“What vision must Negro writers have before their eyes in order to feel the impelling necessity for an about face? What angle of vision can show them all the forces of modern society in process, all the lines of economic development converging toward a distant point of hope? Must they believe in some `ism?”

— Richard Wright

"Blueprint" 45
White Man, Listen! (1957)

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African-American writer 1908–1960

Paul Nash (artist) (1889–1946) British surrealist painter and war artist

Outline- An Autobiography & Other Writings (London, 1949)

“When the ephemeral vision's lure is past
All, all, must face their Passion at the last.”

Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) writer

Heroic Poem in Praise of Wine (1932)

“Our communities must face daily not a few difficulties of an economic order; above all, however, they must be able to react to an inferiority complex in the face of an oppressive Muslim majority, which makes them feel oppressed and can make them think that they are the "infidels."”

Martin Kmetec (1956) Slovenian Catholic archbishop

Source: Benedict XVI's Visit to Turkey: the Context https://www.catholic.org/featured/headline.php?ID=3827 (November 2006)

“Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.”

Henry Adams book The Education of Henry Adams

Source: The Education of Henry Adams

“All successful people men and women 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 (1944) American motivational speaker and writer

Source: Personal Success

“And yet this very singleness of vision and thorough oneness with his age is a mark of the successful man. It is as though Nature needs must make men narrow in order to give them force.”

W.E.B. Du Bois book The Souls of Black Folk

Source: The Souls of Black Folk (1903), Ch. III: Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others

“The vision is really about empowering workers giving them all the information about what’s going on so they can do a lot more than they’ve done in the past.”

Bill Gates (1955) American business magnate and philanthropist

“Good leadership is not just a matter of making things happen; it is a matter of making essential things happen, making important and productive things happen, and helping people feel good about what is happening. Leaders need to have a vision, but they also need to know how to convince others that their vision can manifest, and how to empower them to participate in the mission of bringing the vision about.”

Bhakti Tirtha Swami (1950–2005) American Hindu writer

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Books, Leadership for an Age of Higher Consciousness, Volume II: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times (Hari-Nama Press, 2001)

“For me all is in the conception. I must therefore have a clear vision of the whole from the beginning.”

Henri Matisse (1869–1954) French artist

1905 - 1910, Notes of a Painter' (1908)

“I went one afternoon to the church of my childhood and had a vision of what I must have really meant with "Beat"… the vision of the word Beat as being to mean beatific…”

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer

"The Origins of the Beat Generation" in Playboy (June 1959)
Context: I went one afternoon to the church of my childhood and had a vision of what I must have really meant with "Beat"… the vision of the word Beat as being to mean beatific... People began to call themselves beatniks, beats, jazzniks, bopniks, bugniks and finally I was called the "avatar" of all this.

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