Motivational Quotes

Vision

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.

Best Quotes about Vision

To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest.

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

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

Kovacs

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

Murrow, Edward R.

Aim for the highest.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Simpson, Homer

I always looked ahead.

Evert, Chris

The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the character of seers. The Elgin Marbles and a decision of John Marshall are valued for the same reason. What we feel in them is a painstaking submission to facts beyond the author's control, and to ideas imposed upon him by his vision. So with Beethoven's Symphonies, with Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations -- with any conceivable output of the human mind of which you approve. You love them because you say, These things were not made, they were seen.

Chapman, John Jay

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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

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Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

Sarraute, Nathalie

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

Ford, Anna

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

Proverb, Japanese

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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

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We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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

18.

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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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.

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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

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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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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.

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

Paglia, Camille

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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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Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Starr, Pamela Vaull

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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

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It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.

Brown, Les

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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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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

35.

So shine on through these days we have to fill.

John, Elton

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

Proverb, Czech.

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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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Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Barker, Joel A.

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

Williams, Les

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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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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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Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.

Kasem, Casey

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

Allen, Charles L.

45.

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

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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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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.

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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

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Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Mumford, Lewis