Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

- Gaines, Frank

Best Quotes about Vision

Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in the long run all sights may lose whatever rarity value they once possessed, and it may well turn out that people, being able to see and hear practically everything, will be specially interested in almost nothing.

White, Elwyn Brooks

TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.

Brokaw, Tom

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

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

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.

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

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Let's face it, there are no plain women on television.

Ford, Anna

10.

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

Marx, Groucho

11.

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.

12.

All successful people are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Tracy, Brian

13.

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

James, Clive

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

16.

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

Mumford, Lewis

17.

Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching.

Lebowitz, Fran

18.

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

Rather, Dan

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

O'Brien, Conor Cruise

22.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

23.

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

Wise, Stephen S.

24.

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

25.

When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.

Blake, William

26.

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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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

28.

I always looked ahead.

Evert, Chris

29.

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

30.

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

Picasso, Pablo

31.

The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

Marden, Orison Swett

32.

You have to think big to be big.

Bristol, Claude M.

33.

So shine on through these days we have to fill.

John, Elton

34.

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

35.

One eye sees, the other feels.

Klee, Paul

36.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

37.

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

Marden, Orison Swett

38.

Build it and they will come!

Movie, Fields Of Dreams

39.

Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Barker, Joel A.

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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.

41.

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

Walton, Sam

42.

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

Terkel, Studs

43.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

44.

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

Kaufman, Herbert

45.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

46.

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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Television, despite its enormous presence, turns out to have added pitifully few lines to the communal memory.

Kaplan, Justin

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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 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

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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