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When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority. (Black Elk )
Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits. (Black Elk )
I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision. (Black Elk )
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it. (Black Elk )
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. (Black Elk )
It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp. (Black Elk )
Its marvelous what you can see when you open your eyes. (Black Elk )
Yesterday is but 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. (Black Elk )
The man with vision always goes ahead of the man with visions. (Black Elk )
The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing -- where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do. (Black Elk )
Three levels of organizational vision: 1. The Do-able 2. The Conceivable 3. The Previously Unthinkable. (Black Elk )
Dwell in though upon the Grandest, And the Grandest you shall see; Fix your mind upon the Highest, And the Highest you shall be. (Black Elk )
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail. (Black Elk )
A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without a vision is drudgery. A vision with a task is the hope of the world. (Black Elk )
If you want to look with only one eye then you will only see part of the picture. (Black Elk )
No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise. (Black Elk )
I want to use television not only to entertain, but to help people lead better lives. (Black Elk )
Vision looks inwards and becomes duty. Vision looks outwards and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upwards and becomes faith. (Black Elk )
To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is. (Black Elk )
Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body; but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me. (Black Elk )
I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it. (Black Elk )
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