Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

- O'Brien, Conor Cruise

Best Quotes about Vision

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Miller, Henry

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.

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

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

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

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

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

Harriman, Edward H.

11.

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

12.

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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I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Ford, Anna

15.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

16.

So shine on through these days we have to fill.

John, Elton

17.

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

18.

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

19.

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

Blake, William

20.

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

Terkel, Studs

21.

Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.

Gaines, Frank

22.

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.

23.

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

Brokaw, Tom

25.

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

Nightingale, Earl

26.

Already we Viewers, when not viewing, have begun to whisper to one another that the more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

Priestley, J. B.

27.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

28.

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

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

O'Brien, Conor Cruise

31.

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

32.

Aim for the highest.

Carnegie, Andrew

33.

Build it and they will come!

Movie, Fields Of Dreams

34.

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

Rather, Dan

35.

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

Murrow, Edward R.

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

Simpson, Homer

37.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Davies, Robertson

38.

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

Swindoll, Charles

39.

Vision looks inwards and becomes duty. Vision looks outwards and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upwards and becomes faith.

Wise, Stephen S.

40.

You have to think big to be big.

Bristol, Claude M.

41.

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

Mumford, Lewis

42.

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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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

44.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

45.

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.

46.

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

47.

The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

Marden, Orison Swett

48.

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.

49.

The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring this endeavor will light our bounty and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.

Kennedy, John F.

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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.