The most important role of visions is to give focus to human energy. Visions are like lenses that focus unrefracted rays of light - J.M. Kouze and B.Z. Posner
The largest single cause of human disease, the cause of 80 percent of illness, is water-borne pathogens. This year 5.2 million people will die because of bad water. Yet in rich countries we use drinkable water to wash our cars and flush our toilets. I think in the next century you will see that all but disappear. Water will become more costly than oil - Dean Kamen http://edition.cnn.com/2005/TECH/05/11/visionary.kamen/
The ignorant thirsts sitting by the water-side - African tribe Oromo
Prophets are, by their nature, inconvenient party-poopers. It is a mistaken notion that prophets can see the future. Rather, they tell us what is true right now.
People with a limited vision can only produce limited results. We need on this planet a flock of people with the broadest, most daring, universal visions - Robert Muller
Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision - Stevie Wonder
In order to make anything a reality, you have to dream about it first - Adora Svitak
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them - Henry David Thoreau
If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself - Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr, Decline of Heroes
I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision - Henry David Thoreau