Motivational Quotes

Vision

Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

- Sarraute, Nathalie

Best Quotes about Vision

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.

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

Mumford, Lewis

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

Swindoll, Charles

Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing...

Collier, Robert

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

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

Broughton, James

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

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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

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

Glezer, Frederic

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

Sawyer, Diane

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Keller, Helen

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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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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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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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Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in the long run all sights may lose whatever rarity value they once possessed, and it may well turn out that people, being able to see and hear practically everything, will be specially interested in almost nothing.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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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.

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

Fox, Michael J.

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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

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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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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

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The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting like everything else, is that not the evidence that it has been properly cooked?

Raphael, Frederic

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

Smiles, Samuel

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TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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 best vision is insight.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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If I have seen further... it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Terkel, Studs

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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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

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You have to think big to be big.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

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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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Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans. Aim high in hope and work. Remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

Burnham, Daniel H.

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

Kovacs

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

Kaufman, Herbert

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

Mulford, Prentice

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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.