Motivational Quotes

Vision

Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big?

- Allen, Charles L.

Best Quotes about Vision

Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas -- including this one.

Rather, Dan

In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

I got sick of turning on the TV and seeing my face.

Fox, Michael J.

It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.

Brown, Les

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The most puzzling thing about TV is the steady advance of the sponsor across the line that has always separated news from promotion, entertainment from merchandising. The advertiser has assumed the role of originator, and the performer has gradually been eased into the role of peddler.

White, Elwyn Brooks

The obscure we see eventually, the completely apparent takes longer.

Murrow, Edward R.

Better to aim at a star than shoot down a well; you'll hit higher.

The answers to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle, they're on TV!

Simpson, Homer

10.

Vision looks inwards and becomes duty. Vision looks outwards and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upwards and becomes faith.

Wise, Stephen S.

11.

Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing...

Collier, Robert

12.

The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

Marden, Orison Swett

13.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

Keller, Helen

14.

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdad's of his dreams to rise from the dust.

Dali, Salvador

15.

Television has brought back murder into the home -- where it belongs.

Hitchcock, Alfred

16.

The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.

Ross, Andrew

17.

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

Marden, Orison Swett

18.

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

19.

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

Schwab, Charles M.

20.

Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.

Sade, Marquis De

21.

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

Hutchins, Robert M.

22.

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

Picasso, Pablo

23.

If you want to look with only one eye then you will only see part of the picture.

Williams, Les

24.

Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.

Kasem, Casey

25.

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

Bradley, Omar Nelson

26.

Television, despite its enormous presence, turns out to have added pitifully few lines to the communal memory.

Kaplan, Justin

27.

I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.

Schwab, Charles M.

28.

When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.

Swindoll, Charles

29.

We lift ourselves by our thought. We climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always everywhere.

Marden, Orison Swett

30.

Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.

James, Clive

31.

Television -- a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.

Kovacs

32.

The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Barker, Joel A.

33.

To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

34.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.

Jung, Carl

35.

Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.

Murdoch, Rupert

36.

Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans. Aim high in hope and work. Remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

Burnham, Daniel H.

37.

Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.

Terkel, Studs

38.

So by all means let's have a television show quick and long, even if the commercial has to be delivered by a man in a white coat with a stethoscope hanging around his neck, selling ergot pills. After all the public is entitled to what it wants, isn't it? The Romans knew that and even they lasted four hundred years after they started to putrefy.

Chandler, Raymond

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I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

Gandhi, Mahatma

40.

What do a few lies on TV matter? They can be swallowed, digested and excreted, or follow people when they doze off to sink into oblivion.

Zhang Jie

41.

TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

42.

Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Barker, Joel A.

43.

Dwell in though upon the Grandest, And the Grandest you shall see; Fix your mind upon the Highest, And the Highest you shall be.

44.

Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.

Day, Sir Robin

45.

Its marvelous what you can see when you open your eyes.

46.

Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones.

Kaufman, Herbert

47.

The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

48.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Davies, Robertson

49.

Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big?

Allen, Charles L.

50.

The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the character of seers. The Elgin Marbles and a decision of John Marshall are valued for the same reason. What we feel in them is a painstaking submission to facts beyond the author's control, and to ideas imposed upon him by his vision. So with Beethoven's Symphonies, with Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations -- with any conceivable output of the human mind of which you approve. You love them because you say, These things were not made, they were seen.

Chapman, John Jay