Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Vision

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

Bradley, Omar Nelson

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

Allen, Charles L.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

You have to think big to be big.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Rather, Dan

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

Rand, Ayn

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

Marden, Orison Swett

10.

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

Fox, Michael J.

11.

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

12.

Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Barker, Joel A.

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Marx, Groucho

16.

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

Jung, Carl

17.

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

Terkel, Studs

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

O'Brien, Conor Cruise

21.

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

22.

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

Hutchins, Robert M.

23.

I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.

Carlyle, Thomas

24.

Aim for the highest.

Carnegie, Andrew

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Brande, Dorothea

30.

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

Glezer, Frederic

31.

So shine on through these days we have to fill.

John, Elton

32.

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.

33.

I always looked ahead.

Evert, Chris

34.

Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

Sarraute, Nathalie

35.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Swift, Jonathan

36.

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.

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Proverb, Japanese

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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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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

44.

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

45.

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

Simpson, Homer

46.

The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.

Ross, Andrew

47.

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

48.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

49.

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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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