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

Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Harriman, Edward H.

I always looked ahead.

Evert, Chris

The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Kasem, Casey

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

Bible

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Murrow, Edward R.

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

Blake, William

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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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

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

Simpson, Homer

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So shine on through these days we have to fill.

John, Elton

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

Collier, Robert

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

Proverb, Japanese

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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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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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Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

Walton, Sam

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

Kaplan, Justin

29.

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

Sawyer, Diane

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Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision, but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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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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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

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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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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.

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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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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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St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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One eye sees, the other feels.

Klee, Paul

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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.

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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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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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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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The best vision is insight.

Forbes, Malcolm S.