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A vision is a mental image of what the future will or could be like

• Vision: The ability to think or plan the future with imagination or wisdom. A mental image of what the future will or could be like.  Oxford Dictionary
• Vision relates to seeing mental pictures of the grand vision you imagine for your life or organization. Marta Davidovich Ockuly
• Vision: A vivid, imaginative conception or anticipation. Dictionary.com
• A vision statement is the definable intention from which preparation is formed. It is a mental image of what you believe is possible. Gordon D’Angelo
• A vision is not just a picture of what could be; its an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more. Rosabeth Kantor
• Imagination,  Begin with the end in mind,  Dreams, Visualisation,  Clarity,  Intention,  Create a vision for your ideal life

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Vision is beginning with the end in mind

• Begin with the end in mind. Shape your future by creating a mental vision and purpose for any project, large or small. Stephen Covey
• To begin with the end in mind means to begin each day, task, or project with a clear vision of your desired direction and destination, and then continue by flexing your proactive muscles to make things happen. Stephen Covey
• Begin with the end in mind is based on the principle that all things are created twice. There’s a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things. Stephen Covey
• Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it; they feel it; they experience it before they actually do it. They begin with the end in mind. Stephen Covey
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Vision is your desired destination

• Where are you headed? The answer to this question is your vision. Vision is the destination, the point of reference you are always working toward, the ultimate picture of success. If all your plans and goals were fully accomplished, this is where you would be. Matthew Cleek
• A vision statement describes what you want to achieve in the future. The vision statement answers the question “Where do I want to be?” It defines the optimal desired future state—the mental picture—of what you want to achieve over time, say in five, ten or more years. It inspires you to give your best and shapes your understanding of why you are doing what you do. Susanne Madsen
• A vision statement describes what success and excellence look like to you. It expresses your vision for where you want to be in the future and it reflects your values, goals, and purpose and how you want to operate. Susanne Madsen

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Vision is one of the highest intelligences of the mind

• When you study the lives of all great achievers–those who have had the greatest influence on others, those who have made things happen- -you will find a pattern. Through their persistent efforts and inner struggle, they have greatly expanded their four native human intelligences or capacities. The highest manifestations of these four intelligences are: for mental, vision; for the physical, discipline; for the emotional, passion; for the spiritual, conscience. These manifestations also represent our highest means of expressing our voice. Stephen Covey
• As nature discovered early on, vision is one of the most powerful secret weapons of an intelligent animal to navigate, survive, interact, and change the complex world it lives in. Fei-Fei Li
• Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks. Aberjhani
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Visioning is often done hand in glove with clarification of purpose

• A mission statement does not define a long term future state as a vision does but is more concerned with the present state. It answers the questions of: “What do I do?”, “Who do I do it for?”, “Why do I do it?” and “How do I do it?” Susanne Madsen
• My purpose is to help people be all they can be. My vision is a world where everyone is has access to their full potential and intrinsic genius. Martin Howarth
• Your purpose explains what you are doing with your life. Your vision explains how you are living your purpose. Your goals enable you to realize your vision. Bob Proctor
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Vision goes hand in hand with goal setting

• There’s nothing wrong with having goals. In fact, a well-defined personal vision should naturally lead to a more focused goal set. However, setting arbitrary minor goals without a mind for where the stepping stones lead can sometimes makes us feel more confident in where we’re headed. Eric Ravenscraft
• If you don’t have that vision for the end goal, you have no clue where you’re going, and you’re going to work very hard to go nowhere. J. J. Watt
• If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily. Jack Canfield
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All great things are created twice: first in the vision of the mind, then in reality

• To liberate the potential of your mind, body and soul, you must first expand your imagination. You see, things are always created twice: first in the workshop of the mind and then, and only then, in reality. I call this process ‘blueprinting’ because anything you create in your outer world began as a simple blueprint in your inner world. Robin Sharma
• You’ve got to win in your mind before you win in your life. John Addison
• The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. Winston Churchill
• When an object or purpose is clearly held in thought, its precipitation, in tangible and visible form, is merely a question of time. The vision always precedes the realisation. Lillian Whiting
• Everything begins in the mind. If you want to see clearly, you need clear vision. Swami Satchidananda
• The outer world can be transformed by a subjectively infused vision. Jane Hirshfield
• Everything exists as an idea in someone’s mind. George Berkeley

