Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

- Newton, Sir Isaac

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.

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.

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.

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

I always looked ahead.

Evert, Chris

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

Terkel, Studs

The kingdom of God could be realized simply by daring to live differently from the normal conventions. The kingdom of God in the teachings of Jesus was not an apocalyptic or heavenly projection of otherworldly desire. It was driven by a desire to think that there must be a better way to live together than the present state of affairs. And it called for a change of behavior in the present on the part of individuals invested in the vision.

Mack, Burton L.

Build it and they will come!

Movie, Fields Of Dreams

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

Brokaw, Tom

10.

TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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One eye sees, the other feels.

Klee, Paul

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The best vision is insight.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

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

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Barker, Joel A.

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Kovacs

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

Swindoll, Charles

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

Sawyer, Diane

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

Murrow, Edward R.

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

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Swift, Jonathan

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We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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You have to think big to be big.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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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

44.

Watching old movies is like spending an evening with those people next door. They bore us, and we wouldn't go out of our way to see them; we drop in on them because they're so close. If it took some effort to see old movies, we might try to find out which were the good ones, and if people saw only the good ones maybe they would still respect old movies. As it is, people sit and watch movies that audiences walked out on thirty years ago. Like Lot's wife, we are tempted to take another look, attracted not by evil but by something that seems much more shameful -- our own innocence.

Kael, Pauline

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Starr, Pamela Vaull

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

O'Brien, Conor Cruise

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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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Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

Paglia, Camille