Motivational Quotes

Vision

Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.

- Baudrillard, Jean

Best Quotes about Vision

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

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Rand, Ayn

People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.

Sawyer, Diane

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

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

Rather, Dan

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

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

Television is an excellent system when one has nothing to lose, as is the case with a nomadic and rootless country like the United States, but in Europe the affect of television is that of a bulldozer which reduces culture to the lowest possible denominator.

Fumaroli, Marc

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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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

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Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.

Smiles, Samuel

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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.

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The man with vision always goes ahead of the man with visions.

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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

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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

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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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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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Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Davies, Robertson

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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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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

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

Swindoll, Charles

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The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn't there something reassuring about it! -- that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another's eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms -- nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?

Oates, Joyce Carol

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Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare.

Proverb, Japanese

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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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Baudrillard, Jean

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The best vision is insight.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened. Rostropovich was playing his cello by the Wall that no longer cast a shadow, and a million East Berliners were thronging to the West to shop with an allowance given them by West German banks! At that moment the whole world saw how materialism had lost its awesome historic power and become a shopping list.

Berger, John

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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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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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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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I want to use television not only to entertain, but to help people lead better lives.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Fox, Michael J.

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When you go to buy, use your eyes not your ears.

Proverb, Czech.

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Where there is no vision, the people perish. [Proverbs 29:18]

Bible

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

Harriman, Edward H.

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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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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

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TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

Marden, Orison Swett

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No vision and you perish; No Ideal, and you're lost; Your heart must ever cherish Some faith at any cost. Some hope, some dream to cling to, Some rainbow in the sky, Some melody to sing to, Some service that is high.

Autermont, Harriet Du

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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

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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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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

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Kaplan, Justin

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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.