Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

- Hitchcock, Alfred

Best Quotes about Vision

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

Blake, William

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Harriman, Edward H.

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

Kasem, Casey

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Simpson, Homer

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Sawyer, Diane

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

Brokaw, Tom

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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

11.

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

12.

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

13.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Davies, Robertson

14.

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

15.

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

Fox, Michael J.

16.

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

Smiles, Samuel

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

O'Brien, Conor Cruise

21.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

22.

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

Gaines, Frank

23.

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

Day, Sir Robin

24.

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.

25.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

26.

So shine on through these days we have to fill.

John, Elton

27.

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

Proverb, Czech.

28.

I always looked ahead.

Evert, Chris

29.

Aim for the highest.

Carnegie, Andrew

30.

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

Nightingale, Earl

31.

It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp.

Ullman, James Ramsey

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Keller, Helen

35.

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

Hill, Napoleon

36.

The kingdom of God could be realized simply by daring to live differently from the normal conventions. The kingdom of God in the teachings of Jesus was not an apocalyptic or heavenly projection of otherworldly desire. It was driven by a desire to think that there must be a better way to live together than the present state of affairs. And it called for a change of behavior in the present on the part of individuals invested in the vision.

Mack, Burton L.

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Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.

Baudrillard, Jean

38.

The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting like everything else, is that not the evidence that it has been properly cooked?

Raphael, Frederic

39.

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

Paglia, Camille

40.

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

Ross, Andrew

41.

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

Glezer, Frederic

42.

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

Kaufman, Herbert

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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

44.

The obscure we see eventually, the completely apparent takes longer.

Murrow, Edward R.

45.

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

46.

TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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