Limited Resources

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more than she can be witty by only the help of speech. - Langston Hughes


Beauty is more than skin deep.

Emergencies

Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was that which drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job. - Victor Hugo

  Focused visionaries are driven as if by an emergency.

Missing the Lining

Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold. - Maurice Seller


High expectations should not obscure your vision.

Looking Up

May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I am looking down. - Sara June Parker

....or any other source of light.

Kicked Lately?

Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Be sure you are at least as observant as a dog.

The Fuel

It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats. - Russian Proverb

When you see power, look for the source.

Lemonade Time

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson


When times are tough figure out how to make lemonade.

Reflection

We cannot see our reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see - Toaist wisdom


Take time for reflection.

Clarity

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none. - Thomas Fuller 


Share your solutions with someone else with one eye to see it more clearly.

Seeing Future Potential

The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We’re just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people––as remarkable as the telephone.” [Playboy, Feb. 1, 1985] - Steve Jobs


1985! That is being insightful and connecting the dots. Most of us were sitting around asking each other "What are they going to do with this Internet thing?"

Calm Waters

Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm. - Malayan Proverb


Remember, crocodiles are cold-blooded predators.

Look Up

Many a man gets to the top of the ladder, and then finds out it has been leaning against the wrong wall. - Dr.Laurence J. Peter


Might I suggest glasses so they can see where they are going?

Seeing Sticks

You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it. - W. C. Fields


But drinking spirits turns the stick blurry!

Seeing Things in the Seed

To see things in the seed, that is genius. - Lao-Tzu


The ability of every successful innovator.

Beauty of Mathematics

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence. - Charles Caleb Colton


Sorry Chuck, but the study of mathematics never ends....but is full of magnificence all along the way none the less.


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Beauty Within

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach 


And the unknown.


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Scenic Vision

Every once in a while, take the scenic route. - H. Jackson Brown Jr. 

A change in scenery will improve your vision.

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Seeing Through Walls

What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite. - Thomas Carlyle 


Learn to see through walls that block your view.


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Illumination

I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination. - David Ogilvy 


Judgment is the melding of thought, education and philosophy - each of which can provide illumination. Don't use just one and ignore the other two lest you use the lamp post only for support.


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Shallow Vision

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into. - Ansel Adams

Not just photographs; most everything is given a cursory glance.

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