Motivational Quotes

Vision

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Vision

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

Walton, Sam

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

Blake, William

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

Broughton, James

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

Pilgrim, Peace

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

Bradley, Omar Nelson

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

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

Marden, Orison Swett

I always looked ahead.

Evert, Chris

Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in the long run all sights may lose whatever rarity value they once possessed, and it may well turn out that people, being able to see and hear practically everything, will be specially interested in almost nothing.

White, Elwyn Brooks

10.

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

11.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

12.

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

13.

The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

Marden, Orison Swett

14.

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

15.

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

Gaines, Frank

16.

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

Murrow, Edward R.

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Marx, Groucho

20.

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

21.

There are lone figures armed only with ideas, sometimes with just one idea, who blast away whole epochs in which we are enwrapped like mummies. Some are powerful enough to resurrect the dead. Some steal on us unawares and put a spell over us which it takes centuries to throw off. Some put a curse on us, for our stupidity and inertia, and then it seems as if God himself were unable to lift it.

Miller, Henry

22.

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.

23.

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.

24.

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

Ross, Andrew

25.

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

Rather, Dan

26.

Television -- a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.

Kovacs

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Jung, Carl

32.

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

James, Clive

33.

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

Allen, Charles L.

34.

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

35.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

36.

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

Paglia, Camille

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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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What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his place is and may be. He needs an objective and a purpose. He needs a feeling and a belief that he has some worthwhile thing to do. What this is no one can tell him. It must be his own creation. Its success will be measured by the nature of his vision, what he has done to equip himself, and how well he has performed along the line of its development.

Dodge, Joseph M.

42.

You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles -- events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.

Browne, Harry

43.

The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the character of seers. The Elgin Marbles and a decision of John Marshall are valued for the same reason. What we feel in them is a painstaking submission to facts beyond the author's control, and to ideas imposed upon him by his vision. So with Beethoven's Symphonies, with Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations -- with any conceivable output of the human mind of which you approve. You love them because you say, These things were not made, they were seen.

Chapman, John Jay

44.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

45.

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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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

47.

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

Williams, Les

48.

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

49.

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

Mumford, Lewis

50.

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

Picasso, Pablo