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Vision creates the future

• The future you see is the future you get. Robert G Allen
• Imagining what you want as if it already exists opens the door to letting it happen. Shakti Gawain
• Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. George Bernard Shaw
• The future is not there waiting for us. We create it by the power of imagination. Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
• It is through the imagination that the formless takes form. Catherine Ponder
• It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe. Barry Lopez
• This world is but a canvas to our imaginations. Henry David Thoreau
• No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it. Richard Bach
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Vision brings clarity, focus and direction to your life

• Have a clear vision to bring clarity and focus to everything you do. Your vision allows you to decide what to do, as much as it helps you to decide what not to do. That is, your vision will allow you to decide which commitments to take on and which commitments to say “no” to. Marelisa Fabrega
• Practice clarity of vision. What do you want to create? Ask yourself what you really want, why you really want it, and if manifesting it will serve a higher purpose for humanity. Deepak Chopra
• In any situation in which you are uncertain, the first thing to consider, very simply, is “What do I want to come of this? What is it for?” The clarification of the goal belongs at the beginning, for it is this which will determine the outcome.  A Course in Miracles
• A vision statement focuses your efforts. It clarifies your identity and priorities. It raises your standard of excellence, provides meaning to every task you want to accomplish, and strengthens your commitment as you move forward towards your goals. Dr Julie Connor
• The vision is true north for the soul. It is a permanent, intuitive compass direction for a human being. Every person inevitably strays from the path. Life is an endless experiment and course correction. The vision brings one back to the true path. Thomas G. Bandy
• Any activity that is not moving toward fulfilment of the vision should likely be discarded. Matthew Cleek
• A life vision is a compass to help guide you to take the best actions and make the right choices that help propel you toward your best life. Royale Scuderi
• When we get disconnected from our life’s direction, other people’s agendas come before our own. Scott Jeffrey
• If you have a clear vision of where you want to go, you are not as easily distracted by the many possibilities and agendas that otherwise divert you. Timothy Gallwey
• Your vision is the image of your ideal life. It’s about creating a legacy for others to follow. It’s about making a difference in the world around you. It’s about living a life filled with passion, purpose and joy. Misty Kearns
• Life is just as important as a company and is just as deserving of a clear vision and plan. Chris Yonker
• Vision is focus – where focus goes, energy flows. Cher Cunningham
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Vision leads to success and achievement

• By picturing ourselves creating at our highest levels, imagining the finished product and the deep joy that comes from creating, we move closer to our dreams. Visualizing the end result from our creative effort helps us achieve it. Salli Rasberry
• Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement. Florence Scovel Shinn
• If you can’t see it, before you see it, you’ll never see it. Jack Graham
• In my experience, there’s only one thing that will always steer you toward success: That’s to have a vision and to stick with it… Once I have a vision for a new venture, I’m going to ride that vision until the wheels come off. Russell Simmons
• Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be. Harry Emerson Fosdick
• The best way to succeed is to have a specific Intent, a clear Vision, a plan of Action, and the ability to maintain Clarity. Those are the Four Pillars of Success. It never fails! Steve Maraboli
• The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in mind. Norman Vincent Peale
• Visualization, that seeing of that which is not yet, is essential for the attainment of all the good that man may aspire to. Tehilla Lichtenstei
• When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative “success mechanism” within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or “willpower.” Maxwell Maltz
• The first step toward creating an improved future is developing the ability to envision it. Vision will ignite the fire of passion that fuels our commitment to do whatever it takes to achieve excellence. Only vision allows us to transform dreams of greatness into the reality of achievement through human action. Vision has no boundaries and knows no limits. Our vision is what we become in life. Tony Dungy
• When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. Paulo Coelho
• Your brain will work tirelessly to achieve the statements you give your subconscious mind. And when those statements are the affirmations and images of your goals, you are destined to achieve them! Jack Canfield
• The riches they receive will be in exact proportion to the definiteness of their vision, the fixity of their purpose, the steadiness of their faith, and the depth of their gratitude. Wallace D. Wattles
• What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his place is and may be. He needs an objective and a purpose. He needs a feeling and a belief that he has some worthwhile thing to do. What this is no one can tell him. It must be his own creation. Its success will be measured by the nature of his vision, what he has done to equip himself, and how well he has performed along the line of its development. Joseph Morrell Dodge
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Vision creates hope and optimism

• Where there is no vision, there is no hope. George Washington Carver
• When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.  Charles R. Swindoll
• A compelling personal vision statement can illuminate our way in periods of darkness. It can inspire us to shed all the stuff that holds us back. Scott Jeffrey
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Vision opens us up to possibilities

