Motivational Quotes

Vision

Aim for the highest.

- Carnegie, Andrew

Best Quotes about Vision

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

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

Marx, Groucho

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

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

Blake, William

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

Ford, Anna

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

I always looked ahead.

Evert, Chris

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

Brokaw, Tom

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Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

Walton, Sam

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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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Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Davies, Robertson

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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

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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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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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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

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

Proverb, Czech.

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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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Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

Sarraute, Nathalie

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

Kaplan, Justin

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Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

Rand, Ayn

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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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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

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

Harriman, Edward H.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Glezer, Frederic

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So shine on through these days we have to fill.

John, Elton

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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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Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Williams, Les

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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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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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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

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The answers to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle, they're on TV!

Simpson, Homer

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

Terkel, Studs

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Proverb, Japanese

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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