Visionary Perspective Quotes

I NEVER LOOK BACK AT WHAT I HAVE ACHIEVED BECAUSE I AM ALWAYS LOOKING AT THE FUTURE. I CAN LOOK BACK AT WHAT I HAVE ACHIEVED WHEN I AM RETIRED - BUT UNTIL THEN IT IS ALL ABOUT FOCUS.

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

Sometimes, you're before your time with ideas, and you have to accept that you can't know.

The journey of filmmaking is so amazing. You start off with great confidence, and develop insecurity at the time of release. When you are ready with the finished product, you are constantly wondering if you have been honest to the story you started out with, if you got what you wanted. One is too close to the project by then to be objective.

America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.

One of the wonderful aspects of the human imagination is its power to break through the barriers of time and space. It can see things not as they are but as the can be.

When you've written a film and directed it and it comes out exactly as you imagined it, it's pretty boring.

Artists have a sensibility that others don't have. They have a way of reading into the future.

Creative people are all there, totally immersed, fascinated and absorbed in the present, in the current situation, in the here-now, with the matter-in-hand.

Without imagination, there is no goodness, no wisdom.

Faith in the creative process, in the dynamics of emergence, in the values and purposes that transcend past achievements and past forms, is the precondition of all further growth.

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.

Generally, a writer of force is anywhere from 20 years to 200 years ahead of his generation.

We appeal, not to those who reject today in the name of a return to yesterday, not to those who are hopelessly deafened by today; we appeal to those who see the distant tomorrow -- and judge today in the name of tomorrow.

[O]ur statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Do, What you're going to do in longevity. Not just what happens tomorrow.

Grandchildren have taught me how important the future is. I try to look through their eyes and envision what's in their imagination. What's the world going to look like when they're my age? That really does take a huge imagination.

The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.

The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm at a loss to explain my delusion that there exist any real links between that past and a future worthy of it.

The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware of the nature of the present.

A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction.

As important as the funds are, the vision is the greatest gift.

We in government should learn to look at our country with the eyes of the entrepreneur, seeing possibilities where others see only problems

I think that you're smarter than we were, but we had two things: one is, in our naïveté we believed we could change the world. And number two, we believed that another world was possible. And once that belief took hold of some critical mass, a tiny minority nonetheless, but a critical mass of people, then the world did change.

He realized that he had thought only about the first step, never imagined the last.