Vision Quotes - Page 85

For every great thing we did, there is a very public moment of falling on our faces. But everything that came through us as a band was a distinct vision of R.E.M.

Conspiracies are a perennial favorite for television producers because there is always a receptive audience.

Vision makes the difference for your future.

Television doesn't want to admit it has those dreadful roach ads on anyway.

Savvy observers occasionally note television's resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it.

I've learned some exciting things - mostly, that people really want to help each other; and that, if you can lay out a vision for them - and that vision is sincere and genuine - they'll get interested.

I've never let producers tell me what to do. Even when I was making television, I always did what I wanted to do, and if I couldn't, I didn't do it. It was a freedom that, these days, young directors starting out don't have.

No hint of genuine charity ameliorates our vision of society, once sentimentalism has been laid side. What passes for cooperation turns out to be a mixture of opportunism and exploitation. Scratch an altruist and watch a hypocrite bleed.

Television has dried up for my generation, so its plays and films.

The vast majority of Americans agree with us. We're doing everything that we can. We're advertising, right now we're on television with an advertisement running in the Washington area. We've got newspaper ads.

Teaching art is a shared experience. Our ability to share our own personal vision and interact with others through art can become realized.

Roger King is, without a doubt, the greatest salesman in the history of anything. And I don't ever limit him just to television. He could sell you anything.

A leader without a vision is just a letter without a stamp; it can never reach his destination.

Admiration involves a glorious obliquity of vision.

I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones.

Make sure your vision is God's vision.

But I'm kind of spoilt when it comes to comedy. I was on 'Friends', which was one of the funniest things on television.

I love the magic of movies and television, and I always have since I was kid.

I think what makes a good actor's director is somebody who understands what I'm doing and is respectful of it, but who also has a vision and is directing me toward their vision in a way that feels productive.

We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston.

This Administration has led us into an area without vision. Bush has no clear understanding of what is being asked of the citizens, and the military is under his direction.

Every weekend he'd have me come down to work on Dragnet, which by now was on television as well as radio.

We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.

Seeing is not always believing.

It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.