Vision Quotes - Page 11

Television is so influential that when an audience sees you day-in and day-out theres a certain acceptance that sets in; youre no longer a threatening personality. They become more willing to accept whatever you present.

There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in all its dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I could paint such a picture, the canvas would show only a woman looking down at her empty arms.

A truly free society is based on a vision of respect for people and what they value.

When profits are pursued by geographic interchange of goods, so that commerce for profit becomes the central mechanism of the system, we usually call it "commercial capitalism." In such a system goods are conveyed from ares where they are more common (and therefore cheaper) to areas where they are less common (and therefore less cheap). This process leads to regional specialization and to division of labor, both in agricultural production and in handicrafts.

I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.

I'm very proud of the Rome episode of 'No Reservations' because it violated all the conventional wisdom about making television. You're never, ever supposed to do a food or travel show in black and white.

The visionary is the one who brings his or her voice into the world and who refuses to edit, rehearse, perform, or hide. It is the visionary who knows that the power of creativity is aligned with authenticity.

The starship Enterprise was a metaphor starship Earth, and the vision was that the strength of this starship lay in its diversity.

Caste is not just a division of labour, it is a division of labourers.

No dream is ever just a dream.

Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.

Sustainability is here to stay or we may not be

The role of television is the illusion of company, noise. I call it the fifth wall and the second window: the window of illusion.

When our inner vision opens, our horizons expand.

We live on this very small and fragile planet: a world in which there is poverty and injustice is never going to be a safe and secure world

There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment than the TV set.

Every change begins with a vision and a decision to take action.

When there is no vision, there is no hope.

It seems to me that at 19 or 20, a young man is burning to be great at something. I was. You have a vision that's beyond the neighborhood. You want to make a mark while you're alive. You don't know exactly your future, but you want to be great at it. And greatness is an important word. And you dare not tell anybody how extreme and how burning are your visions, because you don't want anybody to mess with them

Vision looks upward and becomes faith.

There is a direct relationship between our personal experience with the Lord and how we see ourselves. The closer we grow to him, the more clear and complete becomes our vision of who we are, who we have always been, and who we may become.

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!

My vision of the future is no longer of people taking exams and proceeding from secondary school to University but of passing from one stage of independence to a higher, by means of their own activity and effort of will.

I reserve the right to evolve. What I think and feel today is subject to revision tomorrow.