Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

- Allen, Charles L.

Best Quotes about Vision

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

Sawyer, Diane

When you go to buy, use your eyes not your ears.

Proverb, Czech.

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

Keller, Helen

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

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

Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

O'Brien, Conor Cruise

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

Murrow, Edward R.

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

Harriman, Edward H.

10.

So shine on through these days we have to fill.

John, Elton

11.

Aim for the highest.

Carnegie, Andrew

12.

What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his place is and may be. He needs an objective and a purpose. He needs a feeling and a belief that he has some worthwhile thing to do. What this is no one can tell him. It must be his own creation. Its success will be measured by the nature of his vision, what he has done to equip himself, and how well he has performed along the line of its development.

Dodge, Joseph M.

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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

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Terkel, Studs

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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

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

Swindoll, Charles

18.

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

19.

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.

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Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.

Murdoch, Rupert

21.

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

Brande, Dorothea

22.

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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Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Swift, Jonathan

24.

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

25.

Where there is no vision, the people perish. [Proverbs 29:18]

Bible

26.

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.

27.

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.

28.

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

Simpson, Homer

29.

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

Collier, Robert

30.

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

31.

The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.

Mumford, Lewis

32.

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

Churchill, Winston

33.

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

34.

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

Nightingale, Earl

35.

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

36.

No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.

Carlyle, Thomas

37.

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

Fox, Michael J.

38.

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

Ross, Andrew

39.

You have to think big to be big.

Bristol, Claude M.

40.

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.

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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

42.

Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare.

Proverb, Japanese

43.

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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Vision -- It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

Collier, Robert

45.

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

Smiles, Samuel

46.

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.

We need to give ourselves permission to act out our dreams and visions, not look for more sensations, more phenomena, but live our strongest dreams -- even if it takes a lifetime.

Hamilton, Vijali

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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

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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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We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

Marden, Orison Swett