Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

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Best Quotes about Vision

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

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

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

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

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.

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

O'Brien, Conor Cruise

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

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

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.

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Kaufman, Herbert

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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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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.

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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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I always looked ahead.

Evert, Chris

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So shine on through these days we have to fill.

John, Elton

24.

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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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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Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Barker, Joel A.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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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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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

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

Bradley, Omar Nelson

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The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the character of seers. The Elgin Marbles and a decision of John Marshall are valued for the same reason. What we feel in them is a painstaking submission to facts beyond the author's control, and to ideas imposed upon him by his vision. So with Beethoven's Symphonies, with Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations -- with any conceivable output of the human mind of which you approve. You love them because you say, These things were not made, they were seen.

Chapman, John Jay

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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.

33.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.

Jung, Carl

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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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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Mumford, Lewis

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

Rather, Dan

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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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The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Fox, Michael J.

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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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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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We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Allen, Charles L.