Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Vision

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

Proverb, Czech.

You have to think big to be big.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Kaplan, Justin

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

Bible

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

Brokaw, Tom

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.

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

Kovacs

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

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

Proverb, Japanese

10.

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

Ford, Anna

11.

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

Churchill, Winston

12.

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

Broughton, James

13.

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

14.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

15.

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

Keller, Helen

16.

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.

17.

I always looked ahead.

Evert, Chris

18.

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

Bradley, Omar Nelson

19.

Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones.

Kaufman, Herbert

20.

One eye sees, the other feels.

Klee, Paul

21.

Build it and they will come!

Movie, Fields Of Dreams

22.

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

Wise, Stephen S.

23.

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

24.

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

25.

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

Sawyer, Diane

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

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

Rand, Ayn

30.

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

31.

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

Picasso, Pablo

32.

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

Smiles, Samuel

33.

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

Terkel, Studs

34.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Swift, Jonathan

35.

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

Walton, Sam

36.

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

Murrow, Edward R.

37.

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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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

39.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

40.

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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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

42.

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

Mulford, Prentice

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Television has brought back murder into the home -- where it belongs.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Nightingale, Earl

45.

When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.

Blake, William

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TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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

48.

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

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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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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