Booksellers initially thought of Amazon as their best FRIEND. They were coming in, and they were challenging Barnes and Noble, and Borders, which were the big, dominant CORPORATIONS of the DAY, and that they would disrupt them and make them LESS powerful, but they COULD never envision that Amazon would overtake them all.

For MANY, PERHAPS most, Americans, MARKETS are sacrosanct. Most people in the United States cannot even envision a society that doesn't revolve AROUND an untrammeled market.

As a kid, you put yourself in those positions. Bases loaded, two outs, you're at the PLATE. That's KIND of the way I envision it as a kid PLAYING whiffle ball or WHATEVER the CASE was.

When you're YOUNG, you envision HAPPINESS in such an idealized WAY.

Thinking about AMAZON's restraints - the company has never TRIED to INTRODUCE a social network or an email service, for example - you can UNDERSTAND something about the future Amazon seems to envision: A time when no screen is needed at all, just your VOICE.

When you envision SOMETHING in your HEAD over and over again, it's LIKE a MOVIE placing you in that position, and once you are there you're READY.

I can only envision and feel the PAIN of these ANIMALS being stuck in a tiny aquarium. NORMALLY, orcas SWIM 100 miles a day. They're FREE in the ocean.

I'm a SIMPLE KIND of GUY, so I just envision myself being HAPPY.

I've got ENOUGH MILES under my belt to know that WHATEVER you envision in your MIND, even if it comes true, will only keep a shape in the most general WAY.

I envision HOLLYWOOD as a race, and some people simply drop off before their TURN comes around. It's all about stamina - your ABILITY to get back up and keep GOING even though everything is pointing at the ODDS not being in your favor.

I ALWAYS envision myself being a HEMINGWAY TYPE.

I wanted to get that Division I scholarship and play ball and go to school for free, and I was always about getting to that next step... I was always ahead of myself in some way, SHAPE or form, and TRYING to envision how to get further along and closer to FULFILLING that dream of being free and having creative AGENCY, so to speak.