Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

- Bradley, Omar Nelson

Best Quotes about Vision

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

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.

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

Kovacs

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.

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

Ford, Anna

What do a few lies on TV matter? They can be swallowed, digested and excreted, or follow people when they doze off to sink into oblivion.

Zhang Jie

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

Kasem, Casey

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

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

Bible

10.

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

Broughton, James

11.

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

12.

Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

13.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing -- where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.

15.

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

16.

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

Smiles, Samuel

17.

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

Wise, Stephen S.

18.

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

19.

The most puzzling thing about TV is the steady advance of the sponsor across the line that has always separated news from promotion, entertainment from merchandising. The advertiser has assumed the role of originator, and the performer has gradually been eased into the role of peddler.

White, Elwyn Brooks

20.

The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.

Ross, Andrew

21.

Dwell in though upon the Grandest, And the Grandest you shall see; Fix your mind upon the Highest, And the Highest you shall be.

22.

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

Murrow, Edward R.

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Harriman, Edward H.

27.

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

28.

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

Terkel, Studs

29.

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.

30.

Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones.

Kaufman, Herbert

31.

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

32.

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

Paglia, Camille

33.

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

Bradley, Omar Nelson

34.

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.

35.

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

36.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Davies, Robertson

37.

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

Miller, Henry

38.

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

Walton, Sam

39.

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

40.

So shine on through these days we have to fill.

John, Elton

41.

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

Williams, Les

42.

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

43.

The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

Marden, Orison Swett

44.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

45.

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

Mumford, Lewis

46.

The best vision is insight.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

47.

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

48.

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

Mulford, Prentice

49.

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

50.

Aim for the highest.

Carnegie, Andrew