Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

- Kovacs

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.

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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Kaufman, Herbert

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

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

Mulford, Prentice

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

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

Walton, Sam

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

10.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Davies, Robertson

11.

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.

12.

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

Ford, Anna

13.

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

14.

Build it and they will come!

Movie, Fields Of Dreams

15.

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

16.

You have to think big to be big.

Bristol, Claude M.

17.

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

18.

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

Blake, William

19.

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

Gaines, Frank

20.

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

Glezer, Frederic

21.

Better to aim at a star than shoot down a well; you'll hit higher.

22.

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

23.

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

Day, Sir Robin

24.

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

25.

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

Rand, Ayn

26.

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

27.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

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

Kaplan, Justin

29.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

30.

The best vision is insight.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

31.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

32.

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

33.

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

Marx, Groucho

34.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

35.

So shine on through these days we have to fill.

John, Elton

36.

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

37.

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.

38.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

39.

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

Proverb, Japanese

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Mumford, Lewis

43.

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

44.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

45.

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

Wise, Stephen S.

46.

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

47.

Dwell in though upon the Grandest, And the Grandest you shall see; Fix your mind upon the Highest, And the Highest you shall be.

48.

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

Paglia, Camille

49.

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

Terkel, Studs

50.

I always looked ahead.

Evert, Chris