Motivational Quotes

Vision

I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.

- Schwab, Charles M.

Best Quotes about Vision

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

Gaines, Frank

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.

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.

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

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

Rather, Dan

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

Keller, Helen

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

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

Collier, Robert

One eye sees, the other feels.

Klee, Paul

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

Brokaw, Tom

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

Miller, Henry

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

Bible

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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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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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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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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

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

Ford, Anna

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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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What do a few lies on TV matter? They can be swallowed, digested and excreted, or follow people when they doze off to sink into oblivion.

Zhang Jie

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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.

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Its marvelous what you can see when you open your eyes.

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The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The best vision is insight.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Build it and they will come!

Movie, Fields Of Dreams

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Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

Barker, Joel A.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Starr, Pamela Vaull

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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 always looked ahead.

Evert, Chris

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

Fox, Michael J.

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Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.

Day, Sir Robin

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Television has brought back murder into the home -- where it belongs.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

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

Sawyer, Diane

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

Mulford, Prentice

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

Allen, Charles L.

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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 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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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