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

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

Better to aim at a star than shoot down a well; you'll hit higher.

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

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

Churchill, Winston

We need to give ourselves permission to act out our dreams and visions, not look for more sensations, more phenomena, but live our strongest dreams -- even if it takes a lifetime.

Hamilton, Vijali

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

Ford, Anna

The best vision is insight.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Bible

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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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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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Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Barker, Joel A.

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

Collier, Robert

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

Fox, Michael J.

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

Wise, Stephen S.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Kovacs

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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Miller, Henry

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

Kasem, Casey

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

Murrow, Edward R.

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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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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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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.

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So shine on through these days we have to fill.

John, Elton

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Aim for the highest.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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

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

Brokaw, Tom

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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I know my fate. One day there will be associated with my name the recollection of something frightful -- of a crisis like no other before on earth, of the profoundest collision of conscience, of a decision evoked against everything that until then had been believed in, demanded, sanctified. I am not a man I am dynamite.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.

Mumford, Lewis

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The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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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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I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

42.

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

43.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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Build it and they will come!

Movie, Fields Of Dreams

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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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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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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

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Swindoll, Charles