Motivational Quotes

Vision

Better to aim at a star than shoot down a well; you'll hit higher.

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Best Quotes about Vision

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.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

Rand, Ayn

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

Bradley, Omar Nelson

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

Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

Better to aim at a star than shoot down a well; you'll hit higher.

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

Miller, Henry

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

Glezer, Frederic

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

Kaplan, Justin

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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.

11.

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

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

Ross, Andrew

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

Keller, Helen

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

Fox, Michael J.

15.

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

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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

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Aim for the highest.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Terkel, Studs

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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

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One eye sees, the other feels.

Klee, Paul

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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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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

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

Sawyer, Diane

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Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Swift, Jonathan

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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.

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

Harriman, Edward H.

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

Murrow, Edward R.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

29.

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

Allen, Charles L.

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

Kovacs

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

Kaufman, Herbert

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

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

Gaines, Frank

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

41.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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

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

Barker, Joel A.

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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