Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

Best Quotes about Vision

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

Kaplan, Justin

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

Build it and they will come!

Movie, Fields Of Dreams

I know my fate. One day there will be associated with my name the recollection of something frightful -- of a crisis like no other before on earth, of the profoundest collision of conscience, of a decision evoked against everything that until then had been believed in, demanded, sanctified. I am not a man I am dynamite.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Mumford, Lewis

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.

Smiles, Samuel

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

10.

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

Marx, Groucho

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

Rand, Ayn

13.

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

14.

I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.

Midler, Bette

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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

16.

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

17.

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

Rather, Dan

18.

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

Churchill, Winston

19.

To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest.

20.

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

Proverb, Japanese

21.

I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.

Schwab, Charles M.

22.

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

Miller, Henry

23.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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If you want to look with only one eye then you will only see part of the picture.

Williams, Les

27.

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

28.

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

Proverb, Czech.

29.

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.

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Harriman, Edward H.

34.

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

Simpson, Homer

36.

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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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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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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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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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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I always looked ahead.

Evert, Chris

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

Winfrey, Oprah

43.

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

Terkel, Studs

44.

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

Kasem, Casey

45.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

46.

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

Walton, Sam

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The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.

Marden, Orison Swett

48.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Glezer, Frederic