Motivational Quotes

Vision

Television is an excellent system when one has nothing to lose, as is the case with a nomadic and rootless country like the United States, but in Europe the affect of television is that of a bulldozer which reduces culture to the lowest possible denominator.

- Fumaroli, Marc

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

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

Rand, Ayn

The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.

Ross, Andrew

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

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

Proverb, Japanese

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

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

Simpson, Homer

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Three levels of organizational vision: 1. The Do-able 2. The Conceivable 3. The Previously Unthinkable.

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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.

16.

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

17.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

Build it and they will come!

Movie, Fields Of Dreams

21.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

22.

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.

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

Walton, Sam

26.

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

Jung, Carl

27.

Vision looks inwards and becomes duty. Vision looks outwards and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upwards and becomes faith.

Wise, Stephen S.

28.

I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.

Carlyle, Thomas

29.

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

Brande, Dorothea

30.

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

31.

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

Mumford, Lewis

32.

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

33.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

34.

So shine on through these days we have to fill.

John, Elton

35.

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

Gaines, Frank

36.

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

37.

You have to think big to be big.

Bristol, Claude M.

38.

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

39.

The road winds up the hill to meet the height; Beyond the locust hedge it curves from sight -- And yet no man would foolishly contend. That where he sees it not, it makes an end.

Carleton, Emma

40.

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

41.

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

Bradley, Omar Nelson

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

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

Glezer, Frederic

45.

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

Kasem, Casey

46.

Fumaroli, Marc

47.

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

48.

The best vision is insight.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

49.

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

Kaufman, Herbert

50.

I always looked ahead.

Evert, Chris