Vision Quotes - Page 88

As an artist, my concern is toward the synthesizing of all the visual elements at my disposal - at the exclusion of none.

The most important criteria for a DNC chair is going to be vision.

And they like being able to turn on the television day in and day out to see someone that they know and they feel comfortable with and trust hopefully and respect even.

It was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned him in vision and strength.

It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.

Sometimes we make decisions because it seems to be the only path visible at the moment. It's only later that we see there was more than one path, but the others were blocked from our vision at the time. That's the thing with hindsight, you see. Even if you can see it clearly, there's no going back. It's at that point we need to turn around and stare ahead and make a new life.

I'd say working on television is much, much tougher than films. But television has a great connect with a live audience, which is a refreshing change for us actors.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine Washington-back ed Google Glasses strapped onto vacant human faces - forever.

I want people to have their own visions for the dance. Some generations will sit back and relate to the music. And the young people ...they'll have the dance right in front of them.

In this era of affluence and of permissiveness, we have, in all but cultural areas, bred a nation of overprivileged youngsters, saturated with vitamins, television and plastic toys.

I describe television as feminine and movies as masculine, in the sense that television wants to examine a problem from all sides and talk about it for a long time, and movies just want to hit the climax and then maybe have a smoke.

Our sanity depends essentially on a narrowness of vision--the ability to select the elements vital to survival, while ignoring the great truths.

Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies.

The impressions on the soul that comes from the Holy Ghost are far more significant than a vision. It is where the spirit speaks to spirit and the imprint upon the soul is far more difficult to erase.

Television is very different than working on film. With films, you get to develop a set of characters, and then, at the end of the film, you have to throw them away.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

O latest born and loveliest vision far of all Olympus' faded hierarchy.

A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.

Your teammates will stretch your vision or choke your dream.

You must find a way to get your vision seen, implemented, and contributed to by others.

It is never a good sign when the most exciting thing on television is a dancing Republican.

When there's a painting in the room, my eye goes right to it. It's like if you go into a bar and there's a television on, you can't take your eyes off the television. Paintings have that effect on me. It's where my eye settles.

The vision of a culture lies in what becomes its major institutions, in what it remembers as its most impacting events, in who it sees as its heroes.

We never see a tree except through the image that we have of it, the concept of that tree; but the concept, the knowledge, the experience, is entirely different from the actual tree. Look at a tree and you will find how extraordinarily difficult it is to see it completely, so that no image, no screen, comes between the seeing and the actual fact. By completely I mean with the totality of your mind and heart, not a fragment of it.

Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.