Lack of Vision Quotes

For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they do but marshal us the way that we are going.

The blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.

We are strong country with weak leadership.

Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves.

Since the war [WWII], the world has been rushing forward at an unprecedented and exhilarating speed … Yet Britain lags behind, lacking the will or the plan which can bring this future within the reach of us all.

Our leaders are stupid. Our politicians are stupid.

O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!

People without clear vision are easily distracted, have a tendency to drift from one idea to another and often make foolish decisions that rob them of their dreams.

I think that the people who are the loudest about wanting to change you are the people with the least amount of vision and creativity.

Where there is no vision, the people perish.

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

Without a vision the people perish, but without courage dreams die.

The trouble with modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone.

After Apollo 17, America stopped looking towards the next horizon. The United States had become a space-faring nation, but threw it away. We have sacrificed space exploration for space exploitation, which is interesting but scarcely visionary.

Throughout Yorkshire's history, the committee had not been known for its visionary approach. They just assumed that because Yorkshire had been fantastic in the past, and the county was full of kids wanting to play cricket, everything would be okay.

A leader without the vision, to strive to improve things, is no good. Then you will just stay put, you won't progress.

We have zero strategic thinking out of our White House. And we have a national security structure that has lost its way when it comes to strategic thinking and strategic decision-making.

If you hesitate to map out your future, to make a big plan or to set a goal, you've just gone ahead and mapped your future anyway.

We live in a time of mediocre leadership—political and intellectual.

The poorest man in the world is the man without a dream.The most frustrated man in the world is the man with a dream that never becomes reality.

I was discouraged about life, discouraged about people being blind, but I don't think I had a day that I ever questioned creativity. There has never been a day like that.

Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.

If you don't have a vision you're going to be stuck in what you know. And the only thing you know is what you've already seen.

If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, not bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward.