One thing that I love about World Vision is every place they go, they go in with an exit plan, they don't want people dependent on them.
I'm the one who changes the world if I can follow what I think should and shouldn't be lived in this world.
We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal.
Each story, novel, poem and play presents a vision of the world that illuminates the dark cave of life we stumble through. We can see better where we're going, what sudden drop to avoid, where the cool water is running.
When I first started working with World Vision, I would sit down and talk with them about issues that concern any part of the world. MSF told me about what was going on in North Korea. I also support AIDS and breast cancer charities.
[Photography] remains servile to a thoughtless vision of the world... As the term snapshot suggests, photography seizes the moment and exhibits it.
We have to ask ourselves what kind of world we want to live in.
A lot of people want what I would call sci-fi; people want television to be what they think the world should look like. That is different than what I do.
Osho is one of India's greatest mystics.... I see him as one of the world's great teachers, thinkers, philosophers and guides of our times. I have enormous respect for his world vision and the kind of International Communities he is building. I have always felt his influence in my life.
And this is the best success I can dream for my life: to have spread a new vision of the world.
Remember, once more how our world should be. And please, don't forget, please, please don't forget.
The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world.
It may be fine for an artist to be indifferent to the reaction of the viewer to a work of art. A vigorous debate on issues is also beneficial. But the dark vision of a world without truth cannot be our future.
A writer is basically someone who shares his or her value or vision of the world.
We need to have a vision of the world we want to create so that we can see ourselves as collaborators with future generations in the project of shaping it.
The first step toward changing the world is to change our vision of the world and of our place in it.
I lived with a coffee farmer called Dukale on a trip I made with World Vision to Ethiopia, and realised there's no good reason for the disparity in opportunity around the world.
Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.
It is only through imagination that men become aware of what the world might be; without it, ‘progress’ would become mechanical and trivial.
So books are real to me, too; they link me not just with other minds but with the vision of other minds, what those minds understand and see. I see their worlds as well as I see my own.
Yehudi Menuhin was a citizen of the world in the fullest sense - one whose vision and culture gave him a deep empathy with fellow human beings of every creed and color.
