Motivational Quotes

Vision

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your Living room by people you wouldn't have in your house.

- Frost, David

Best Quotes about Vision

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

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

Proverb, Japanese

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Gerber, Michael E.

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

The best vision is insight.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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

Paglia, Camille

11.

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

12.

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

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

Fox, Michael J.

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Where there is no vision, the people perish. [Proverbs 29:18]

Bible

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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.

18.

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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It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

Keller, Helen

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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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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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I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.

Sawyer, Diane

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened. Rostropovich was playing his cello by the Wall that no longer cast a shadow, and a million East Berliners were thronging to the West to shop with an allowance given them by West German banks! At that moment the whole world saw how materialism had lost its awesome historic power and become a shopping list.

Berger, John

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

Starr, Pamela Vaull

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

Day, Sir Robin

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

Kovacs

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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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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.

35.

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

Glezer, Frederic

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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.

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The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring this endeavor will light our bounty and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.

Kennedy, John F.

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Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

Walton, Sam

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

Williams, Les

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

44.

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

Allen, Charles L.

45.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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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

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You have to think big to be big.

Bristol, Claude M.

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So shine on through these days we have to fill.

John, Elton

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