Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired. – Martha Graham
The world’s longest-serving dictator has just stepped down and handed over power. The national project of Cuba, which was Fidel’s vision, is now finished. It’s something – a small something, but still something. – Joe Garcia
It’s not really possible to open ‘The Casual Vacancy’ without a lot of expectations both high and low crashing around in your brain and distorting your vision. There’s no point pretending they’re not there. – Lev Grossman
In ‘The General Strike,’ we celebrate those who bring a new vision for the world to the table. People who stand for workers rights, human rights, a just representative political system, and a new mode of doing business where sustainability is the norm not the exception. – Justin Sane
In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director have a vision? is the story moving? etc. – Lukas Haas
To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing. Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest. – Maria Montessori
You have to be a leader with a vision, and you have to show Iowans that you want it… and not just a woman. – Joni Ernst
I have always been a fan of ‘Star Trek.’ I love Gene Roddenberry’s vision of the future. – LeVar Burton
The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone. – Laura Bush
The fallback position in politics is if you don’t know what you want to be about, and if you don’t know what your vision is, go at somebody else. – Karl Rove
You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed. – Larry Flynt
It’s always special when you’re young and you have a vision for something you want to do, and somebody takes a moment to connect with you. Now if there are kids on the set I try to talk to them for a bit. – Jeremy Sumpter
The book that meant most to me was ‘The Wind in the Willows.’ It sounds ridiculous, but that was my vision of England. – Justin Cartwright
Every few thousand years some shepard inhales smoke from a burning bush and has a vision or eats moldy rye bread in a cave and sees God. – Kerry Thornley
Since taking office, President Obama has worked to restore a positive vision of American leadership in the world – leadership defined, not by the threats and dangers that we will oppose, but by the security, opportunity and dignity that America advances in partnership with people around the world. – John O. Brennan
When you’re doing that you lose your focus on the discipline of the business, and how you train people at Hamburger University, and everybody gets on a bigger, different vision, and they’re not on the same page. – Jim Cantalupo
As much as I enjoy seeing other guys do the superhero approach to the Batman universe, personally my own vision falls a bit left of center. – Lee Bermejo
It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis. – Luis Barragan
As an actor, you’re always at the service of somebody else’s vision. In a play, it’s more of the director’s vision, and he or she’s got their hands on you all the way up to opening night, and if it’s a film, there are even more people. – Jeff Daniels
When I want an opinion, I’ll get it from my peers – from men of vision, like our great railroad builders… Stanford, Huntington, Dinsmore… fellows with imaginations broad enough to span the continent. – Jonathan Raban
When the vision of the ‘Nude’ flashed upon me, I knew that it would break forever the enslaving chains of Naturalism. – Marcel Duchamp
Medals are decided by hundredths of a second, so I need assurance that my vision is perfect every time I compete, no matter what the conditions. – Lindsey Vonn
Democracy can tie your hands in a rock ‘n’ roll band, you know? It can be a great thing, but if you’ve got a certain amount of vision and you write a lot of songs, it’s sometimes better to have your own band and make your own decisions. – Jason Isbell
I had no vision of me being a part of that show ever. But I was committed to being the first super-fan of ‘The Hamilton Mixtape’ that there ever was. I was in love with this thing. – Leslie Odom, Jr.
Part of the process of acting in a film that you’re also directing is really trusting the people around you to capture your vision, which hopefully you have communicated well to them. – Katie Aselton
Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision. – Jim Jarmusch
It’s a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists. – Karen Kain