Motivational Quotes

Vision

Three people were at work on a construction site. All were doing the same job, but when each was asked what the job was, the answers varied. Breaking rocks, the first replied. Earning my living, the second said. Helping to build a cathedral, said the third.

- Schultz, Peter

Best Quotes about Vision

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

James, Clive

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

Walton, Sam

You have to think big to be big.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

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

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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

11.

I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.

Carlyle, Thomas

12.

One eye sees, the other feels.

Klee, Paul

13.

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

Allen, Charles L.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Brande, Dorothea

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There are lone figures armed only with ideas, sometimes with just one idea, who blast away whole epochs in which we are enwrapped like mummies. Some are powerful enough to resurrect the dead. Some steal on us unawares and put a spell over us which it takes centuries to throw off. Some put a curse on us, for our stupidity and inertia, and then it seems as if God himself were unable to lift it.

Miller, Henry

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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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To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest.

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The man with vision always goes ahead of the man with visions.

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Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Davies, Robertson

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

Glezer, Frederic

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The best vision is insight.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.

Jung, Carl

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

Broughton, James

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Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Swift, Jonathan

31.

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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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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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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The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Aim for the highest.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Keller, Helen

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

Shaw, George Bernard

39.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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

42.

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

43.

You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles -- events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.

Browne, Harry

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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