Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Vision

Aim for the highest.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Bradley, Omar Nelson

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

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

Proverb, Czech.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Allen, Charles L.

Three levels of organizational vision: 1. The Do-able 2. The Conceivable 3. The Previously Unthinkable.

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

Fox, Michael J.

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

Kaplan, Justin

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Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.

O'Brien, Conor Cruise

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Build it and they will come!

Movie, Fields Of Dreams

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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Some men see things as they are and say, Why? I of dream things that never were, and say, Why not?

Shaw, George Bernard

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The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision, but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.

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Vision looks inwards and becomes duty. Vision looks outwards and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upwards and becomes faith.

Wise, Stephen S.

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

Kasem, Casey

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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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Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

Barker, Joel A.

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Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

Walton, Sam

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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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Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

Rand, Ayn

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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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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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Its marvelous what you can see when you open your eyes.

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

Starr, Pamela Vaull

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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.

Hill, Napoleon

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The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

Broughton, James

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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 riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Glezer, Frederic

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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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

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Sawyer, Diane

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

Gaines, Frank

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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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Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So it is with people who sometimes cover up the entire disc of eternity with a dollar, and so quench transcendent glories with a little shining dust.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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

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

Brande, Dorothea