Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

- Proverb, Czech.

Best Quotes about Vision

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

Allen, Charles L.

Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Barker, Joel A.

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

Gaines, Frank

Build it and they will come!

Movie, Fields Of Dreams

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

I always looked ahead.

Evert, Chris

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

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

10.

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

O'Brien, Conor Cruise

12.

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

Kasem, Casey

13.

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

Keller, Helen

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

Simpson, Homer

15.

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 is an excellent system when one has nothing to lose, as is the case with a nomadic and rootless country like the United States, but in Europe the affect of television is that of a bulldozer which reduces culture to the lowest possible denominator.

Fumaroli, Marc

17.

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

18.

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

Murrow, Edward R.

19.

Faith is power to believe and power to see...

Mulford, Prentice

20.

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

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

Swindoll, Charles

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

Glezer, Frederic

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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

25.

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

Terkel, Studs

26.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

27.

TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

28.

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

Hill, Napoleon

29.

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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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.

31.

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

Nightingale, Earl

32.

So shine on through these days we have to fill.

John, Elton

33.

Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened. Rostropovich was playing his cello by the Wall that no longer cast a shadow, and a million East Berliners were thronging to the West to shop with an allowance given them by West German banks! At that moment the whole world saw how materialism had lost its awesome historic power and become a shopping list.

Berger, John

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You have to think big to be big.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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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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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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Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

Barker, Joel A.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

40.

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.

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

Proverb, Czech.

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Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.

Smiles, Samuel

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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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All successful people are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Tracy, Brian

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

Broughton, James

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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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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

49.

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm