Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Vision

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

Sawyer, Diane

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

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

Fox, Michael J.

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

Murrow, Edward R.

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

Bradley, Omar Nelson

Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in the long run all sights may lose whatever rarity value they once possessed, and it may well turn out that people, being able to see and hear practically everything, will be specially interested in almost nothing.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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.

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Simpson, Homer

10.

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

11.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

12.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Broughton, James

18.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Kovacs

21.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

23.

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

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Some men see things as they are and say, Why? I of dream things that never were, and say, Why not?

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

Walton, Sam

27.

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

28.

The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.

Holmes Jr., 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.

30.

Aim for the highest.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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.

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

Swindoll, Charles

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

Mumford, Lewis

36.

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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.

39.

I always looked ahead.

Evert, Chris

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So shine on through these days we have to fill.

John, Elton

41.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

James, Clive

45.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas -- including this one.

Rather, Dan