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When the institutions of money rule the world, it is perhaps inevitable that the interests of money will take precedence over the interests of people. What we are experiencing might best be described as a case of money colonizing life. To accept this absurd distortion of human institutions and purpose should be considered nothing less than an act of collective, suicidal insanity.

- David Korten

If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth.

- David Korten

It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry's decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes more and more important and prosperous.

- Robert Shea

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.

- Edmund Wilson

All great people glorify their history and look back upon their early attainments with a spiritualized vision.

- Kelly Millar

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

That's the only way I can control my movie. If you shoot everything, then everything is liable to end up in the movie. If you have a vision, you don't have to cover every scene.

- Debbie Allen

The trouble with most of the things that people want is that they get them.

- George Wald

When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation; he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems.

- Marvin Minsky

For about seven years. I really like it there. There are a lot of great musicians. The scene is very open. A lot of stuff going on. People's ears are really open, they are not closed. A lot of scenes here, people just get tunnel vision and are into one thing.

- John Zorn

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

- Dag Hammarskjold

This constitution recognises the need for social dialogue involving labour and management; it involves trade unions in the decision-making process; it has a social vision founded on social dialogue.

- Jean-Pierre Raffarin

It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.

- John Hersey

We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston.

- Marvin Minsky

So yeah, a good director will be able to listen and hear everything, but have a confident vision of his own that he can say, 'oh yeah - that's a great point.' And you never know; often you can help far more than you think you can, because there's so much more that he's juggling than an actor.

- Christian Bale

But Maastricht was not the end of history. It was a first step towards a Europe of growth, of employment, a social Europe. That was the vision of Francois Mitterrand. We are far from that now.

- Laurent Fabius

Satisfying every vision that fans have is probably impossible.

- John Harrison

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.

- Kim Cattrall

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.

- Tahar Ben Jelloun

All your losses will be made up to you in the resurrection, provided you continue faithful. By the vision of the Almighty I have seen it.

- Joseph Smith, Jr.

I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.

- Black Elk

But it is true that sometimes an enveloping darkness aids one to clearer vision; as in a panorama building, for example, where the obscurity about the entrance prepares one better for the climax, and gives the scene depicted a more real and vivid appearance.

- Pierre Loti

But in the past, US companies have been able to increase their profits through downsizing in the US, through colonizing other people's resources, and through the increase of globalization.

- David Korten

A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.

- John Jay Chapman

The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.

- George Steiner

I knew what book we had to write, it was clear in my head; it was journals and poetry. So I passed on their offer. I told my agent this is our vision, and no one's done it this way.

- Kenny Loggins

John Carpenter created the idea of Halloween, so his vision remains the most focused and intelligently directed of the series. The directors that have followed have kept the original intent of the concept.

- Donald Pleasence

One needs a Seer's Vision and an Angel's voice to be of any avail. I do not know of any Indian man or woman today who has those gifts in their most complete measure.

- Sarojini Naidu

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

- Joseph Joubert

In fact, since no one's been interested in my work, I took the responsibility recently to invest in my own work, so I'm producing a concert that was done at the Vision Festival in May.

- Joseph Jarman