Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

- Swindoll, Charles

Best Quotes about Vision

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

Brokaw, Tom

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

Kovacs

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.

Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision, but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.

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

Barker, Joel A.

There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Davies, Robertson

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

Blake, William

10.

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

Broughton, James

11.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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Aim for the highest.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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.

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Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

Walton, Sam

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

18.

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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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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In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.

Miller, Arthur

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

Bible

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

Swindoll, Charles

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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 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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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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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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So shine on through these days we have to fill.

John, Elton

31.

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

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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

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The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Miller, Henry

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

Terkel, Studs

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

Glezer, Frederic

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Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.

Sade, Marquis De

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Build it and they will come!

Movie, Fields Of Dreams

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

Fox, Michael J.

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

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

Ford, Anna

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

Sawyer, Diane

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It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.

Brown, Les

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

Kaplan, Justin

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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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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