Motivational Quotes

Vision

The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring this endeavor will light our bounty and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Vision

Already we Viewers, when not viewing, have begun to whisper to one another that the more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

Priestley, J. B.

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

Terkel, Studs

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Build it and they will come!

Movie, Fields Of Dreams

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

James, Clive

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

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your Living room by people you wouldn't have in your house.

Frost, David

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

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

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

Barker, Joel A.

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The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring this endeavor will light our bounty and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.

Kennedy, John F.

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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 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

15.

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

Allen, Charles L.

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

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

Fox, Michael J.

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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

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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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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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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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What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdad's of his dreams to rise from the dust.

Dali, Salvador

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

Proverb, Czech.

25.

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

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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

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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

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

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

Harriman, Edward H.

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

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

Sawyer, Diane

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Simpson, Homer

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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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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

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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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Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Starr, Pamela Vaull

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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

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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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One eye sees, the other feels.

Klee, Paul

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A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Rather, Dan

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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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So shine on through these days we have to fill.

John, Elton

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Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Barker, Joel A.

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

Mumford, Lewis

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Cherish you visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate achievements.