Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

- Hitchcock, Alfred

Best Quotes about Vision

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

Terkel, Studs

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

O'Brien, Conor Cruise

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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.

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

James, Clive

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

Simpson, Homer

We lift ourselves by our thought. We climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always everywhere.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Proverb, Japanese

14.

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

Ford, Anna

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

Keller, Helen

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

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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

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Murrow, Edward R.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Television -- a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.

Kovacs

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

Brokaw, Tom

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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

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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

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

Paglia, Camille

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The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the character of seers. The Elgin Marbles and a decision of John Marshall are valued for the same reason. What we feel in them is a painstaking submission to facts beyond the author's control, and to ideas imposed upon him by his vision. So with Beethoven's Symphonies, with Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations -- with any conceivable output of the human mind of which you approve. You love them because you say, These things were not made, they were seen.

Chapman, John Jay

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To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Sawyer, Diane

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

Fox, Michael J.

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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

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I always looked ahead.

Evert, Chris

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

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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 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

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

Kasem, Casey

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

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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

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Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans. Aim high in hope and work. Remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

Burnham, Daniel H.

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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

47.

Build it and they will come!

Movie, Fields Of Dreams

48.

Faith is power to believe and power to see...

Mulford, Prentice

49.

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

Jung, Carl

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Aim for the highest.