Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

- Rand, Ayn

Best Quotes about Vision

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

O'Brien, Conor Cruise

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

Bible

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

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Terkel, Studs

I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book.

Marx, Groucho

Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones.

Kaufman, Herbert

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.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

10.

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

Murrow, Edward R.

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.

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

Gaines, Frank

13.

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

Paglia, Camille

16.

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

17.

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

Picasso, Pablo

18.

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

19.

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

20.

The best vision is insight.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

21.

The most puzzling thing about TV is the steady advance of the sponsor across the line that has always separated news from promotion, entertainment from merchandising. The advertiser has assumed the role of originator, and the performer has gradually been eased into the role of peddler.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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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

23.

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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We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Simpson, Homer

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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

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

Covey, Stephen R.

29.

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

Starr, Pamela Vaull

30.

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

31.

Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Barker, Joel A.

32.

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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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

34.

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

Rather, Dan

35.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Brokaw, Tom

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

Nightingale, Earl

38.

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

40.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

41.

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

42.

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

Mulford, Prentice

43.

I always looked ahead.

Evert, Chris

44.

You have to think big to be big.

Bristol, Claude M.

45.

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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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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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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Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.

James, Clive

49.

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

Broughton, James