• Visions are about possibilities, about desired futures. They’re ideals, standards of excellence. As such, they’re expressions of optimism and hope. A mode of think based on visions opens us up to considering possibilities, not simply probabilities. James M. Kouzes
• Don’t limit yourself by what you may think is possible. A vision can overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Jesse Lyn Stoner
• Give yourself permission to explore, to dream. Be creative. Be playful. Use your “right brain” – logic can kick-in later. Jesse Lyn Stoner
• Envision your ideal life, as if money was no option, as if a fairy godmother could grant your every wish, as if you woke up in the morning to find that they’ve all come true. This helps shift you out of a fear-based, conditioned world, out of pessimism and into possibilities, into what could be. Theresa Quadrozzi
• The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world. Malcolm Gladwell
• The new world is as yet behind the veil of destiny. In my eyes, however its dawn has been unveiled. Allama Iqbal
• Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen. Victor Hugo
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Vision creates desire, motivation and inspiration

• All I know, is that the first step is to create the vision, because when you see the vision there—the beautiful vision—that creates the ‘want power.’ For example, my wanting to be Mr. Universe came about because I saw myself so clearly, being up there on stage and winning. Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Thinking in images creates fire in the mind, visions in the soul and energy in the body. Dr Jean Houston
• Combine your mental images with the emotion of desire to accelerate their realization. Brian Tracy
• Pain pushes until vision pulls. Michael Beckwith
• An effective vision is aspirational in that it’s about your goals, inspirational in that it provides life and direction to your day-to-day work and motivational in that it provides a reason for the work you do. David Masters
• Create a vision that makes you wanna jump out of bed in the morning. Ella Henderson
• Life visioning transcends mere ‘goal setting’ and brings pure inspiration into your life. Michael Beckwith
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Vision reduces fear

• When you focus on vision, many elements in your life will fall into place on their own. Things that used to be massive stressors will seem minor in comparison. You understand that you aren’t just encountering one blow after another; no matter what happens, you’re still working toward your vision, toward what you want your life to be. Tony Robbins
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If the vision is there, the means will follow

• If the vision is there, the means will follow. Faith Popcorn

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A vision expands your limits and potential

• The only limits are, as always, those of vision. James Broughton
• Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. Arthur Schopenhauer
• A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more. Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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Vision can lead to mastery

• Personal mastery is the discipline of continually clarifying and deepening our personal vision, of focusing our energies, of developing patience, and of seeing reality objectively. Peter Senge
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A vision can transform our lives into something beautiful

• A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• Guido the plumber and Michelangelo obtained their marble from the same quarry, but what each saw in the marble made the difference between a nobleman’s sink and a brilliant sculpture. Bob Kall
• He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it. Dream lofty dreams and as you dream so shall you become… James Allen
• You can choose instead to live in the enriching, empowering light of your own highest visions. You can always choose to grow, to achieve, and to fulfil by immersing your awareness in life’s ever-present goodness. Ralph Marston
• For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be. Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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A vision can enrich the world

• You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. Woodrow Wilson

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Creating and sharing a clear vision is the very essence of leadership

• A leader will find it difficult to articulate a coherent vision unless it expresses his core values, his basic identity…one must first embark on the formidable journey of self-discovery in order to create a vision with authentic soul. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there. John P. Kotter
• A great leader’s courage to fulfil his or her vision comes from passion, not position. John Maxwell
• I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a “transformer” in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader. Stephen Covey
• The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet. Theodore M. Hesburgh
• Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. Warren Bennis
• Good leaders have vision and inspire others to help them turn vision into reality. Great leaders have vision, share vision, and inspire others to create their own. Roy Bennett
• Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion. Jack Welch
• Effective leaders help others to understand the necessity of change and to accept a common vision of the desired outcome. John Kotter
• People are more inclined to be drawn in if their leader has a compelling vision. Great leaders help people get in touch with their own aspirations and then will help them forge those aspirations into a personal vision. John Kotter
• A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done. Ralph Lauren
• The very essence of leadership is that you have a vision. It’s got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet. Theodore Hesburgh
• To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership—not only on the movie set where I learned it, but everywhere. Ronald Reagan
• The person who sees the difficulties so clearly that he does not discern the possibilities cannot inspire a vision in others. J. Oswald Sanders
• Give us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for – because unless we stand for something we shall fall for anything. Peter Marshall
• Leaders are limited by their vision rather than by their abilities. Roy T. Bennett
• People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. John C. Maxwell
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Vision is the essence of entrepreneurship

