Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

Best Quotes about Vision

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

Simpson, Homer

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

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

Ford, Anna

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.

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

Rather, Dan

To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest.

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

Gaines, Frank

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

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

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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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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the character of seers. The Elgin Marbles and a decision of John Marshall are valued for the same reason. What we feel in them is a painstaking submission to facts beyond the author's control, and to ideas imposed upon him by his vision. So with Beethoven's Symphonies, with Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations -- with any conceivable output of the human mind of which you approve. You love them because you say, These things were not made, they were seen.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Fox, Michael J.

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

Mumford, Lewis

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I always looked ahead.

Evert, Chris

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

Murrow, Edward R.

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

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

Kasem, Casey

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We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

Marden, Orison Swett

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If you want to look with only one eye then you will only see part of the picture.

Williams, Les

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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 only limits are, as always, those of vision.

Broughton, James

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For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Build it and they will come!

Movie, Fields Of Dreams

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Collier, Robert

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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One eye sees, the other feels.

Klee, Paul

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

Keller, Helen

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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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The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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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

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

Proverb, Czech.

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Aim for the highest.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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

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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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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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Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Starr, Pamela Vaull

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

Jung, Carl