Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

- Proverb, Czech.

Best Quotes about Vision

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

We need to give ourselves permission to act out our dreams and visions, not look for more sensations, more phenomena, but live our strongest dreams -- even if it takes a lifetime.

Hamilton, Vijali

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.

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

Walton, Sam

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

Terkel, Studs

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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

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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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Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Barker, Joel A.

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

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The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

Churchill, Winston

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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.

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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

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

Allen, Charles L.

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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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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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What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his place is and may be. He needs an objective and a purpose. He needs a feeling and a belief that he has some worthwhile thing to do. What this is no one can tell him. It must be his own creation. Its success will be measured by the nature of his vision, what he has done to equip himself, and how well he has performed along the line of its development.

Dodge, Joseph M.

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Dwell in though upon the Grandest, And the Grandest you shall see; Fix your mind upon the Highest, And the Highest you shall be.

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

Murrow, Edward R.

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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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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

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

Kovacs

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Fox, Michael J.

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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

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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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I know my fate. One day there will be associated with my name the recollection of something frightful -- of a crisis like no other before on earth, of the profoundest collision of conscience, of a decision evoked against everything that until then had been believed in, demanded, sanctified. I am not a man I am dynamite.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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

Simpson, Homer

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

43.

So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist. In fact, deep in their hearts, this is what the spuds crave most: a rich, new, participatory life.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Ford, Anna

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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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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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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.

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

Glezer, Frederic

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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.