• The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer… He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen. Robert L. Schwartz
• Capital isn’t scarce; vision is. Sam Walton    

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Vision is the essence of art and creativity

• Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world. Edward Hopper
• Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. Isaac Bashevis Singer
• To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength. Lawrence Clark Powell
• If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions. Catherine Drinker Bowen
• As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things. George Henry Lewes
• The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it. Max Bill
• Genius is that in which the soul of a race bums at its brightest, revealing and preserving its vision; works of art are great and significant in proportion to the clarity and fullness with which they incarnate this vision. George Edward Woodberry
• If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. John F. Kennedy
• Art is expression; what is expressed is often the vision of a subtle and powerful soul, and also his experience with his vision; and however vivid and skilful he may be in the means of expression, yet it is frequently found that the master-spell in his work is something felt to be indefinable and inexpressible. George Edward Woodberry
• You don’t have to compose a masterpiece every time, but I think the challenge of art is always searching for something different, searching for a new sensitivity, a new perspective, a new vision. Ludovico Einaudi
• My art has always been in response to visions. Rather than confine my subject to representations of the outer worlds, I include portrayals of the multi-dimensional imaginal realms that pull us toward consciousness evolution. Alex Grey
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Lack of vision can be very limiting

• The one thing worse than not being able to see is having no vision. Helen Keller
• Where there is no vision the people perish. Proverbs 29:18
• In the consciousness of the end is the limitation of the moment. Dylan McDermott
• One of the Great Truths of human experience is that we will achieve only what we conceive. Life cannot get better than the picture of life we habitually carry around with us. Lisa Hoffman
• The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive. Bill Watterson
• A man without a vision is a man without a future. A man without a future will always return to his past.

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Turn your dreams into a vision for the future

• A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown. Denis Waitley
• Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. James Allen
• I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires. Kahlil Gibran
• Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe. Gail Devers
• The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities. James Allen
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Use your imagination to create a vision of what you want

• Anxiety uses imagination to picture something you don’t want. Vision uses imagination to picture something you DO want. Either way, you tend to get what you focus on. Imagine a future where you shine, others thrive, and the light of hope shines brighter in the world. If you can see it, you can be it. Ian Lawton
• All successful people are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose. Brian Tracy
• There is a vision for my life that is greater than my imagination can hold. Oprah Winfrey
• You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. Mark Twain
• Vision is more than looking. David Eagleman
• This world is but a canvas to our imagination. Henry David Thoreau
• Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. Jonathan Swift
• Allow your vision to paint a mental picture of your life five to 20 years from now. Scott Jeffrey

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Create vivid mental pictures of how you’d like the future to be

• The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations, they think ahead and create their mental picture, and then go to work materializing that 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. Robert Collier
• One powerful exercise you can practice to supercharge your thinking and accelerate your results is called idealization. In idealization you continually imagine the perfect outcome or solution for any situation in your life. You project forward three to five years, or even further, and then create a mental picture of the kind of life and career that would be ideal for you in every respect. Brian Tracy
• Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind’s eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it. Charles A. Garfield
• Turn on your dream machine. Create mental pictures of what you want. Peter. J. Daniels
• If you don’t know where you are going, then how will you get there? VISUALISE! Make pictures in your mind. See the desination. Imagine your arrival. Dream in perfect detail. See yourself the way you want to be when you arrive. See yourself arriving. Make yourself a road map and study it every day until you know the way and the destination by heart. Bryce Courtena
• Imagine for a moment your own version of a perfect future. See yourself in that future with everything you could wish for at this very moment fulfilled. Now take the memory of that future and bring it here into the present. Let it influence how you will behave from this moment on. Deepak Chopra
• Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture. Norman Vincent Peale
• The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious. John Scully

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Create a vision by looking within

• Seeing within changes one’s outer vision. Joseph Chilton Pearce
• Turn your vision inward… and the whole world will be full of supreme spirit. Ramana Maharshi
• Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside…dreams. Who looks inside…awakens. Carl Jung
• Vision looks inward and becomes duty. Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.  Vision looks upward and becomes faith.  Stephen S. Wise

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Compare your vision with where you are now to create tension

• The way you create any outcome in your life is to hold the vision of your deepest desires. At the same time, though, you must honestly and accurately assess your current situation and how it relates to your greater vision. By doing this, you engage tension between what is and what can be. This tension is the primary creative force behind the manifestation of any outcome. It’s as natural and powerful as the force of gravity. David Emerald

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For a vision to be really useful, it must engender a change in your present behaviour

