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

The road winds up the hill to meet the height; Beyond the locust hedge it curves from sight -- And yet no man would foolishly contend. That where he sees it not, it makes an end.

Carleton, Emma

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

Barker, Joel A.

When it comes to spotting a blonde hair on a man's coat, every wife has 20-20 vision.

You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles -- events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.

Browne, Harry

Nine-tenths of our sickness can be prevented by right thinking plus right hygiene -- nine-tenths of it!

Miller, Henry

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

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

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

Paglia, Camille

There are lone figures armed only with ideas, sometimes with just one idea, who blast away whole epochs in which we are enwrapped like mummies. Some are powerful enough to resurrect the dead. Some steal on us unawares and put a spell over us which it takes centuries to throw off. Some put a curse on us, for our stupidity and inertia, and then it seems as if God himself were unable to lift it.

Miller, Henry

10.

What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his place is and may be. He needs an objective and a purpose. He needs a feeling and a belief that he has some worthwhile thing to do. What this is no one can tell him. It must be his own creation. Its success will be measured by the nature of his vision, what he has done to equip himself, and how well he has performed along the line of its development.

Dodge, Joseph M.

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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.

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It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

Eliot, T. S.

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Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Alcott, Louisa May

14.

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

James, Clive

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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

16.

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

Nightingale, Earl

17.

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

18.

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

Kaplan, Justin

19.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Davies, Robertson

20.

I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.

Carlyle, Thomas

21.

Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom.

Robbins, Anthony

22.

Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Barker, Joel A.

23.

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

Murrow, Edward R.

24.

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

Picasso, Pablo

25.

The best vision is insight.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

26.

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

Fox, Michael J.

27.

I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the Promised Land.

King Jr. Martin Luther

28.

So shine on through these days we have to fill.

John, Elton

29.

I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.

Midler, Bette

30.

Build it and they will come!

Movie, Fields Of Dreams

31.

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

32.

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

33.

One eye sees, the other feels.

Klee, Paul

34.

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.

35.

Television is becoming a collage -- there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.

Hockney, David

36.

TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

37.

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

38.

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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I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book.

Marx, Groucho

40.

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.

41.

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

42.

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

Terkel, Studs

43.

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.

44.

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

Mulford, Prentice

45.

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

Simpson, Homer

46.

The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing -- where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.

47.

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.

Miller, Arthur

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

Brokaw, Tom

49.

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

Allen, Charles L.

50.

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