Motivational Quotes

Vision

The most puzzling thing about TV is the steady advance of the sponsor across the line that has always separated news from promotion, entertainment from merchandising. The advertiser has assumed the role of originator, and the performer has gradually been eased into the role of peddler.

- White, Elwyn Brooks

Best Quotes about Vision

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.

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

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

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

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

Blake, William

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.

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

Miller, Henry

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

10.

Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

Sarraute, Nathalie

11.

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

Kaufman, Herbert

12.

The best vision is insight.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

13.

I always looked ahead.

Evert, Chris

14.

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

James, Clive

15.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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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

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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.

18.

TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

19.

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

20.

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

Hill, Napoleon

21.

Let's face it, there are no plain women on television.

Ford, Anna

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

Rather, Dan

23.

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

25.

So shine on through these days we have to fill.

John, Elton

26.

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

28.

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

Kasem, Casey

29.

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

30.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.

Jung, Carl

31.

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.

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

Sawyer, Diane

33.

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

Nightingale, Earl

34.

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

35.

The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

Marden, Orison Swett

36.

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

37.

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

Marden, Orison Swett

38.

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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In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

40.

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

41.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

Churchill, Winston

42.

You have to see the pattern, understand the order and experience the vision.

Gerber, Michael E.

43.

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

44.

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

Mulford, Prentice

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Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Barker, Joel A.

46.

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

Terkel, Studs

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

Glezer, Frederic

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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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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

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

Allen, Charles L.