Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

Best Quotes about Vision

The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.

Ross, Andrew

Some men see things as they are and say, Why? I of dream things that never were, and say, Why not?

Shaw, George Bernard

Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.

O'Brien, Conor Cruise

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Keller, Helen

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

Kovacs

We need to give ourselves permission to act out our dreams and visions, not look for more sensations, more phenomena, but live our strongest dreams -- even if it takes a lifetime.

Hamilton, Vijali

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

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

Covey, Stephen R.

10.

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

Picasso, Pablo

11.

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

Walton, Sam

12.

I want to use television not only to entertain, but to help people lead better lives.

Winfrey, Oprah

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Kaplan, Justin

16.

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

Allen, Charles L.

17.

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

18.

Aim for the highest.

Carnegie, Andrew

19.

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.

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Our first journey is to find that special place for us.

Nightingale, Earl

24.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

25.

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

26.

The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

Marden, Orison Swett

27.

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

28.

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

Kaufman, Herbert

29.

For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections.

Pilgrim, Peace

30.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

31.

So shine on through these days we have to fill.

John, Elton

32.

The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing -- where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Murrow, Edward R.

36.

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

37.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Swift, Jonathan

38.

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

39.

You have to think big to be big.

Bristol, Claude M.

40.

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

41.

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

Brokaw, Tom

42.

Three levels of organizational vision: 1. The Do-able 2. The Conceivable 3. The Previously Unthinkable.

43.

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

Collier, Robert

44.

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

Terkel, Studs

45.

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

Kasem, Casey

46.

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.

47.

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

Harriman, Edward H.

48.

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

49.

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.

50.

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.