Motivational Quotes

Vision

In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Vision

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

Brokaw, Tom

Television, despite its enormous presence, turns out to have added pitifully few lines to the communal memory.

Kaplan, Justin

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.

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.

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

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

Walton, Sam

Watching old movies is like spending an evening with those people next door. They bore us, and we wouldn't go out of our way to see them; we drop in on them because they're so close. If it took some effort to see old movies, we might try to find out which were the good ones, and if people saw only the good ones maybe they would still respect old movies. As it is, people sit and watch movies that audiences walked out on thirty years ago. Like Lot's wife, we are tempted to take another look, attracted not by evil but by something that seems much more shameful -- our own innocence.

Kael, Pauline

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

James, Clive

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

Rather, Dan

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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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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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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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I want to use television not only to entertain, but to help people lead better lives.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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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 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.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Kovacs

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When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.

Blake, William

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

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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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So shine on through these days we have to fill.

John, Elton

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Blake, William

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

Marx, Groucho

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The best vision is insight.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Ford, Anna

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

Collier, Robert

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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 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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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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When it comes to spotting a blonde hair on a man's coat, every wife has 20-20 vision.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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You have to think big to be big.

Bristol, Claude M.

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TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.

Huxley, Aldous

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Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Swift, Jonathan

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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 see the pattern, understand the order and experience the vision.

Gerber, Michael E.

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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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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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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.