• The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender. David Allen
• The idea is to seek a vision that gives you purpose in life and then to implement that vision. The vision by itself is one half, one part, of a process. It implies the necessity of living that vision, otherwise the vision will sink back into itself. Lewis P. Johnson
• Imagine for a moment your own version of a perfect future. See yourself in that future with everything you could wish for at this very moment fulfilled. Now take the memory of that future and bring it here into the present. Let it influence how you will behave from this moment on. Deepak Chopra

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A vision must be based on values

• Instead of starting with a well-defined vision, end with it. Begin, instead, with values. Values are, very simply, an expression of what is most important to you. An example might be “family, financial security, love, honesty, service to others.” Jonathon Fields
• Don’t rush the vision. Spend time on self-discovery and experimentation. Values first. Then, allow the detailed vision to emerge in a more organic and aligned way. Jonathon Fields
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Vision should come from the heart

• A vision should come from the heart, not the head. Don’t try to think your way to a vision. To create a vision that’s exciting and compelling, you’ve got to give yourself the freedom to dream—to use your imagination to see and feel what does not yet exist. A vision is not the same as goals or objectives; those come from the head. A vision comes from the heart. John Graham
• Be as detailed as possible! Where do you see yourself in your ideal life?  Bring in your senses & emotions, so that you can literally FEEL how it feels to be there.  Aileen Xu
• Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. C.Carl Jung

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A vision should be clear and specific

• Your vision should be clear—so sharp and so detailed that you can see, smell and taste the smallest details. John Graham

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A vision should include asking why you want it

• Practice clarity of vision. What do you want to create? Ask yourself what you really want, why you really want it, and if manifesting it will serve a higher purpose for humanity. Deepak Chopra

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Vision needs a strategy and plan

• Planning helps clarify the steps needed to reach our future self, that Vision you have created of your future. When planning consists of goal setting, actions and timelines, it goes beyond day-to-day planning to become strategic planning.  Phyllis Reardon
• Sometimes Vision can be seen as dreaming or drifting; Strategy is planning and action. Phyllis Reardon
• A vision without a strategy remains an illusion. Lee Bolman
• Strategic planning is worthless – unless there is first a strategic vision. John Naisbitt
• Success, and remember this is any degree of success, can only be achieved by planning. Successful people make plans for success. True success comes from Vision, but it needs a Strategy. Phyllis Reardon
• Tremendous productivity can be generated, once a vision has been set, by reverse- engineering it back to short- term goals and objectives, for which you can then create projects that themselves trigger next actions. David Allen
• A vision without a plan is just a dream. A plan without a vision is just drudgery.  But a vision with a plan can change the world.
• Plan backwards rather than forwards. Consider the last step and work your way back to the first. Royale Scuderi
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A vision must be based on what you want, not what others want for you …

• You have sole ownership of your vision. And the Universe will give you what you want within your vision. What happens with most people is that they muddy their vision with “reality”. Their vision becomes full of not only what they want but what everybody else thinks about what they want, too. Your work is to clarify and purify your vision so that the vibration that you are offering can then be answered. Abraham-Hicks
• Successful people pay more attention to their visions and goals than to history and the opinions of others. Alan Cohen
• If you don’t make a conscious effort to visualize who you are and what you want in life, then you empower other people and circumstances to shape you and your life by default. Stephen Covey
• Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others. Roy T. Bennett
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… or what you don’t want

• You create a personal vision by going through a discovery process to clarify what’s most important to you. Scott Jeffrey
• Create a vision for what you truly desire, not what you want to move away from. Focus on where you want to go, not what you want to leave behind. Jesse Lyn Stoner

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Focus on the destination for now, not the roadmap

• What will the results look like; what will be accomplished; how will I feel about myself; how will I feel about others. Focus on the end-result, not the process for getting there. Jesse Lyn Stoner

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Ask yourself why

• Each time you think you have an answer, ask yourself “Why do I want that?” Jesse Lyn Stoner

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Cherish your vision enough and you will realise it

• Cherish your vision; cherish your ideals, cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, if you remain true to them, your world will at last be built. James Allen
• Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. Napoleon Hill
• He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it. Dream lofty dreams and as you dream so shall you become… James Allen

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Each day, run your vision through your mind in vivid, image rich detail

