Motivational Quotes

Vision

When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.

- Blake, William

Best Quotes about Vision

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

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

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

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.

It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

Eliot, T. S.

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

Broughton, James

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

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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 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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Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Proverb, Japanese

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

Nightingale, Earl

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I always looked ahead.

Evert, Chris

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

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

Bible

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

Jung, Carl

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

Starr, Pamela Vaull

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

Gaines, Frank

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

Glezer, Frederic

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

Proverb, Czech.

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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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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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A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without a vision is drudgery. A vision with a task is the hope of the world.

Zimmerman, Donald

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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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Watching old movies is like spending an evening with those people next door. They bore us, and we wouldn't go out of our way to see them; we drop in on them because they're so close. If it took some effort to see old movies, we might try to find out which were the good ones, and if people saw only the good ones maybe they would still respect old movies. As it is, people sit and watch movies that audiences walked out on thirty years ago. Like Lot's wife, we are tempted to take another look, attracted not by evil but by something that seems much more shameful -- our own innocence.

Kael, Pauline

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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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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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Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

Walton, Sam

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Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Barker, Joel A.

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So shine on through these days we have to fill.

John, Elton

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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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Already we Viewers, when not viewing, have begun to whisper to one another that the more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

Priestley, J. B.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Mulford, Prentice

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

Shaw, George Bernard