Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

- Barker, Joel A.

Best Quotes about Vision

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

Build it and they will come!

Movie, Fields Of Dreams

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

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

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

What do a few lies on TV matter? They can be swallowed, digested and excreted, or follow people when they doze off to sink into oblivion.

Zhang Jie

10.

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

Glezer, Frederic

11.

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

12.

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

O'Brien, Conor Cruise

13.

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

14.

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.

15.

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.

16.

For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections.

Pilgrim, Peace

17.

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

Ross, Andrew

18.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

19.

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

Rand, Ayn

20.

Aim for the highest.

Carnegie, Andrew

21.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

22.

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

23.

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

Bradley, Omar Nelson

24.

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

25.

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

Collier, Robert

26.

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

27.

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

Kaufman, Herbert

28.

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

Swindoll, Charles

29.

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

30.

You have to think big to be big.

Bristol, Claude M.

31.

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

32.

One eye sees, the other feels.

Klee, Paul

33.

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

34.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

35.

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

Kaplan, Justin

36.

The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing -- where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.

37.

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

Keller, Helen

38.

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.

39.

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

Rather, Dan

40.

The best vision is insight.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

41.

TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

42.

I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book.

Marx, Groucho

43.

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

44.

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

Miller, Henry

45.

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

Marden, Orison Swett

46.

Better to aim at a star than shoot down a well; you'll hit higher.

47.

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

48.

I always looked ahead.

Evert, Chris

49.

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

Brokaw, Tom

50.

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

Proverb, Japanese