Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Vision

Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big?

Allen, Charles L.

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

Vision looks inwards and becomes duty. Vision looks outwards and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upwards and becomes faith.

Wise, Stephen S.

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

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

Kaplan, Justin

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

Harriman, Edward H.

Dwell in though upon the Grandest, And the Grandest you shall see; Fix your mind upon the Highest, And the Highest you shall be.

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

Blake, William

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Murrow, Edward R.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Mulford, Prentice

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

Miller, Henry

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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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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

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Picasso, Pablo

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So shine on through these days we have to fill.

John, Elton

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There are lone figures armed only with ideas, sometimes with just one idea, who blast away whole epochs in which we are enwrapped like mummies. Some are powerful enough to resurrect the dead. Some steal on us unawares and put a spell over us which it takes centuries to throw off. Some put a curse on us, for our stupidity and inertia, and then it seems as if God himself were unable to lift it.

Miller, Henry

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The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring this endeavor will light our bounty and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Starr, Pamela Vaull

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

Smiles, Samuel

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The best vision is insight.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Barker, Joel A.

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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.

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The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.

Huxley, Aldous

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Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Alcott, Louisa May

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Aim for the highest.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp.

Ullman, James Ramsey

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

Proverb, Czech.

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

Simpson, Homer

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

O'Brien, Conor Cruise

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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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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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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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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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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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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.