Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

- James, Clive

Best Quotes about Vision

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

Mumford, Lewis

The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Gaines, Frank

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

Wise, Stephen S.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Blake, William

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Rather, Dan

13.

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.

14.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

15.

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

Jung, Carl

16.

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

Glezer, Frederic

17.

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

18.

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

Rand, Ayn

19.

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Alcott, Louisa May

20.

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

Kasem, Casey

21.

Nine-tenths of our sickness can be prevented by right thinking plus right hygiene -- nine-tenths of it!

Miller, Henry

22.

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

Brokaw, Tom

23.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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.

25.

What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his place is and may be. He needs an objective and a purpose. He needs a feeling and a belief that he has some worthwhile thing to do. What this is no one can tell him. It must be his own creation. Its success will be measured by the nature of his vision, what he has done to equip himself, and how well he has performed along the line of its development.

Dodge, Joseph M.

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

O'Brien, Conor Cruise

27.

TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

28.

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

29.

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

Allen, Charles L.

30.

Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing...

Collier, Robert

31.

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

32.

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

Barker, Joel A.

33.

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

Smiles, Samuel

34.

To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest.

35.

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

Kaufman, Herbert

36.

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

Broughton, James

37.

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

Marx, Groucho

38.

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

Bradley, Omar Nelson

39.

If I have seen further... it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Newton, Sir Isaac

40.

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

41.

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

Proverb, Czech.

42.

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

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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

44.

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

Day, Sir Robin

45.

So shine on through these days we have to fill.

John, Elton

46.

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 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.

48.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

49.

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

50.

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

Terkel, Studs