Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

Best Quotes about Vision

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

Harriman, Edward H.

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

Mumford, Lewis

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

Brande, Dorothea

When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.

Blake, William

The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Barker, Joel A.

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

Starr, Pamela Vaull

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

Barker, Joel A.

What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his place is and may be. He needs an objective and a purpose. He needs a feeling and a belief that he has some worthwhile thing to do. What this is no one can tell him. It must be his own creation. Its success will be measured by the nature of his vision, what he has done to equip himself, and how well he has performed along the line of its development.

Dodge, Joseph M.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Keller, Helen

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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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Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Aim for the highest.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Glezer, Frederic

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

Jung, Carl

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Barker, Joel A.

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

Blake, William

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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.

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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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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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TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.

Brokaw, Tom

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

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You have to think big to be big.

Bristol, Claude M.

33.

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

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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

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

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

Allen, Charles L.

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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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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

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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.

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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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So by all means let's have a television show quick and long, even if the commercial has to be delivered by a man in a white coat with a stethoscope hanging around his neck, selling ergot pills. After all the public is entitled to what it wants, isn't it? The Romans knew that and even they lasted four hundred years after they started to putrefy.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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

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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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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

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

Ford, Anna