Motivational Quotes

Vision

Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

- Barker, Joel A.

Best Quotes about Vision

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

Swindoll, Charles

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

Jung, Carl

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

You have to see the pattern, understand the order and experience the vision.

Gerber, Michael E.

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

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

Wise, Stephen S.

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

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Murrow, Edward R.

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Let's face it, there are no plain women on television.

Ford, Anna

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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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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

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

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Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.

O'Brien, Conor Cruise

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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

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

Gaines, Frank

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The best vision is insight.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Keller, Helen

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Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

Rand, Ayn

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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

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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

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So shine on through these days we have to fill.

John, Elton

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

Nightingale, Earl

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I always looked ahead.

Evert, Chris

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It's easy to say no! when there's a deeper yes! burning inside.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

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Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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

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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

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

Kaufman, Herbert

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Aim for the highest.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

Sarraute, Nathalie

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

Bradley, Omar Nelson

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Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Barker, Joel A.

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

Ross, Andrew

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Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

Walton, Sam

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

Collier, Robert

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Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So it is with people who sometimes cover up the entire disc of eternity with a dollar, and so quench transcendent glories with a little shining dust.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Paglia, Camille

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

James, Clive

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Three levels of organizational vision: 1. The Do-able 2. The Conceivable 3. The Previously Unthinkable.

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

Simpson, Homer

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

Kasem, Casey

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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

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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

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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 size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.

Marden, Orison Swett