Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

Best Quotes about Vision

Aim for the highest.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

James, Clive

One eye sees, the other feels.

Klee, Paul

Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Barker, Joel A.

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

Mumford, Lewis

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

Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.

Kasem, Casey

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

Nightingale, Earl

10.

Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.

O'Brien, Conor Cruise

11.

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.

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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

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

Murrow, Edward R.

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The best vision is insight.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Kovacs

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

Proverb, Czech.

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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

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We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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

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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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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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The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bradley, Omar Nelson

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Williams, Les

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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

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

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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

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You have to think big to be big.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Day, Sir Robin

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Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing...

Collier, Robert

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

Wise, Stephen S.

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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

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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

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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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Television is an excellent system when one has nothing to lose, as is the case with a nomadic and rootless country like the United States, but in Europe the affect of television is that of a bulldozer which reduces culture to the lowest possible denominator.

Fumaroli, Marc

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

Shaw, George Bernard

43.

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

Sawyer, Diane

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

Kaufman, Herbert

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

Allen, Charles L.

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The man with vision always goes ahead of the man with visions.

48.

If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press.

Turner, Ed

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

Bible

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The road winds up the hill to meet the height; Beyond the locust hedge it curves from sight -- And yet no man would foolishly contend. That where he sees it not, it makes an end.

Carleton, Emma