Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

- Muggeridge, Malcolm

Best Quotes about Vision

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

Mulford, Prentice

Aim for the highest.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Proverb, Czech.

The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Barker, Joel A.

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

Hutchins, Robert M.

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.

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

10.

I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.

Schwab, Charles M.

11.

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

12.

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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Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

Sarraute, Nathalie

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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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

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Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your Living room by people you wouldn't have in your house.

Frost, David

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

James, Clive

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Gerber, Michael E.

27.

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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The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Kasem, Casey

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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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I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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We lift ourselves by our thought. We climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always everywhere.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Proverb, Japanese

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

Picasso, Pablo

36.

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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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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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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Build it and they will come!

Movie, Fields Of Dreams

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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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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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I always looked ahead.

Evert, Chris

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

Rather, Dan

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One eye sees, the other feels.

Klee, Paul

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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.

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

Mumford, Lewis