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

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

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

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Kaplan, Justin

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

Proverb, Japanese

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without a vision is drudgery. A vision with a task is the hope of the world.

Zimmerman, Donald

11.

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

Broughton, James

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

Murrow, Edward R.

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We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Day, Sir Robin

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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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The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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You have to think big to be big.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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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

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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

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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.

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

Bible

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

James, Clive

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Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Swift, Jonathan

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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.

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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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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

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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

32.

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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If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press.

Turner, Ed

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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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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

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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

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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 great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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

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When it comes to spotting a blonde hair on a man's coat, every wife has 20-20 vision.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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

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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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It's easy to say no! when there's a deeper yes! burning inside.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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

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

Hitchcock, Alfred