Motivational Quotes

Vision

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

- Walton, Sam

Best Quotes about Vision

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

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

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

Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.

James, Clive

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.

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

Paglia, Camille

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

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

Allen, Charles L.

Aim for the highest.

Carnegie, Andrew

10.

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

11.

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

Kovacs

12.

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

13.

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

Rather, Dan

14.

No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.

Carlyle, Thomas

15.

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

16.

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.

17.

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

18.

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

Gaines, Frank

19.

For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections.

Pilgrim, Peace

20.

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

Proverb, Japanese

21.

Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Barker, Joel A.

22.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

23.

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

24.

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

Ross, Andrew

25.

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

26.

Build it and they will come!

Movie, Fields Of Dreams

27.

One eye sees, the other feels.

Klee, Paul

28.

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

29.

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

30.

The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing -- where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.

31.

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.

32.

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

Blake, William

33.

Television, despite its enormous presence, turns out to have added pitifully few lines to the communal memory.

Kaplan, Justin

34.

I always looked ahead.

Evert, Chris

35.

The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

Marden, Orison Swett

36.

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.

37.

Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom.

Robbins, Anthony

38.

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

Smiles, Samuel

39.

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

Fox, Michael J.

40.

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

41.

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

Bradley, Omar Nelson

42.

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

43.

TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

44.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Davies, Robertson

45.

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.

46.

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

47.

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

Mumford, Lewis

48.

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

Churchill, Winston

49.

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

50.

The best vision is insight.

Forbes, Malcolm S.