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

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

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

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

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

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

Rather, Dan

Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened. Rostropovich was playing his cello by the Wall that no longer cast a shadow, and a million East Berliners were thronging to the West to shop with an allowance given them by West German banks! At that moment the whole world saw how materialism had lost its awesome historic power and become a shopping list.

Berger, John

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

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Davies, Robertson

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.

10.

When you go to buy, use your eyes not your ears.

Proverb, Czech.

11.

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

Miller, Henry

12.

It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.

Harriman, Edward H.

13.

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

Bible

14.

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.

15.

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

16.

One eye sees, the other feels.

Klee, Paul

17.

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

18.

So shine on through these days we have to fill.

John, Elton

19.

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

Allen, Charles L.

20.

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

21.

The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.

Mumford, Lewis

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

24.

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

Keller, Helen

25.

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.

26.

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

Kasem, Casey

27.

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

Murrow, Edward R.

28.

The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn't there something reassuring about it! -- that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another's eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms -- nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?

Oates, Joyce Carol

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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

30.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

31.

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

Broughton, James

32.

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

Marden, Orison Swett

33.

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

Collier, Robert

34.

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

Fox, Michael J.

35.

To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

36.

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

Mulford, Prentice

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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

38.

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

39.

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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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

James, Clive

42.

TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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You have to think big to be big.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Blake, William

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Terkel, Studs

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No vision and you perish; No Ideal, and you're lost; Your heart must ever cherish Some faith at any cost. Some hope, some dream to cling to, Some rainbow in the sky, Some melody to sing to, Some service that is high.

Autermont, Harriet Du