Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

- Proverb, Czech.

Best Quotes about Vision

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

Kaufman, Herbert

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.

I always looked ahead.

Evert, Chris

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

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

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

Mumford, Lewis

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

Glezer, Frederic

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

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

Marx, Groucho

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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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Build it and they will come!

Movie, Fields Of Dreams

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

Harriman, Edward H.

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

Williams, Les

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

Fox, Michael J.

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Where there is no vision, the people perish. [Proverbs 29:18]

Bible

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

Terkel, Studs

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I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the Promised Land.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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

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We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

Marden, Orison Swett

34.

Some men see things as they are and say, Why? I of dream things that never were, and say, Why not?

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big?

Allen, Charles L.

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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

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

Sawyer, Diane

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

Proverb, Czech.

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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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I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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