We don't talk very often about the danger of visions. Visions can be very powerful, but visions can create a kind of inflexibility in us. Chasing after our visions can cause us to bulldoze through reality with blinders on. History is full of people with a vision who left a wide path of destruction in their wake. If you don't have a picture in your head of how things are supposed to be, you're less likely to be frustrated by or distracted from what's actually happening in front of you.
-- Austin Kleon, Don't Call It Art, p. 179
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