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

You have to think big to be big.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

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.

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.

One eye sees, the other feels.

Klee, Paul

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

O'Brien, Conor Cruise

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

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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Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Davies, Robertson

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

Brokaw, Tom

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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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Dwell in though upon the Grandest, And the Grandest you shall see; Fix your mind upon the Highest, And the Highest you shall be.

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

Terkel, Studs

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

Blake, William

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

Harriman, Edward H.

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Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Kovacs

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The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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 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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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

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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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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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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Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans. Aim high in hope and work. Remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

Burnham, Daniel H.

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

Allen, Charles L.

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

Broughton, James