Motivational Quotes

Vision

TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.

- Wright, Frank Lloyd

Best Quotes about Vision

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

Broughton, James

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Murrow, Edward R.

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

Ford, Anna

No vision and you perish; No Ideal, and you're lost; Your heart must ever cherish Some faith at any cost. Some hope, some dream to cling to, Some rainbow in the sky, Some melody to sing to, Some service that is high.

Autermont, Harriet Du

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Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Swift, Jonathan

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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

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

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Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.

Day, Sir Robin

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Build it and they will come!

Movie, Fields Of Dreams

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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.

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

Simpson, Homer

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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

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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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Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Allen, Charles L.

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

Mulford, Prentice

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We lift ourselves by our thought. We climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always everywhere.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Kovacs

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

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.

Smiles, Samuel

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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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The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting like everything else, is that not the evidence that it has been properly cooked?

Raphael, Frederic

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

Glezer, Frederic

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

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We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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Aim for the highest.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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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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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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Gaines, Frank

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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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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

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

Collier, Robert

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

James, Clive

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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.