• Thinking in images creates fire in the mind, visions in the soul and energy in the body. Dr Jean Houston
• When you run inspiring, imaginative pictures through the movie screen of your mind, wonderful things start to happen in your life. Einstein said that ‘imagination is more important than knowledge.’ You must spend some time every day, even if it is just a few minutes, in the practice of creative envisioning. See yourself as you want to be, whether this means serving as a great judge, a great father or a great citizen of your community. Robin Sharma
• Imagine in vibrant, wonderful detail your heart’s desire; a reality only you can envision, an adventure only you can direct. Then cradle your creation. Caress it. Mold it. Coddle it until it comes to life. And when your precious treasure grows so grand as to steal your breath away, set it free for all the world to experience. For that is how you live your dreams. Richelle E. Goodrich
• Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose. Bo Bennett
• View the practice of contemplation as action, rather than as passive mental meandering. An hour a day throwing a bowling ball is action that leads to a higher bowling average; a few moments several times a day musing about what you intend to manifest in some area of your life will have precisely the same effect on your manifesting average. Contemplation is action. It’s necessary mind training for the implementation of anything you desire. Wayne Dyer
• The more you practice visualization the better you get at it. Jeffery A. Martin
• Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them over and over to yourself. Maxwell Maltz

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Combine your vision with passion and determination

• A Creator is vision-focused and passion-motivated. To really live into your Creator self, you are called to do the inner work necessary to find your own sense of purpose—whatever touches your heart and holds meaning for you. David Emerald
• A great leader’s courage to fulfill his or her vision comes from passion, not position. John Maxwell
• Having a Vision is not enough. It must be combined with imagination, determination, faith, hope and passion. It is not enough to just stare up at the stars…we must become the stars that the stars shine down on. Victoria June
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Commit to your vision and persevere in spite of the obstacles

• Focus on your vision and keep going until you hit the finish line. Don’t be one of the people who believe in their vision at first but then give up. See it through, no matter how long it takes. Understand that obstacles are just part of the game. Whatever you imagine, you can achieve. Once you realize this truth, no one is going to be able to stop you. Russell Simmons
• Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination, allows vision, and gives us the “right stuff” to turn our dreams into reality. James Womack
• It’s one thing to make a pronouncement in a moment of inspiration about what you intend to manifest in your life or what kind of person you intend to become. It’s quite another thing to make a commitment to holding that vision regardless of what difficulties or obstacles may surface. Holding the vision involves an unwillingness to compromise what you’re visualizing for yourself. It means being willing to suffer through criticism and what appears to be an uncooperative universe. Wayne Dyer
• Our sacred song can only be brought to life when the awakened heart weds the warrior’s spirit. The spirit of the warrior is one of resolve and determination. It drives through all obstacles. It is a commitment to follow our vision whatever the vision may be and wherever it may lead. John Kehoe
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Have a complete belief in your ability to achieve your vision

• The secret of making something work in your lives is first of all, the deep desire to make it work; then the faith and belief that it can work; then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief. Eileen Caddy
• The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it- as long as you believe 100 percent. Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Dreaming is not enough. You have to go a step further and use your imagination to visualize, with intent! Forget everything you’ve ever been taught, and believe it will happen, just as you imagined it. That is the secret. That is the mystery of life. Christine Anderson
• When constructing your visualizations you should only use positive thoughts and intent, and you should see what you desire as already being yours. Jeffery A. Martin
• Every man who accomplishes things sees first in his mind what he wishes to do. He puts away all doubt. It makes no difference how small or how large the thing you want to do may be; if you have an unlimited confidence in your ability to do it, you will do it. Charles Fillmore
• Vision looks inward and becomes duty. Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.  Vision looks upward and becomes faith.  Stephen S. Wise
• Don’t let others tell you what you can’t do. Don’t let the limitations of others limit your vision. If you can remove your self-doubt and believe in yourself, you can achieve what you never thought possible. Roy T. Bennett
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Let the power of your vision overcome your fear

• Fear prevents us from moving outside the comfort– or even the familiar discomfort–of what we know. It’s nearly impossible to achieve our highest vision for our lives as long as we are being guided by our fears. Debbie Ford
• When I care to be powerful–to use my strength in the service of my vision–then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. Audre Lorde
• With vision there is no room to be frightened., No reason for intimidation. It’s time to march forward! Let’s be confident and positive! Charles R. Swindoll
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If your vision is narrow, broaden it

• Most of us are living with a narrow vision of what it is to be human. When we allow our humanity to embrace our universality, we can easily become whatever it is we desire. Debbie Ford
• Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision. S. Naipaul
• Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves. James Frazer
• “We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view. Mao Tse-Tung
• A narrow vision is divisive, a broad vision expansive. But a divine vision is all-inclusive. H. H. Swami Tejomayananda
• The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope. Leonora Carrington
• The future is wider than vision, and has no end. Donald G. Mitchell

