Motivational Quotes

Vision

So shine on through these days we have to fill.

- John, Elton

Best Quotes about Vision

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

Blake, William

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

Proverb, Czech.

So shine on through these days we have to fill.

John, Elton

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Kaufman, Herbert

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

Fox, Michael J.

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

Gaines, Frank

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.

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.

10.

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

Terkel, Studs

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

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

Marx, Groucho

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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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The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

16.

Build it and they will come!

Movie, Fields Of Dreams

17.

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

18.

I always looked ahead.

Evert, Chris

19.

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

Ford, Anna

20.

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

Harriman, Edward H.

21.

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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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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Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Barker, Joel A.

24.

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

25.

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

James, Clive

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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

27.

No vision and you perish; No Ideal, and you're lost; Your heart must ever cherish Some faith at any cost. Some hope, some dream to cling to, Some rainbow in the sky, Some melody to sing to, Some service that is high.

Autermont, Harriet Du

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

Miller, Henry

29.

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

Barker, Joel A.

30.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Davies, Robertson

31.

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

32.

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.

33.

Three people were at work on a construction site. All were doing the same job, but when each was asked what the job was, the answers varied. Breaking rocks, the first replied. Earning my living, the second said. Helping to build a cathedral, said the third.

Schultz, Peter

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Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Mumford, Lewis

36.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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

38.

I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the Promised Land.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Ross, Andrew

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The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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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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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

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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

45.

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

46.

TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Bible

48.

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

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

Allen, Charles L.

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

Jung, Carl