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

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

Kaplan, Justin

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

I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book.

Marx, Groucho

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

Collier, Robert

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

Pilgrim, Peace

The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

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.

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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

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

Broughton, James

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Wise, Stephen S.

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No vision and you perish; No Ideal, and you're lost; Your heart must ever cherish Some faith at any cost. Some hope, some dream to cling to, Some rainbow in the sky, Some melody to sing to, Some service that is high.

Autermont, Harriet Du

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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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Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Bible

20.

The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.

Brokaw, Tom

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

Sawyer, Diane

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

Swindoll, Charles

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

James, Clive

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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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

31.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Allen, Charles L.

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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

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Proverb, Czech.

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Build it and they will come!

Movie, Fields Of Dreams

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I want to use television not only to entertain, but to help people lead better lives.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

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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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Three levels of organizational vision: 1. The Do-able 2. The Conceivable 3. The Previously Unthinkable.

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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

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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.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas