Stephen Covey Quotes

The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.

Vision is the ability to talk about the future with such clarity it is as if we are talking about the past.

A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds.

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.

Creating the future means having a global vision and an extreme focus on the approachability of what we're creating.

The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.

Vision encompasses vast vistas outside the realm of the predictable, the safe, the expected.

The great successful men of the world have used their imagination. They think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building.

The most challenging thing for a young entrepreneur is to think long-term. When you are 22 years old, it’s hard to think in 22-year increments since that’s as long as you’ve been alive. But it’s really important to view your life as an entrepreneur as a long journey that consists of many short-term cycles.

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future.

Work up imagination to the state of vision.

Personal Vision is often the catalyst for wise decisions.

Every great advancement was once nothing more than a dream in the mind of a visionary.

I've always written songs with a visual counterpart in my mind that no one else can see.

In my job I do my best to look forward.

Inspiring visions rarely (I'm tempted to say never) include numbers.

The people who dream are very often the people who see, and dreaming and seeing precede doing.

The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented.

And the most successful leader of all is one who sees another picture not yet actualized. He sees the things which belong in his present picture but which are not yet there.

A leader should be a visionary and have more foresight than an employee.

We shape ourselves by our imaginative reach.

Imagination allows us to conceive of delightful future possibilities, pick the most amazing one, and pull the present forward to meet it.

All things are created twice; first mentally; then physically. The key to creativity is to begin with the end in mind, with a vision and a blue print of the desired result.

Our imagination it is our greatest ally . . . Imagination is a very, very powerful thing. It literally invents the path before you.