We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain. – Liberty Hyde Bailey
While we women dilly-dally, making decisions, leaving jobs half done, forgetting where we’ve put the house keys while we water the Hoover and leave the laundry in the dishwasher, men, like blinkered horses, look straight ahead, oblivious to peripheral vision, where a discarded pile of wet towels might have caught their eye. – Mariella Frostrup
President Obama’s view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to return entrepreneurship and genius and creativity to the American people! – Mitt Romney
In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum. – Joseph de Maistre
When you go into projects, you can’t look at it as limited; you have to dive into it wholeheartedly to be true to the writer’s vision. – Jolene Purdy
I had thirty weeks of prep on ‘Captain America.’ I have a small team of qualified, supportive, creative producers who are actually helping me achieve my vision of the film. I had a dream cast headed by Chris Evans. I had the best designers, artists, sculptors, craftspeople. – Joe Johnston
Film is a very collaborative medium. If you’re smart enough, you learn how to maintain your vision while drawing resourcefully from all the people around you. – Lawrence Bender
I do not want to be president because I am a woman. Being a woman is important, but it’s not the most important. I want to be president because we have the talent and the platform and the vision of a Mexico that we want for all Mexicans, not only for a select few. – Josefina Vazquez Mota
It was interesting to find how dominating American vision is all over the world. I think there’s something to be said about the world’s mindset and its economics and all of that, and I think it affects the way we see ourselves and it affects music. – K’naan
With ‘Mask,’ ‘Smooth Talk’ and ‘Blue Velvet,’ I loved the specific experiences so much. Each one was a specific filmmaker with a specific vision. – Laura Dern
Most people have stereo vision, so why belittle that very, very important element of our existence? – Martin Scorsese
Axilor Ventures helps startups to improve their odds of success, and I look forward to supporting the executive management of Axilor with this vision. – Kris Gopalakrishnan
I have a great team who has helped me build Biocon, I was very fortunate to be able to share my vision with a group of people who really were as excited about challenges as I was. – Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
But nevertheless, it’s music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching out to the world. – John Eaton
I just prefer instrumental. I don’t need to hear what other people are singing. And if I need music as a backdrop to work or to think, I need to have that part of the brain clear – I don’t need people feeding their fantasies into my vision. – Lydia Lunch
I just kind of do my thing with sort of tunnel vision for the story and my role and how it fits together. – Lin Shaye
FreshWorld is in line with my vision of supporting sustainable technologies in solving problems. I feel this is the next-level disruption in the fruits and vegetables industry. – Kris Gopalakrishnan
Whatever causes you to drop your plan forward and open to your vision, your own, deeply personal vision of what your life could be at its very best, that’s what I call meeting your rhinoceros. – Martha Beck
I have a very clear vision, and I come from film, where director is God, so if there’s a clash, it’s painful. – Lee Daniels
Some of my Democratic friends don’t like it when I say that, but Ronald Reagan was once a Democrat and still a leader. He brought strong people around him, and he had a vision for where he wanted to take the country. – Jim Webb
The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is largely due to the extraordinary diligence of the Nobel committees. – Kenneth G. Wilson
I think the vision for FOX is to have a network full of people who have opinions as opposed to people who say news. If my message doesn’t fit in, but I get that platform, then I’m reaching the people who most need to hear it. – Katie Nolan
I like vampires, tuberculosis, anything to do with blood. Then I read a biography of Rasputin and found out he’d had this daughter who had become a famous lion tamer and been billed as the daughter of the mad monk who was able to hypnotize animals with her eyes. It gave me a vision. – Kathryn Harrison
Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you’ve gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them. – Mel Brooks
There have been situations where the people you’re around have one vision for you, and it’s like trying on a jacket that doesn’t fit. – Keri Hilson
It’s a time to reflect and appreciate all the contributions that others have made to my career and my life. My vision is nothing that hasn’t been gleaned or understood from watching and working with so many people I admire before me. – Karen Kain
Ronald Reagan came in – he was a leader. Some of my Democratic friends don’t like it when I say that. He had a vision where he wanted to take the country, and things started moving again. – Jim Webb
It’s that one thing that you’re passionate about, that you end up developing tunnel vision for and everything else tends to fall by the wayside. Passion is appealing and universal. – Johnny Galecki