Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

- Muggeridge, Malcolm

Best Quotes about Vision

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.

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

Fox, Michael J.

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Marx, Groucho

One eye sees, the other feels.

Klee, Paul

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

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

James, Clive

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

Starr, Pamela Vaull

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I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.

Midler, Bette

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

Kaplan, Justin

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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.

14.

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

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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

17.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Barker, Joel A.

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

Murrow, Edward R.

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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

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

Brokaw, Tom

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

Broughton, James

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Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So it is with people who sometimes cover up the entire disc of eternity with a dollar, and so quench transcendent glories with a little shining dust.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Harriman, Edward H.

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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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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

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

Collier, Robert

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

Ford, Anna

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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

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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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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.

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Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

Walton, Sam

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We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened. Rostropovich was playing his cello by the Wall that no longer cast a shadow, and a million East Berliners were thronging to the West to shop with an allowance given them by West German banks! At that moment the whole world saw how materialism had lost its awesome historic power and become a shopping list.

Berger, John

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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.

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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

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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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring this endeavor will light our bounty and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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

Ross, Andrew

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

Swindoll, Charles

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Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Swift, Jonathan

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