Motivational Quotes

Vision

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Vision

One eye sees, the other feels.

Klee, Paul

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

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

The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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.

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

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

Rand, Ayn

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

10.

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

Kasem, Casey

11.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

Keller, Helen

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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

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Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Swift, Jonathan

15.

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

17.

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

Marden, Orison Swett

18.

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

James, Clive

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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

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

Broughton, James

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

Simpson, Homer

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Harriman, Edward H.

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

Brokaw, Tom

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

Gaines, Frank

27.

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

28.

Its marvelous what you can see when you open your eyes.

29.

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

Rather, Dan

30.

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

31.

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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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

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.

Brown, Les

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You have to think big to be big.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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

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

Bradley, Omar Nelson

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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

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What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdad's of his dreams to rise from the dust.

Dali, Salvador

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To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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

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So shine on through these days we have to fill.

John, Elton

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

Blake, William

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The kingdom of God could be realized simply by daring to live differently from the normal conventions. The kingdom of God in the teachings of Jesus was not an apocalyptic or heavenly projection of otherworldly desire. It was driven by a desire to think that there must be a better way to live together than the present state of affairs. And it called for a change of behavior in the present on the part of individuals invested in the vision.

Mack, Burton L.

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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.

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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

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Aim for the highest.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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

49.

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

50.

People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.

Sawyer, Diane