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

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.

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

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

Bradley, Omar Nelson

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

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

Day, Sir Robin

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

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

Allen, Charles L.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Barker, Joel A.

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The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Bible

13.

Some men see things as they are and say, Why? I of dream things that never were, and say, Why not?

Shaw, George Bernard

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Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in the long run all sights may lose whatever rarity value they once possessed, and it may well turn out that people, being able to see and hear practically everything, will be specially interested in almost nothing.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Barker, Joel A.

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

Keller, Helen

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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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Kovacs

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Sawyer, Diane

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Kaplan, Justin

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Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Davies, Robertson

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

Mulford, Prentice

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

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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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If I have seen further... it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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

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

Terkel, Studs

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You have to think big to be big.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Ford, Anna

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Harriman, Edward H.

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Baudrillard, Jean