Motivational Quotes

Vision

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Vision

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

Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Barker, Joel A.

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

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

Ford, Anna

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

Kasem, Casey

12.

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

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

Rather, Dan

14.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

15.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Swift, Jonathan

16.

When you go to buy, use your eyes not your ears.

Proverb, Czech.

17.

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

18.

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

19.

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

20.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.

Jung, Carl

21.

Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.

James, Clive

22.

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

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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

24.

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

Williams, Les

25.

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

Gaines, Frank

26.

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

Murrow, Edward R.

27.

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

Allen, Charles L.

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

Paglia, Camille

29.

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.

30.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

Churchill, Winston

31.

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

Mumford, Lewis

32.

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

33.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

34.

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

Starr, Pamela Vaull

35.

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

Glezer, Frederic

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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

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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

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The most puzzling thing about TV is the steady advance of the sponsor across the line that has always separated news from promotion, entertainment from merchandising. The advertiser has assumed the role of originator, and the performer has gradually been eased into the role of peddler.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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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

40.

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

Walton, Sam

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

Day, Sir Robin

42.

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

Fox, Michael J.

43.

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

44.

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

Smiles, Samuel

45.

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

Proverb, Japanese

46.

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

47.

I always looked ahead.

Evert, Chris

48.

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

Brokaw, Tom

49.

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.

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The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.

Marden, Orison Swett