Quotes about vision

"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 on vision   

"I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts."

Welles, Orson on vision   

"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 on vision   

"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 on vision   

"TV -- chewing gum for the eyes."

Wright, Frank Lloyd on vision   

"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 on vision   

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

Allen, Charles L. on vision   

"No vision and you perish; No Ideal, and you're lost; Your heart must ever cherish Some faith at any cost. Some hope, some dream to cling to, Some rainbow in the sky, Some melody to sing to, Some service that is high."

Autermont, Harriet Du on 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. on vision   

"Your successful past will block your visions of the future."

Barker, Joel A. on vision   

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

Barker, Joel A. on vision
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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 on vision   

"Where there is no vision, the people perish. [Proverbs 29:18]"

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

Blake, William on vision   

"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 on vision   

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

Bradley, Omar Nelson on vision
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"Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion."

Brande, Dorothea on vision   

"You have to think big to be big."

Bristol, Claude M. on vision   

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

Broughton, James on vision   

"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 on vision   

"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 on vision   

"Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans. Aim high in hope and work. Remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die."

Burnham, Daniel H. on vision
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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 on vision   

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

Carlyle, Thomas on vision   

"I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country."

Carlyle, Thomas on vision   

"Aim for the highest."

Carnegie, Andrew on vision   

"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 on vision   

"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 on vision   

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

Churchill, Winston on vision
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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Clarke, Arthur C. on vision
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"Vision -- It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own."

Collier, Robert on vision   

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

Collier, Robert on vision   

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

Covey, Stephen R. on vision
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"Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision."

Davies, Robertson on vision   

"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. on vision   

"Hitch your wagon to a star. Let us not fag in paltry works which serve our pot and bag alone."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on vision
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"Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on vision   

"I always looked ahead."

Evert, Chris on vision