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

You have to think big to be big.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

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

A three -- to four -- to five-hour experience with nothingness.

Glezer, Frederic

I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.

Schwab, Charles M.

Let's face it, there are no plain women on television.

Ford, Anna

The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.

Marden, Orison Swett

To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

10.

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

11.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

12.

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

Jung, Carl

13.

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

14.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Davies, Robertson

15.

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.

16.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

17.

TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

18.

You have to see the pattern, understand the order and experience the vision.

Gerber, Michael E.

19.

Cherish you visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate achievements.

Hill, Napoleon

20.

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

21.

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

Williams, Les

22.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

23.

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

O'Brien, Conor Cruise

24.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

25.

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

Day, Sir Robin

26.

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

Picasso, Pablo

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

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

Sawyer, Diane

30.

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

31.

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

Proverb, Czech.

32.

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

33.

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

Proverb, Japanese

34.

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

Churchill, Winston

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Simpson, Homer

38.

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

39.

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

Fox, Michael J.

40.

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

41.

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

Kovacs

42.

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

43.

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

Marx, Groucho

44.

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

Murrow, Edward R.

45.

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

Terkel, Studs

46.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

47.

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

48.

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.

49.

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

50.

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