Motivational Quotes

Vision

The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Vision

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

Bradley, Omar Nelson

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

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.

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

Walton, Sam

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

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

Kaufman, Herbert

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

Murrow, Edward R.

One eye sees, the other feels.

Klee, Paul

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

Kaplan, Justin

11.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Already we Viewers, when not viewing, have begun to whisper to one another that the more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

Priestley, J. B.

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

Mulford, Prentice

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You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles -- events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.

Browne, Harry

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

Mumford, Lewis

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TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.

Brokaw, Tom

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

22.

Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing...

Collier, Robert

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

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Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Barker, Joel A.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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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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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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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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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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The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn't there something reassuring about it! -- that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another's eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms -- nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?

Oates, Joyce Carol

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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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So shine on through these days we have to fill.

John, Elton

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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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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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Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.

Murdoch, Rupert

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

Keller, Helen

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

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

Gaines, Frank

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Proverb, Czech.

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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