Motivational Quotes

Vision

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.

Best Quotes about Vision

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.

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

Murrow, Edward R.

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

Marx, Groucho

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

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

Kaufman, Herbert

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

The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

Marden, Orison Swett

You have to think big to be big.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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

11.

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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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

13.

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

Mulford, Prentice

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

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Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Barker, Joel A.

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

Sawyer, Diane

20.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Fox, Michael J.

22.

TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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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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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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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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We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

Marden, Orison Swett

28.

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

29.

So shine on through these days we have to fill.

John, Elton

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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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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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If you want to look with only one eye then you will only see part of the picture.

Williams, Les

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

Ford, Anna

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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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Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

Walton, Sam

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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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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

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Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.

Kasem, Casey

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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Starr, Pamela Vaull

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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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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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Nine-tenths of our sickness can be prevented by right thinking plus right hygiene -- nine-tenths of it!

Miller, Henry

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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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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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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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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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Build it and they will come!

Movie, Fields Of Dreams

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

Churchill, Winston