Motivational Quotes

Vision

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

- Swift, Jonathan

Best Quotes about Vision

Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.

Day, Sir Robin

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

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

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 only limits are, as always, those of vision.

Broughton, James

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.

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

Churchill, Winston

When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.

Swindoll, Charles

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

Picasso, Pablo

10.

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.

11.

We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Gaines, Frank

13.

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

Proverb, Czech.

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

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

Glezer, Frederic

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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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Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

Sarraute, Nathalie

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

Collier, Robert

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

Kaufman, Herbert

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

Smiles, Samuel

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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

25.

I always looked ahead.

Evert, Chris

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

Ford, Anna

27.

One eye sees, the other feels.

Klee, Paul

28.

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

Sawyer, Diane

29.

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

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Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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

33.

I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Kovacs

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Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Harriman, Edward H.

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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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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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TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Barker, Joel A.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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The most puzzling thing about TV is the steady advance of the sponsor across the line that has always separated news from promotion, entertainment from merchandising. The advertiser has assumed the role of originator, and the performer has gradually been eased into the role of peddler.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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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 a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

Keller, Helen

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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