Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

Best Quotes about Vision

The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Kovacs

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.

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

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

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Davies, Robertson

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

Hill, Napoleon

So shine on through these days we have to fill.

John, Elton

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

Allen, Charles L.

10.

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

11.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

12.

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

Marden, Orison Swett

13.

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

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

Proverb, Japanese

16.

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

17.

Vision -- It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

Collier, Robert

18.

Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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.

20.

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

Day, Sir Robin

21.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

22.

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

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

Swindoll, Charles

24.

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

Wise, Stephen S.

25.

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

Kaufman, Herbert

26.

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

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.

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

Smiles, Samuel

29.

One eye sees, the other feels.

Klee, Paul

30.

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

Harriman, Edward H.

31.

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

Picasso, Pablo

32.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

33.

You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles -- events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.

Browne, Harry

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Rand, Ayn

36.

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

Nightingale, Earl

37.

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

Kaplan, Justin

38.

TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

39.

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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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.

41.

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

Walton, Sam

42.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

43.

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

Ross, Andrew

44.

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

Bible

45.

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

Miller, Henry

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

Marx, Groucho

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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

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You have to think big to be big.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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

50.

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