Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

Best Quotes about Vision

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

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

Fox, Michael J.

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

Mumford, Lewis

If I have seen further... it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Newton, Sir Isaac

Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.

James, Clive

TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

One eye sees, the other feels.

Klee, Paul

10.

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.

11.

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

Smiles, Samuel

12.

So shine on through these days we have to fill.

John, Elton

13.

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.

14.

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

15.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

16.

People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.

Sawyer, Diane

17.

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

Rather, Dan

18.

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

19.

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

Miller, Henry

20.

We lift ourselves by our thought. We climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always everywhere.

Marden, Orison Swett

21.

Three people were at work on a construction site. All were doing the same job, but when each was asked what the job was, the answers varied. Breaking rocks, the first replied. Earning my living, the second said. Helping to build a cathedral, said the third.

Schultz, Peter

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

24.

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

25.

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

Terkel, Studs

26.

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

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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.

28.

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

Murrow, Edward R.

29.

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

Starr, Pamela Vaull

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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

31.

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Swindoll, Charles

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

Bradley, Omar Nelson

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The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting like everything else, is that not the evidence that it has been properly cooked?

Raphael, Frederic

36.

You have to see the pattern, understand the order and experience the vision.

Gerber, Michael E.

37.

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

Gaines, Frank

39.

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

40.

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.

41.

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

Marden, Orison Swett

42.

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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Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened. Rostropovich was playing his cello by the Wall that no longer cast a shadow, and a million East Berliners were thronging to the West to shop with an allowance given them by West German banks! At that moment the whole world saw how materialism had lost its awesome historic power and become a shopping list.

Berger, John

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

Churchill, Winston

45.

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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Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.

Murdoch, Rupert

47.

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.

48.

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

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

Ross, Andrew