Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

- Murrow, Edward R.

Best Quotes about Vision

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

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

Fox, Michael J.

Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones.

Kaufman, Herbert

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

Proverb, Czech.

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.

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

Smiles, Samuel

The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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.

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.

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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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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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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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.

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

Sawyer, Diane

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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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Build it and they will come!

Movie, Fields Of Dreams

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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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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

25.

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

Keller, Helen

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Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Swift, Jonathan

27.

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

28.

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

Mulford, Prentice

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

Brokaw, Tom

31.

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

Rather, Dan

32.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

33.

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.

34.

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

35.

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

Murrow, Edward R.

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

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Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.

Terkel, Studs

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Ross, Andrew

41.

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

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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

43.

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

Picasso, Pablo

44.

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

Glezer, Frederic

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The best vision is insight.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Nine-tenths of our sickness can be prevented by right thinking plus right hygiene -- nine-tenths of it!

Miller, Henry

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

Kasem, Casey

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

Newton, Sir Isaac