Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

Best Quotes about Vision

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

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

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

Swindoll, Charles

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

Its marvelous what you can see when you open your eyes.

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

Mulford, Prentice

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

Collier, Robert

Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Mumford, Lewis

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One eye sees, the other feels.

Klee, Paul

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

Kaufman, Herbert

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You have to think big to be big.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision, but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.

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

Gaines, Frank

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

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

O'Brien, Conor Cruise

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

Kasem, Casey

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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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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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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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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 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

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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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Build it and they will come!

Movie, Fields Of Dreams

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

Allen, Charles L.

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

Miller, Henry

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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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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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Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Barker, Joel A.

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Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Terkel, Studs

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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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TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Kovacs

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

Churchill, Winston