Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

Best Quotes about Vision

I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the Promised Land.

King Jr. Martin Luther

I always looked ahead.

Evert, Chris

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

Kovacs

The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

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

Glezer, Frederic

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.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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

Harriman, Edward H.

13.

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

14.

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

Kaufman, Herbert

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

18.

Already we Viewers, when not viewing, have begun to whisper to one another that the more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

Priestley, J. B.

19.

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

Sawyer, Diane

20.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Swift, Jonathan

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Kaplan, Justin

24.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Davies, Robertson

25.

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

Walton, Sam

26.

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

27.

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

Barker, Joel A.

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

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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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.

33.

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

Rather, Dan

34.

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

Mumford, Lewis

35.

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

Gaines, Frank

36.

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.

37.

Aim for the highest.

Carnegie, Andrew

38.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

39.

I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.

Carlyle, Thomas

40.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

41.

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

Kasem, Casey

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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.

43.

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

Proverb, Japanese

44.

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

O'Brien, Conor Cruise

46.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

47.

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

Terkel, Studs

48.

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

Proverb, Czech.

49.

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

50.

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

Nightingale, Earl