Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Vision

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.

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

Terkel, Studs

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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Harriman, Edward H.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

Rand, Ayn

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

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

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

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

James, Clive

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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I always looked ahead.

Evert, Chris

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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

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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

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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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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

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Aim for the highest.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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

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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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Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Allen, Charles L.

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All successful people are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Tracy, Brian

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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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

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

Keller, Helen

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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

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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So shine on through these days we have to fill.

John, Elton

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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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The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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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.

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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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The best vision is insight.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Mumford, Lewis

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

Bible

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Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching.

Lebowitz, Fran

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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

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

Kasem, Casey

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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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The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell