystery of Holy Mass and I have seen that whatever good has existed since creation is owing to it.
What Smith and Marx have in common is that they were both philosophers of great vision and perceptiveness, deep humanity, and a sense of social reality that has been lost in the abstractly formalistic economic theories that have dominated the field since the last third of the nineteenth century.
Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.
Take the limits off of yourself. You will never rise higher than your thinking. Create a great vision for your life.
Great visions are cast one on one.
The only limits are, as always, those of vision.
In order to succeed we need leaders of inspired idealism, leaders to whom are granted great visions, who dream greatly and strive to make their dreams come true; who can kindle the people with the fire from their own burning souls. The leader for the time being, whoever he may be, is but an instrument, to be used until broken and then to be cast aside; and if he is worth his salt he will care no more when he is broken than a soldier cares when he is sent where his life is forfeit in order that the victory may be won.
The truly beautiful are often abused for apparent ugliness just as those with great vision often bump into things.
A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.
Be yourself. Hillary Clinton, you have a great vision for our country. You know the policy, you have good judgment that springs from that. You're a strategic thinker, and you have a connection with the American people that springs from a lifetime of service and leadership to them, to America's working families. So, just go talk about that. Forget the script, forget everything else. Just be Hillary Clinton. Be yourself.
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.
Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.
The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
My father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision.
[Seeds Are Small.] Becoming a force of nature doesn't mean that all of our aspirations must be "grand." First steps are often small, and initial visions that focus energy effectively often address immediate problems. What matters is engagement in the service of a larger purpose rather than lofty aspirations that paralyze action. Indeed, it's a dangerous trap to believe that we can pursue onlhy "great visions."
The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
King Fahd was a man of great vision and leadership who inspired his countrymen for a quarter of a century as king. He led Saudi Arabia through a period of unparalleled progress and development.
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. The public does not fully understand the world into which it is going. Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision. Those leaders who do not are ultimately judged failures, even though they may be popular at the moment.
All successful people, men and women, are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Vision with action can change the world.
You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.
Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Until he [man] has become fully human, until he learns to conduct himself as a member of the earth, he will continue to create gods who will destroy him. The tragedy of Greece lies not in the destruction of a great culture but in the abortion of a great vision.
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.