Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

- Gerber, Michael E.

Best Quotes about Vision

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

Murrow, Edward R.

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

Harriman, Edward H.

The best vision is insight.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Kaufman, Herbert

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

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Simpson, Homer

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

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Swift, Jonathan

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

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I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the Promised Land.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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

Paglia, Camille

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

Swindoll, Charles

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Sawyer, Diane

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

Fox, Michael J.

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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

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Aim for the highest.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Mumford, Lewis

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

Kasem, Casey

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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.

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Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in the long run all sights may lose whatever rarity value they once possessed, and it may well turn out that people, being able to see and hear practically everything, will be specially interested in almost nothing.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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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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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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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.

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

James, Clive

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

Blake, William

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

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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.

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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

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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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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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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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Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

Sarraute, Nathalie

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

Gerber, Michael E.