Motivational Quotes

Vision

The best vision is insight.

- Forbes, Malcolm S.

Best Quotes about Vision

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

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.

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

Kaufman, Herbert

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

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

Broughton, James

Already we Viewers, when not viewing, have begun to whisper to one another that the more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

Priestley, J. B.

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.

The road winds up the hill to meet the height; Beyond the locust hedge it curves from sight -- And yet no man would foolishly contend. That where he sees it not, it makes an end.

Carleton, Emma

10.

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

James, Clive

11.

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

Sawyer, Diane

12.

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

13.

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

14.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

15.

A three -- to four -- to five-hour experience with nothingness.

Glezer, Frederic

16.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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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

18.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

19.

Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Barker, Joel A.

20.

I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

24.

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

Simpson, Homer

25.

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

Allen, Charles L.

26.

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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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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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.

29.

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

Bradley, Omar Nelson

31.

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

Walton, Sam

32.

The man with vision always goes ahead of the man with visions.

33.

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

Paglia, Camille

34.

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

Harriman, Edward H.

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For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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.

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

Fox, Michael J.

39.

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

Keller, Helen

41.

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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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

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

Proverb, Japanese

44.

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

Gaines, Frank

45.

Three people were at work on a construction site. All were doing the same job, but when each was asked what the job was, the answers varied. Breaking rocks, the first replied. Earning my living, the second said. Helping to build a cathedral, said the third.

Schultz, Peter

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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

47.

We lift ourselves by our thought. We climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always everywhere.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Nine-tenths of our sickness can be prevented by right thinking plus right hygiene -- nine-tenths of it!

Miller, Henry

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