Motivational Quotes

Vision

It's easy to say no! when there's a deeper yes! burning inside.

- Covey, Stephen R.

Best Quotes about Vision

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

Mumford, Lewis

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.

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

Harriman, Edward H.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

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

Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Barker, Joel A.

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.

10.

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

11.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

Keller, Helen

12.

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

James, Clive

13.

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.

14.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.

Jung, Carl

15.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

17.

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

Miller, Henry

18.

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

Fox, Michael J.

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

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

Kaufman, Herbert

23.

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the Promised Land.

King Jr. Martin Luther

25.

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

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

Williams, Les

28.

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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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.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

33.

One eye sees, the other feels.

Klee, Paul

34.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Swift, Jonathan

35.

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

Terkel, Studs

38.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Davies, Robertson

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I know my fate. One day there will be associated with my name the recollection of something frightful -- of a crisis like no other before on earth, of the profoundest collision of conscience, of a decision evoked against everything that until then had been believed in, demanded, sanctified. I am not a man I am dynamite.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion.

Brande, Dorothea

42.

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

Collier, Robert

43.

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

Rather, Dan

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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

46.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

48.

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

Allen, Charles L.

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