Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

- Kovacs

Best Quotes about Vision

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

Glezer, Frederic

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

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.

I always looked ahead.

Evert, Chris

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.

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

O'Brien, Conor Cruise

10.

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

Miller, Henry

11.

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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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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TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Murrow, Edward R.

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One eye sees, the other feels.

Klee, Paul

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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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A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without a vision is drudgery. A vision with a task is the hope of the world.

Zimmerman, Donald

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

Marx, Groucho

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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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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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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

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

Harriman, Edward H.

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

Kovacs

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

Simpson, Homer

29.

Build it and they will come!

Movie, Fields Of Dreams

30.

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

Kasem, Casey

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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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

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Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

Walton, Sam

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

Shaw, George Bernard

35.

What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his place is and may be. He needs an objective and a purpose. He needs a feeling and a belief that he has some worthwhile thing to do. What this is no one can tell him. It must be his own creation. Its success will be measured by the nature of his vision, what he has done to equip himself, and how well he has performed along the line of its development.

Dodge, Joseph M.

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

Fox, Michael J.

39.

So shine on through these days we have to fill.

John, Elton

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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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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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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.

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

Terkel, Studs

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

Smiles, Samuel