Motivational Quotes

Vision

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Vision

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.

It's easy to say no! when there's a deeper yes! burning inside.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the character of seers. The Elgin Marbles and a decision of John Marshall are valued for the same reason. What we feel in them is a painstaking submission to facts beyond the author's control, and to ideas imposed upon him by his vision. So with Beethoven's Symphonies, with Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations -- with any conceivable output of the human mind of which you approve. You love them because you say, These things were not made, they were seen.

Chapman, John Jay

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

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Paglia, Camille

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

Collier, Robert

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist. In fact, deep in their hearts, this is what the spuds crave most: a rich, new, participatory life.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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

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

Glezer, Frederic

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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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Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

Walton, Sam

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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

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

Sawyer, Diane

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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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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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I always looked ahead.

Evert, Chris

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Proverb, Czech.

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Aim for the highest.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

Fox, Michael J.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Harriman, Edward H.

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The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

Broughton, James

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

Mulford, Prentice

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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

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

Brokaw, Tom

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