"You sell your vision using positive, powerful language – ditch phrases such as 'we have to do this' or 'we've got to do that'.
The volunteer campaigners who pursue this vision, using their commitment and imagination to fight off profiteers and overcome municipal inertia, are on to something very good indeed.
SoftBank bought UK imaging specialist Apical earlier this year, a company that specialises in technology to allow computers to analyse images – replicating human vision using software.
Ms. Miller showed Mr. Wolf the second bedroom and began describing her vision, using several books on Indian design to illustrate her ideas.
Released from the hospital, Mr. Turner began working on a literal interpretation of his vision, using objects, artifacts and plants from his native Mississippi, including cotton, yams and peanuts.
Soon opticians – and even their assistants – will be able to check people's vision using just a mobile phone, and it won't matter if they're not sure what they're seeing because the phone will know what to look for.
Cities as platforms is his next big vision – using the "internet of things" to change the way in which the public sector and private companies deliver or exchange data with citizens.
James Marsh's documentary about this sublime piece of audacity does full justice to Petit's vision, using interviews with the man himself and his crew, and using photos from the time, and dramatised reconstructions - there is evidently no home-movie record and no television footage, as this was before the age of rolling coverage and rapid-response news 'copters.
Although Julius Caesar's plans to enhance Rome's cultural status by erecting a public library were cut short by his assassination, one of his supporters, Asinius Pollio, would execute his vision, using spoils from one of his military campaigns to finance an edifice just off the Forum, near the city's center.
They offer a competing vision: using top stars to make literate movies and shows so "hip and cool and relevant," Mr. Flaherty said, that they are mobbed by 7-to-14-year-olds and their parents yet also embraced by schools as teaching tools.
VISX designs technologies for surgically correcting vision using lasers.
