Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

Best Quotes about Vision

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

Bible

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.

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Swift, Jonathan

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

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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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.

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.

10.

Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.

Day, Sir Robin

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.

Huxley, Aldous

14.

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.

15.

Build it and they will come!

Movie, Fields Of Dreams

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Wise, Stephen S.

19.

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

20.

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

Smiles, Samuel

21.

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

Starr, Pamela Vaull

22.

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

Proverb, Japanese

23.

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

24.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Davies, Robertson

25.

You have to think big to be big.

Bristol, Claude M.

26.

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

Mulford, Prentice

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

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

Simpson, Homer

30.

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

31.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

32.

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

Bradley, Omar Nelson

33.

What do a few lies on TV matter? They can be swallowed, digested and excreted, or follow people when they doze off to sink into oblivion.

Zhang Jie

34.

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

35.

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

Glezer, Frederic

36.

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

Ford, Anna

37.

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

Barker, Joel A.

38.

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

Broughton, James

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Terkel, Studs

43.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

44.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

45.

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

Swindoll, Charles

46.

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

Blake, William

47.

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

48.

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

Walton, Sam

49.

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

50.

There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.

Baudrillard, Jean