Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Vision

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

Terkel, Studs

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

Schwab, Charles M.

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.

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

O'Brien, Conor Cruise

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

Pilgrim, Peace

So shine on through these days we have to fill.

John, Elton

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.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Swindoll, Charles

10.

There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.

Baudrillard, Jean

11.

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

12.

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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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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Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Swift, Jonathan

15.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Miller, Henry

20.

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

Kasem, Casey

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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

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

Brande, Dorothea

24.

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

Fox, Michael J.

25.

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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Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Barker, Joel A.

27.

The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

Marden, Orison Swett

28.

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

Rather, Dan

29.

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

Sawyer, Diane

30.

Some men see things as they are and say, Why? I of dream things that never were, and say, Why not?

Shaw, George Bernard

31.

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

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Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Davies, Robertson

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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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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.

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

Kovacs

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

Williams, Les

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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

40.

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

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

Bible

43.

Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.

Murdoch, Rupert

44.

If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press.

Turner, Ed

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

48.

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

Broughton, James

49.

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