Motivational Quotes

Vision

Vision looks inwards and becomes duty. Vision looks outwards and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upwards and becomes faith.

- Wise, Stephen S.

Best Quotes about Vision

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

Swindoll, Charles

When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.

Blake, William

I always looked ahead.

Evert, Chris

Build it and they will come!

Movie, Fields Of Dreams

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

Dwell in though upon the Grandest, And the Grandest you shall see; Fix your mind upon the Highest, And the Highest you shall be.

The answers to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle, they're on TV!

Simpson, Homer

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

Williams, Les

12.

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.

13.

The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

Marden, Orison Swett

14.

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.

15.

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

Jung, Carl

16.

The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn't there something reassuring about it! -- that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another's eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms -- nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?

Oates, Joyce Carol

17.

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

Churchill, Winston

18.

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.

19.

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

Fox, Michael J.

20.

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

Brokaw, Tom

21.

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

22.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

23.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

24.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

25.

You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles -- events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.

Browne, Harry

26.

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

James, Clive

27.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

28.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

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

Blake, William

32.

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

O'Brien, Conor Cruise

33.

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

Kaplan, Justin

34.

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

Kaufman, Herbert

35.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

39.

To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

40.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

41.

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

Gaines, Frank

42.

A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without a vision is drudgery. A vision with a task is the hope of the world.

Zimmerman, Donald

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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

44.

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

45.

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

Terkel, Studs

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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.

49.

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

Rather, Dan

50.

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

Murrow, Edward R.