Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

- Muggeridge, Malcolm

Best Quotes about Vision

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

Kaufman, Herbert

We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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

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

Ross, Andrew

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

Broughton, James

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

Allen, Charles L.

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

TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.

Brokaw, Tom

10.

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

Harriman, Edward H.

11.

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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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

17.

TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

18.

So shine on through these days we have to fill.

John, Elton

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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

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

Jung, Carl

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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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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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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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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I always looked ahead.

Evert, Chris

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

Fox, Michael J.

27.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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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.

29.

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

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Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

Sarraute, Nathalie

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

Kasem, Casey

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Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Swift, Jonathan

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

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

Glezer, Frederic

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

Proverb, Czech.

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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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When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.

Swindoll, Charles

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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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Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

Walton, Sam

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

Miller, Henry

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

Rather, Dan

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

Keller, Helen

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One eye sees, the other feels.

Klee, Paul