Motivational Quotes

Vision

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

- Barker, Joel A.

Best Quotes about Vision

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

Marden, Orison Swett

Already we Viewers, when not viewing, have begun to whisper to one another that the more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

Priestley, J. B.

Our first journey is to find that special place for us.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

Bradley, Omar Nelson

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

Faith is power to believe and power to see...

Mulford, Prentice

If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press.

Turner, Ed

It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.

Harriman, Edward H.

10.

All successful people are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Tracy, Brian

11.

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

12.

Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion.

Brande, Dorothea

13.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

Churchill, Winston

14.

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, Robert

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The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

Broughton, James

16.

So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist. In fact, deep in their hearts, this is what the spuds crave most: a rich, new, participatory life.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

17.

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

Kasem, Casey

18.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Swift, Jonathan

19.

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

James, Clive

20.

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

21.

It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp.

Ullman, James Ramsey

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Three people were at work on a construction site. All were doing the same job, but when each was asked what the job was, the answers varied. Breaking rocks, the first replied. Earning my living, the second said. Helping to build a cathedral, said the third.

Schultz, Peter

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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

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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

25.

The best vision is insight.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Build it and they will come!

Movie, Fields Of Dreams

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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

28.

The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring this endeavor will light our bounty and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.

Brokaw, Tom

31.

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

32.

Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.

Gaines, Frank

33.

Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision, but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.

34.

There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

35.

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

Walton, Sam

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To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest.

37.

The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.

Mailer, Norman

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Cherish you visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate achievements.

Hill, Napoleon

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As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

Blake, William

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Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Starr, Pamela Vaull

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The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

Marden, Orison Swett

42.

You have to think big to be big.

Bristol, Claude M.

43.

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

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TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Day, Sir Robin

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The kingdom of God could be realized simply by daring to live differently from the normal conventions. The kingdom of God in the teachings of Jesus was not an apocalyptic or heavenly projection of otherworldly desire. It was driven by a desire to think that there must be a better way to live together than the present state of affairs. And it called for a change of behavior in the present on the part of individuals invested in the vision.

Mack, Burton L.

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Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Swindoll, Charles

49.

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.

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

Keller, Helen