Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

- Sawyer, Diane

Best Quotes about Vision

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.

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

Keller, Helen

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

Build it and they will come!

Movie, Fields Of Dreams

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

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

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

Collier, Robert

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

Rand, Ayn

10.

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

11.

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

Rather, Dan

12.

I know my fate. One day there will be associated with my name the recollection of something frightful -- of a crisis like no other before on earth, of the profoundest collision of conscience, of a decision evoked against everything that until then had been believed in, demanded, sanctified. I am not a man I am dynamite.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Gaines, Frank

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We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

Marden, Orison Swett

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If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press.

Turner, Ed

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You have to think big to be big.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Davies, Robertson

19.

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

Glezer, Frederic

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

Mumford, Lewis

21.

When it comes to spotting a blonde hair on a man's coat, every wife has 20-20 vision.

22.

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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Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.

Baudrillard, Jean

24.

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

Proverb, Czech.

25.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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The road winds up the hill to meet the height; Beyond the locust hedge it curves from sight -- And yet no man would foolishly contend. That where he sees it not, it makes an end.

Carleton, Emma

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

Paglia, Camille

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Its marvelous what you can see when you open your eyes.

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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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I want to use television not only to entertain, but to help people lead better lives.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Vision -- It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

Collier, Robert

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

Picasso, Pablo

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I always looked ahead.

Evert, Chris

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

39.

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

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

Bible

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

Terkel, Studs

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So by all means let's have a television show quick and long, even if the commercial has to be delivered by a man in a white coat with a stethoscope hanging around his neck, selling ergot pills. After all the public is entitled to what it wants, isn't it? The Romans knew that and even they lasted four hundred years after they started to putrefy.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Kasem, Casey

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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.

Nightingale, Earl