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Vision must be combined with a plan

• Plan backwards.  It’s often more useful to consider the last step and work your way back to the first. This is actually a valuable and practical strategy for making your vision a reality. Royale Scuderi
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Vision must be combined with action …

• Fantasizing about your perfect world and your perfect life may make you feel better in the short term but will limit your ability to transform your dreams into reality. Convert your vision boards to action boards. Neil Farber
• Ideas, thoughts, and dreams are great, but they are forms of energy that do not necessarily lead to action. It’s easier to think, wish, and dream than to do. Neil Farber
• Everything depends upon execution; having just a vision is no solution.  Stephen Sondheim
• Like a great athlete, we must have a very clear vision of what we want to accomplish before we make a move. Vision, in preparation for an action, is as important as the action itself. Marianne Williamson
• Poor eyes limit your sight; poor vision limits your deeds. Franklin Field
• The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps – we must step up the stairs. Vance Havner
• Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.  Warren Bennis
• If you have built your castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. Per Thoreau
• In order to make a visualization a reality in the world of form, you must be willing to do whatever it takes to make it happen.  Wayne Dyer
• I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren’t enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision. W. Clement Stone
• Envisioning success brings you an inspiring image, but bringing that image to life requires action. Larina Kase
• A vision inspires action. A powerful vision pulls in ideas, people and other resources. It creates the energy and will to make change happen. It inspires individuals and organizations to commit, to persist and to give their best. John Graham
• Dream about it, envision how you will realistically do it or get it, and then make it happen. Neil Farber
• A vision and strategy aren’t enough. The long-term key to success is execution. each day. Every day. Richard M. Kovacevich
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… for vision without action is just a daydream

• Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. Japanese proverb
• Vision without a task is only a dream. A task without a vision is but drudgery. But vision with a task is a dream fulfilled. Willie Stone
• A vision without a task is but a dream, a task without a vision is drudgery, a vision and a task is the hope of the world. From a church in Sussex, England, 1730
• Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world! Joel Barker
• Vision without action is a dream. Action without vision is simply passing the time. Action with Vision is making a positive difference. Joel Barker
• Vision without execution is hallucination. Thomas Edison
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Take consistent, concrete steps towards your vision

• When a goal as visionary as “end world hunger” begins with practical next steps like “Call Johann about the soup kitchen proposal” and “Surf the Web for seminars on food distribution research,” it can be quite energizing. David Allen
• As you’ll come to know, the closer you get to your goal, the more it draws you in; success feeds on success. It’s like a gravitational pull. Once you get into a rhythm, it’s hard to stop. You achieve big visions by doing the little things every day and looking at them in a positive focus. Shawn Phillips
• I think there is something more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers. There aren’t enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.   Clement Stone
• Some of the steps you take may end up being detours or out-and-out mistakes. By staying focused on your vision, though, you’ll find even those steps useful in the creating process. David Emerald
• Standing in the inspiring vision of my future,I boldly take every step – large and small – with courage and intent. Jonathan Lockwood Huie
• To get where we want to go in life, we have to keep at it. We have to create a vision, make choices based on what moves us most swiftly toward our goals, and go after them with determination and single-mindedness. Stedman Graham
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Allow action to guide the vision

• How do we substantially increase the likelihood that the thing we’re working so hard to attain is actually the thing we’ll truly want, if and when we get it? What if we gave ourselves room to learn more, pivot and adapt and remain open to better or different visions along the way? What if we let action and information guide the creation of a vision, rather than often-wrong leaps of faith and assumptions? Jonathon Fields

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Make a start now

• If you want to be useful, you can always start now, with only 1 percent of what you have in your grand vision. It’ll be a humble prototype version of your grand vision, but you’ll be in the game. You’ll be ahead of the rest, because you actually started, while others are waiting for the finish line to magically appear at the starting line. Derek Sivers
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Create a vision of who you want to be …

• I am not my past. I am not my yesterdays. I am not what I did yesterday, what I said yesterday, what I thought yesterday. I am the grandest version of the greatest vision I’ve ever had about who I am. Creating myself anew in the golden moment of now. Neale Donald Walsch
• The sooner you have a clear vision of what you want to be and the contributions you want to make, the more effective you’ll be in your life.  Stephen Covey
• We lift ourselves by our thought. We climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always everywhere. Orison Swett Marden
• What ignited the process wasn’t any innate skill or gene. It was a small, ephemeral, yet powerful idea: a vision of their ideal future selves, a vision that oriented, energized, and accelerated progress, and that originated in the outside world. Daniel Coyle
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… for you become what you envision

