Motivational Quotes

Vision

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

- Starr, Pamela Vaull

Best Quotes about Vision

Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare.

Proverb, Japanese

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

You have to think big to be big.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Williams, Les

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

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

10.

The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

11.

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

Proverb, Czech.

12.

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

13.

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

Marx, Groucho

15.

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

Simpson, Homer

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.

O'Brien, Conor Cruise

19.

Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion.

Brande, Dorothea

20.

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Starr, Pamela Vaull

21.

One eye sees, the other feels.

Klee, Paul

22.

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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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

24.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

25.

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

Bradley, Omar Nelson

26.

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

Murrow, Edward R.

27.

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

Glezer, Frederic

28.

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

Paglia, Camille

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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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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

33.

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

Churchill, Winston

34.

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

Keller, Helen

35.

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

Mumford, Lewis

36.

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

37.

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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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.

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Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Barker, Joel A.

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Three people were at work on a construction site. All were doing the same job, but when each was asked what the job was, the answers varied. Breaking rocks, the first replied. Earning my living, the second said. Helping to build a cathedral, said the third.

Schultz, Peter

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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.

44.

Build it and they will come!

Movie, Fields Of Dreams

45.

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.

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The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn't there something reassuring about it! -- that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another's eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms -- nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?

Oates, Joyce Carol

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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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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

49.

We lift ourselves by our thought. We climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always everywhere.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Swift, Jonathan