Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Vision

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

Murrow, Edward R.

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

Starr, Pamela Vaull

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

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

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Davies, Robertson

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

James, Clive

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

O'Brien, Conor Cruise

Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Barker, Joel A.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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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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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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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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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

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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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One eye sees, the other feels.

Klee, Paul

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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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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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We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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

Ford, Anna

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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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The best vision is insight.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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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You have to think big to be big.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

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

Kasem, Casey

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Glezer, Frederic

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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.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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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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TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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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

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The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.

Mailer, Norman

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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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In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Fox, Michael J.

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The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.