• The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart—this you will build your life by, this you will become. James Allen
• To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is. Peter Nivio Zarlenga
• Undoubtedly we become what we envision. Claude M. Bristol
• It is becoming more and more accepted that the pictures we hold in our minds about ourselves affect our neural patterns and self-image, which themselves are critical elements for determining what we perceive and how comfortable we feel about change. David Allen

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Act in line with your highest vision for yourself

• When we consistently do the things that align with our highest vision of ourselves—whether it’s getting up early to meditate or to exercise or to read or whatever—we build a deep level of self- trust that creates a magical energy. Brian Johnson
• Now, having seen the differences between where you are and where you want to be, begin to change—conciously change—you thoughts, words, and actions to match your grandest vision. Neale Donald Walsch
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Live your vision

• Clear your energy, honor your rhythm, live your vision. George Denslow
• The idea is to seek a vision that gives you purpose in life and then to implement that vision. The vision by itself is one half, one part, of a process. It implies the necessity of living that vision, otherwise the vision will sink back into itself. Lewis P. Johnson
• Live your vision and demand your success. Steve Maraboli
• If you want your vision to drive you to your desired destination, don’t just read it. Embody it. Bring it to life. Scott Jeffrey

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Have visions for the future but don’t let them stop you living in the moment

• Never confuse yourself by visions of an entire lifetime at once… remember that it is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Marcus Aurelius
• Look to this day, for it is life. For yesterday is already a dream and tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Sanskrit Proverb
• The more attached we are to a vision of the future, the less present we are to what is actually trying to emerge here and now. Peter Merry
• The real question is how do we live with divinely-inspired visions of the future AND feel great moment-    to- moment-to- moment? Brian Johnson
• No one lives on the top of the mountain. It’s fine to go there occasionally —for inspiration, for new perspectives. But you have to come down. Life is lived in the valleys. That’s where the farms and gardens and orchards are, and where the ploughing and the work is done. That’s where you apply the visions you may have glimpsed from the peaks. Arthur Gordon
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Create a shared vision with others

• Strength is derived from unity. The range of our collective vision is far greater when individual insights become one.  Andrew Carnegie
• Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results. Andrew Carnegie
• Alone, our vision is too narrow to see all that must be seen. Together, our vision widens and strength is renewed. Mark Morrison-Reed
• The core of any family is what is changeless, what is going to be there – shared vision and values. Stephen Covey
• A vision we give to others of who and what they could become has power when it echoes what the spirit has already spoken into their souls. Larry Crabb
• Because of the interconnectedness of all minds, affirming a positive vision may be about the most sophisticated action any one of us can take. Willis Harman
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These factors support and strengthen vision

• As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.   Helen Keller
• When your sense of worth exceeds your conditions, conditions will shift to match your vision. Alan Cohen
• Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow. Melody Beattie
• As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.   Helen Keller
• Knowledge is love and light and vision. Helen Keller
• The best vision is insight. Malcolm S. Forbes
• True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. Edith Wharton

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These factors are enemies of a clear vision

• Like steam from a cup of hot tea that fogs our glasses, false urgency of matters at hand blurs our vision to important things in the distance. Terri Guillemets
• Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes, it obstructs your vision. Hsi Tang

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Regain the vision of a child

• A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe- inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood. Rachel Carson
• Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardour, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. Aldous Huxley
• To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams. Giorgio de Chirico
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Have a vision for your meditation practice

• If you hope to bring meditation into your life in any kind of long-term, committed way, you will need a vision that is truly your own—one that is deep and tenacious and that lies close to the core of who you believe yourself to be, what you value in your life, and where you see yourself going. Only the strength of such a dynamic vision and the motivation from which it springs can possibly keep you on this path year in and year out, with a willingness to practice every day and to bring mindfulness to bear on whatever is happening, to open to whatever is perceived, and to let it point to where the holding is and where the letting go and the growing need to happen. Jon Kabat-Zinn
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• I am in the right place, doing the right thing, achieving what I have envisioned, and feeling fulfilled and complete.  Michael Rawls
• Standing in the inspiring vision of my future,I boldly take every step – large and small – with courage and intent.  Jonathan Lockwood Huie
• All I do supports the larger vision I have for my life.
• I hold steadily to my visions with purpose and intent.

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