Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

- Day, Sir Robin

Best Quotes about Vision

Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones.

Kaufman, Herbert

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

The best vision is insight.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Nine-tenths of our sickness can be prevented by right thinking plus right hygiene -- nine-tenths of it!

Miller, Henry

All successful people are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Tracy, Brian

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

Allen, Charles L.

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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

10.

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

Starr, Pamela Vaull

11.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

12.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

13.

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

Murrow, Edward R.

14.

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

Brande, Dorothea

15.

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.

16.

Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Barker, Joel A.

17.

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

Proverb, Czech.

18.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

19.

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

Mumford, Lewis

20.

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

21.

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

Ford, Anna

22.

TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Jung, Carl

26.

The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

Marden, Orison Swett

27.

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

28.

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

Kasem, Casey

29.

I want to use television not only to entertain, but to help people lead better lives.

Winfrey, Oprah

30.

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

Blake, William

31.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Davies, Robertson

32.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

33.

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

Simpson, Homer

34.

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

Terkel, Studs

35.

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.

36.

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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

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The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.

Huxley, Aldous

39.

One eye sees, the other feels.

Klee, Paul

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Day, Sir Robin

43.

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

Bradley, Omar Nelson

44.

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

45.

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

Ross, Andrew

46.

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

47.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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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

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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