Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Vision

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

Walton, Sam

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

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

We lift ourselves by our thought. We climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always everywhere.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Bible

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

Proverb, Japanese

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

Sawyer, Diane

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

Kasem, Casey

11.

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

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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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When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.

Swindoll, Charles

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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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One eye sees, the other feels.

Klee, Paul

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

Glezer, Frederic

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

Ross, Andrew

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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 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.

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

Fox, Michael J.

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Vision -- It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

Collier, Robert

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

Ford, Anna

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What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdad's of his dreams to rise from the dust.

Dali, Salvador

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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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The best vision is insight.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

30.

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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Aim for the highest.

Carnegie, Andrew

32.

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.

33.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Rather, Dan

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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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

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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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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.

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So shine on through these days we have to fill.

John, Elton

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Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing...

Collier, Robert

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

Gaines, Frank

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You have to think big to be big.