Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

- Blake, William

Best Quotes about Vision

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

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

Brokaw, Tom

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

Williams, Les

There are lone figures armed only with ideas, sometimes with just one idea, who blast away whole epochs in which we are enwrapped like mummies. Some are powerful enough to resurrect the dead. Some steal on us unawares and put a spell over us which it takes centuries to throw off. Some put a curse on us, for our stupidity and inertia, and then it seems as if God himself were unable to lift it.

Miller, Henry

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

Paglia, Camille

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

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

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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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.

11.

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

Mulford, Prentice

12.

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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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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Aim for the highest.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Mumford, Lewis

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

Ross, Andrew

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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

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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.

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There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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

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

Ford, Anna

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

James, Clive

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

Collier, Robert

27.

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

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

30.

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

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

Swindoll, Charles

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

Kaplan, Justin

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One eye sees, the other feels.

Klee, Paul

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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

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

Wise, Stephen S.

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

Terkel, Studs

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

Broughton, James

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

O'Brien, Conor Cruise

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Build it and they will come!

Movie, Fields Of Dreams

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We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

Bradley, Omar Nelson

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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

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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

46.

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

Bible

47.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring this endeavor will light our bounty and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Gaines, Frank

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

Harriman, Edward H.