Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

Best Quotes about Vision

I always looked ahead.

Evert, Chris

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

Keller, Helen

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

Murrow, Edward R.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Proverb, Japanese

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

Paglia, Camille

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

Day, Sir Robin

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

Mulford, Prentice

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

Nightingale, Earl

10.

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

11.

One eye sees, the other feels.

Klee, Paul

12.

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

Kaplan, Justin

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

Smiles, Samuel

15.

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

Fox, Michael J.

16.

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

17.

When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.

Swindoll, Charles

18.

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

19.

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

Brande, Dorothea

20.

If you want to look with only one eye then you will only see part of the picture.

Williams, Les

21.

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

22.

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

Picasso, Pablo

23.

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

24.

I know my fate. One day there will be associated with my name the recollection of something frightful -- of a crisis like no other before on earth, of the profoundest collision of conscience, of a decision evoked against everything that until then had been believed in, demanded, sanctified. I am not a man I am dynamite.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

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

Hill, Napoleon

26.

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

27.

The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

Marden, Orison Swett

28.

Build it and they will come!

Movie, Fields Of Dreams

29.

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

Broughton, James

30.

TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Davies, Robertson

35.

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

Terkel, Studs

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

41.

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

Ross, Andrew

42.

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

43.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

44.

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.

45.

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

46.

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

Miller, Henry

47.

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

48.

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

Jung, Carl

49.

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

50.

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