Vision
205 quotes: 23 by Keith Craft, 182 from other voices.
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- If you can imagine it, you can possess it. If you can dream it, you can become it. If you can envision it, you can attain it. If you can picture it, you can achieve it.
- If you can see yourself doing something, you can do it. If you can’t see yourself doing it, usually you can’t achieve it.
- If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy.
- If you limit your goals to what you know you can achieve, you are setting the bar way too low.
- If you see it in your mind, you will hold it in your hand.
- If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
- If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination, and bid him conquer.
- If your vision doesn't scare you, then both your vision and your God are too small.
- I'm no genius. I'm not at all; I just happen to look five or 10 years ahead and think things through.
- Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
- In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow; the more a man expands, the larger his aims.
- In every ship there must be a seeing pilot, not a mere hearing one.
- In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell.
- In the long run men hit only what they aim at.
- Innovators are the ones whose dreams are clearer than the reality that tells them they’re crazy.
- Instead of running from what you don't want, walk with commitment toward what you desire. Focus on where you are going rather than being obsessed with where you have been.
- It doesn’t matter where you are, you are nowhere compared to where you can go.
- It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
- It is but a base, ignoble mind that mounts no higher than a bird can soar.
- It is easy to see, hard to foresee.
- It is not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success.
- It’s not enough to have values without vision; you want to be good, but you want to be good for something.
- Keep before your mind’s eye the image of all you want to be and you will see it reflected in the world without.
- Keep only the goal before your mind’s eye—and you'll win it!
- Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.
- Knowing where you’re going is the first step to get there.
- Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem.
- Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
- Leaders don’t force people to follow – they invite them on a journey.
- Leadership is not only having a vision, but also having the courage, the discipline, and the resources to get you there.
- Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
- Leadership requires two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate it.
- Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass.
- Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood...Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.
- Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.
- Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit.
- Most people spend more time planning a party, studying the newspaper, or making a Christmas list than they do in planning their own lives.
- Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.
- No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
- No wind favors he who has no destined port.