Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

- Fox, Michael J.

Best Quotes about Vision

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

Bible

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

Wise, Stephen S.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

10.

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

Ford, Anna

11.

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

Barker, Joel A.

12.

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

Miller, Henry

13.

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

Harriman, Edward H.

14.

So shine on through these days we have to fill.

John, Elton

15.

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

Proverb, Japanese

16.

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

17.

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.

18.

TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

19.

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

Broughton, James

20.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Swift, Jonathan

21.

Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.

Baudrillard, Jean

22.

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

Blake, William

23.

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.

24.

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

Brokaw, Tom

25.

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

26.

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

Murrow, Edward R.

27.

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

28.

Cherish you visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate achievements.

Hill, Napoleon

29.

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

30.

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

Kasem, Casey

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Aim for the highest.

Carnegie, Andrew

34.

Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Barker, Joel A.

35.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

36.

Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom.

Robbins, Anthony

37.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

38.

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

39.

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

Mumford, Lewis

40.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

41.

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.

42.

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

Rather, Dan

43.

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

Ross, Andrew

44.

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

45.

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.

46.

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

Paglia, Camille

47.

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

48.

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

Walton, Sam

49.

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

50.

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

Williams, Les