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

Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare.

Proverb, Japanese

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

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

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

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

Aim for the highest.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

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

Swindoll, Charles

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

Harriman, Edward H.

10.

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

11.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

12.

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

Kaufman, Herbert

15.

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

Collier, Robert

16.

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

17.

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

Bradley, Omar Nelson

18.

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

19.

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

20.

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

Williams, Les

21.

It's easy to say no! when there's a deeper yes! burning inside.

Covey, Stephen R.

22.

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

Picasso, Pablo

23.

So shine on through these days we have to fill.

John, Elton

24.

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

25.

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

Proverb, Czech.

26.

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

Marden, Orison Swett

27.

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

28.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Swift, Jonathan

29.

Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.

Baudrillard, Jean

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If I have seen further... it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Newton, Sir Isaac

31.

Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Barker, Joel A.

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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

33.

One eye sees, the other feels.

Klee, Paul

34.

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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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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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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TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Mumford, Lewis

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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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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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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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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

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

Murrow, Edward R.

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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

45.

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

Broughton, James

46.

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

Keller, Helen

47.

You have to think big to be big.

Bristol, Claude M.

48.

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.

49.

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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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