Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Vision

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your Living room by people you wouldn't have in your house.

Frost, David

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

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

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

Collier, Robert

Its marvelous what you can see when you open your eyes.

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

Kaplan, Justin

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

Bradley, Omar Nelson

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

Blake, William

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

10.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

11.

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

12.

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

Smiles, Samuel

14.

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

Jung, Carl

16.

So shine on through these days we have to fill.

John, Elton

17.

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

Allen, Charles L.

18.

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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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.

20.

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

O'Brien, Conor Cruise

21.

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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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

23.

One eye sees, the other feels.

Klee, Paul

24.

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

26.

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

Gaines, Frank

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

Kasem, Casey

28.

So by all means let's have a television show quick and long, even if the commercial has to be delivered by a man in a white coat with a stethoscope hanging around his neck, selling ergot pills. After all the public is entitled to what it wants, isn't it? The Romans knew that and even they lasted four hundred years after they started to putrefy.

Chandler, Raymond

29.

Build it and they will come!

Movie, Fields Of Dreams

30.

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

31.

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

Terkel, Studs

32.

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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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.

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

Murrow, Edward R.

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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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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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Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Barker, Joel A.

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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

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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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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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Cherish you visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate achievements.

Hill, Napoleon

42.

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

Fox, Michael J.

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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.

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

45.

I always looked ahead.

Evert, Chris

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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

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Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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A three -- to four -- to five-hour experience with nothingness.