Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

Best Quotes about Vision

Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.

James, Clive

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

Glezer, Frederic

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

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

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

Paglia, Camille

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

Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Keller, Helen

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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

Ford, Anna

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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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The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting like everything else, is that not the evidence that it has been properly cooked?

Raphael, Frederic

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Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Rather, Dan

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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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Build it and they will come!

Movie, Fields Of Dreams

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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.

Nightingale, Earl

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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.

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Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Kasem, Casey

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

Swindoll, Charles

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

Blake, William

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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

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The best vision is insight.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

Hutchins, Robert M.

32.

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

Bible

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

Collier, Robert

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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

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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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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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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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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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Aim for the highest.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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You have to think big to be big.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Kaufman, Herbert

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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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If I have seen further... it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Autermont, Harriet Du

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

Murrow, Edward R.

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

Simpson, Homer