Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Vision

The kingdom of God could be realized simply by daring to live differently from the normal conventions. The kingdom of God in the teachings of Jesus was not an apocalyptic or heavenly projection of otherworldly desire. It was driven by a desire to think that there must be a better way to live together than the present state of affairs. And it called for a change of behavior in the present on the part of individuals invested in the vision.

Mack, Burton L.

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

Blake, William

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

Smiles, Samuel

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

Bradley, Omar Nelson

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

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

Mumford, Lewis

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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

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

Gaines, Frank

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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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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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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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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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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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The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.

Mailer, Norman

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

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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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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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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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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 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

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Build it and they will come!

Movie, Fields Of Dreams

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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 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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Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Davies, Robertson

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

Harriman, Edward H.

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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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Television has brought back murder into the home -- where it belongs.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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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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When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.

Swindoll, Charles

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Television is becoming a collage -- there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.

Hockney, David

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Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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I always looked ahead.

Evert, Chris

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Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.

Murdoch, Rupert

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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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Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in the long run all sights may lose whatever rarity value they once possessed, and it may well turn out that people, being able to see and hear practically everything, will be specially interested in almost nothing.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Brokaw, Tom

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

Williams, Les