Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

- Day, Sir Robin

Best Quotes about Vision

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

Proverb, Czech.

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

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

Kaufman, Herbert

I always looked ahead.

Evert, Chris

Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Barker, Joel A.

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

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Starr, Pamela Vaull

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

Allen, Charles L.

10.

Cherish you visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate achievements.

Hill, Napoleon

11.

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

Broughton, James

12.

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

Glezer, Frederic

13.

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

Keller, Helen

14.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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

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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

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Better to aim at a star than shoot down a well; you'll hit higher.

19.

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

20.

Vision -- It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

Collier, Robert

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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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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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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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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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

27.

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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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

29.

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

Smiles, Samuel

30.

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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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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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

33.

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

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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.

35.

So shine on through these days we have to fill.

John, Elton

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

Swindoll, Charles

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

Terkel, Studs

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

Bible

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

Covey, Stephen R.

45.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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One eye sees, the other feels.

Klee, Paul

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

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Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Davies, Robertson

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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