Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Vision

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

Kaufman, Herbert

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.

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

Williams, Les

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

Walton, Sam

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Rand, Ayn

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

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

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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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The answers to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle, they're on TV!

Simpson, Homer

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

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Television -- a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.

Kovacs

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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

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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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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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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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The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Broughton, James

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

Harriman, Edward H.

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

Kasem, Casey

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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

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One eye sees, the other feels.

Klee, Paul

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

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No vision and you perish; No Ideal, and you're lost; Your heart must ever cherish Some faith at any cost. Some hope, some dream to cling to, Some rainbow in the sky, Some melody to sing to, Some service that is high.

Autermont, Harriet Du

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Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Davies, Robertson

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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

31.

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

Mulford, Prentice

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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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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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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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As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

Blake, William

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

Mumford, Lewis

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

Collier, Robert

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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All successful people are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Tracy, Brian

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Vision looks inwards and becomes duty. Vision looks outwards and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upwards and becomes faith.

Wise, Stephen S.

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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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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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You have to think big to be big.

Bristol, Claude M.