Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

Collier distinguishes between imagination as the mind’s capacity to form images and vision as the motivating force that turns those images into a personal, actionable aim. “Imagination” can remain passive—pleasant pictures or idle daydreams—whereas “vision” implies commitment, desire, and direction. The quote suggests that progress depends not merely on conceiving possibilities but on feeling compelled to embody them: to internalize an ideal until it becomes part of one’s identity and choices. In the context of self-help and success literature, the passage functions as a practical psychology of achievement: the future is first pictured, then claimed, then pursued.