Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

- Gerber, Michael E.

Best Quotes about Vision

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.

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

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

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

Murrow, Edward R.

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

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

Fox, Michael J.

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The best vision is insight.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book.

Marx, Groucho

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Starr, Pamela Vaull

13.

Television is becoming a collage -- there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.

Hockney, David

14.

Aim for the highest.

Carnegie, Andrew

15.

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

16.

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

Glezer, Frederic

17.

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

Brokaw, Tom

18.

So shine on through these days we have to fill.

John, Elton

19.

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

20.

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

Swindoll, Charles

21.

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

Marden, Orison Swett

22.

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

23.

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

Kovacs

24.

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

25.

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

Miller, Henry

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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

27.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

Marden, Orison Swett

29.

Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.

O'Brien, Conor Cruise

30.

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

Broughton, James

31.

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

Kasem, Casey

32.

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

Proverb, Japanese

33.

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

34.

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.

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Paglia, Camille

40.

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

41.

Television is an excellent system when one has nothing to lose, as is the case with a nomadic and rootless country like the United States, but in Europe the affect of television is that of a bulldozer which reduces culture to the lowest possible denominator.

Fumaroli, Marc

42.

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

Allen, Charles L.

43.

I want to use television not only to entertain, but to help people lead better lives.

Winfrey, Oprah

44.

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

45.

Watching old movies is like spending an evening with those people next door. They bore us, and we wouldn't go out of our way to see them; we drop in on them because they're so close. If it took some effort to see old movies, we might try to find out which were the good ones, and if people saw only the good ones maybe they would still respect old movies. As it is, people sit and watch movies that audiences walked out on thirty years ago. Like Lot's wife, we are tempted to take another look, attracted not by evil but by something that seems much more shameful -- our own innocence.

Kael, Pauline

46.

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

Kaufman, Herbert

47.

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

48.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

49.

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

Wise, Stephen S.

50.

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