Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

Best Quotes about Vision

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

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Fox, Michael J.

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.

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

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

Bradley, Omar Nelson

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

Kasem, Casey

Aim for the highest.

Carnegie, Andrew

10.

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

Keller, Helen

11.

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

Hill, Napoleon

12.

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

13.

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

Proverb, Japanese

14.

What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his place is and may be. He needs an objective and a purpose. He needs a feeling and a belief that he has some worthwhile thing to do. What this is no one can tell him. It must be his own creation. Its success will be measured by the nature of his vision, what he has done to equip himself, and how well he has performed along the line of its development.

Dodge, Joseph M.

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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

16.

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

Sawyer, Diane

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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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Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion.

Brande, Dorothea

19.

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

Wise, Stephen S.

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

Harriman, Edward H.

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Gaines, Frank

24.

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.

25.

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

Murrow, Edward R.

26.

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

Rather, Dan

27.

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

Ford, Anna

28.

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

29.

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

Williams, Les

30.

Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Barker, Joel A.

31.

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

32.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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Three people were at work on a construction site. All were doing the same job, but when each was asked what the job was, the answers varied. Breaking rocks, the first replied. Earning my living, the second said. Helping to build a cathedral, said the third.

Schultz, Peter

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We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

Marden, Orison Swett

35.

The best vision is insight.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

36.

Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing...

Collier, Robert

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

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

James, Clive

40.

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

Kaplan, Justin

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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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I always looked ahead.

Evert, Chris

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

O'Brien, Conor Cruise

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Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Davies, Robertson

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

Glezer, Frederic

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You have to think big to be big.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest.

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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