Motivational Quotes

Vision

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Vision

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

Wise, Stephen S.

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

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

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

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.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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.

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

11.

Aim for the highest.

Carnegie, Andrew

12.

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

Murrow, Edward R.

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

Swindoll, Charles

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

Broughton, James

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

Brokaw, Tom

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

Jung, Carl

19.

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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Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Davies, Robertson

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Kaufman, Herbert

24.

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

25.

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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Build it and they will come!

Movie, Fields Of Dreams

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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.

30.

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

31.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

32.

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

Terkel, Studs

33.

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Barker, Joel A.

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For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections.

Pilgrim, Peace

36.

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

Kaplan, Justin

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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

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The best vision is insight.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

40.

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

Blake, William

41.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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.

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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.

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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

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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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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

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

Fox, Michael J.

48.

So shine on through these days we have to fill.

John, Elton

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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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Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Swift, Jonathan