Motivational Quotes

Vision

TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.

- Wright, Frank Lloyd

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.

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

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

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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Kaplan, Justin

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

Marden, Orison Swett

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

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.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

12.

Aim for the highest.

Carnegie, Andrew

13.

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

Rand, Ayn

14.

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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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.

16.

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

Nightingale, Earl

17.

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

18.

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

19.

The best vision is insight.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

20.

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

Kovacs

21.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

22.

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

23.

The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

Marden, Orison Swett

24.

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

25.

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.

26.

You have to think big to be big.

Bristol, Claude M.

27.

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

28.

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

Paglia, Camille

29.

I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.

Schwab, Charles M.

30.

Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Barker, Joel A.

31.

So shine on through these days we have to fill.

John, Elton

32.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Swift, Jonathan

33.

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

34.

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

Murrow, Edward R.

35.

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

James, Clive

36.

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.

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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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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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I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

43.

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

Broughton, James

44.

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

Allen, Charles L.

45.

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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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

47.

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

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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.

49.

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.

Miller, Arthur

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

Carlyle, Thomas