Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

- Williams, Les

Best Quotes about Vision

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

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

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

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

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Gerber, Michael E.

Let's face it, there are no plain women on television.

Ford, Anna

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

10.

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

Blake, William

11.

Cherish you visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate achievements.

Hill, Napoleon

12.

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

13.

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

Murrow, Edward R.

14.

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

15.

TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

16.

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

Mumford, Lewis

17.

Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.

Sade, Marquis De

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

Marden, Orison Swett

22.

Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Barker, Joel A.

23.

So shine on through these days we have to fill.

John, Elton

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Ross, Andrew

28.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

29.

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

Proverb, Czech.

30.

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

31.

Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.

Kasem, Casey

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Kovacs

35.

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

Harriman, Edward H.

36.

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

37.

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

Walton, Sam

38.

I always looked ahead.

Evert, Chris

39.

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

40.

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

Starr, Pamela Vaull

41.

Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.

Day, Sir Robin

42.

It's easy to say no! when there's a deeper yes! burning inside.

Covey, Stephen R.

43.

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

Allen, Charles L.

44.

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

45.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

46.

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

47.

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

Gaines, Frank

48.

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

Glezer, Frederic

49.

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

Simpson, Homer

50.

One eye sees, the other feels.