Motivational Quotes

Vision

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.

Best Quotes about Vision

Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big?

Allen, Charles L.

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

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

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

I always looked ahead.

Evert, Chris

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Davies, Robertson

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

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Mulford, Prentice

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Swift, Jonathan

13.

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

Mumford, Lewis

14.

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

Keller, Helen

15.

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

Marx, Groucho

16.

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

Broughton, James

17.

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

18.

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

Proverb, Czech.

19.

There are lone figures armed only with ideas, sometimes with just one idea, who blast away whole epochs in which we are enwrapped like mummies. Some are powerful enough to resurrect the dead. Some steal on us unawares and put a spell over us which it takes centuries to throw off. Some put a curse on us, for our stupidity and inertia, and then it seems as if God himself were unable to lift it.

Miller, Henry

20.

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

Smiles, Samuel

21.

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

22.

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.

23.

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

24.

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

25.

TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

26.

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

27.

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

Rand, Ayn

28.

One eye sees, the other feels.

Klee, Paul

29.

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

Sawyer, Diane

30.

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

31.

Dwell in though upon the Grandest, And the Grandest you shall see; Fix your mind upon the Highest, And the Highest you shall be.

32.

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

Picasso, Pablo

33.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Murrow, Edward R.

38.

Television is becoming a collage -- there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.

Hockney, David

39.

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

Rather, Dan

40.

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

Churchill, Winston

41.

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

Jung, Carl

42.

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

Glezer, Frederic

43.

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

Ross, Andrew

44.

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

45.

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

Fox, Michael J.

46.

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

Walton, Sam

47.

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

48.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

49.

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

Blake, William

50.

Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.

Sade, Marquis De