Motivational Quotes

Vision

There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.

- Guin, Ursula K. Le

Best Quotes about Vision

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

Walton, Sam

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

Television -- a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.

Kovacs

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Murrow, Edward R.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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 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

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Television has brought back murder into the home -- where it belongs.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Ross, Andrew

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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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Faith is power to believe and power to see...

Mulford, Prentice

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Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Barker, Joel A.

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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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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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TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

James, Clive

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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When it comes to spotting a blonde hair on a man's coat, every wife has 20-20 vision.

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Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Davies, Robertson

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

Miller, Henry

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Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.

Gaines, Frank

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

Keller, Helen

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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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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.

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

Ford, Anna

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

Glezer, Frederic

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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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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Build it and they will come!

Movie, Fields Of Dreams

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

Kasem, Casey

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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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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