Motivational Quotes

Vision

I always looked ahead.

- Evert, Chris

Best Quotes about Vision

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

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

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Broughton, James

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

Paglia, Camille

You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles -- events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.

Browne, Harry

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

Harriman, Edward H.

What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his place is and may be. He needs an objective and a purpose. He needs a feeling and a belief that he has some worthwhile thing to do. What this is no one can tell him. It must be his own creation. Its success will be measured by the nature of his vision, what he has done to equip himself, and how well he has performed along the line of its development.

Dodge, Joseph M.

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

Smiles, Samuel

10.

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

Terkel, Studs

11.

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

12.

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

Gaines, Frank

13.

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.

14.

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

Churchill, Winston

15.

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

Starr, Pamela Vaull

16.

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

17.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

19.

Aim for the highest.

Carnegie, Andrew

20.

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

Proverb, Czech.

21.

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.

22.

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

Sawyer, Diane

23.

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

Jung, Carl

24.

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

Kasem, Casey

25.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

26.

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

27.

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's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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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.

30.

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

31.

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

James, Clive

33.

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

Kaufman, Herbert

34.

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

35.

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.

36.

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

37.

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.

38.

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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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.

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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

41.

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

42.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

43.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Swift, Jonathan

44.

TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

45.

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

46.

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

47.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

48.

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

49.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred