Vision Quotes - Page 91

What begins as a Utopian vision, always - always - ends in bloodshed. Because you have to force a utopia on a free people. Free people want to pursue their own happiness, but a one-size-fits-all approach requires herding the free, against their will, into the state's idea of what's right. Then it's not utopia.

Well, certainly I think American television is - that's proper TV.

If you know me, you know that nothing embarrasses me. Anything could happen to me on live television, and I sincerely don't care.

I grew up in front of a television. I guess I'll grow old inside of one.

STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.

Success is when you try to achieve your inward vision externally and have it come off the way you see it. Then YOU feel successful about it; that's how success is measured.

The intensity of vision in the artist and of vividness in his creations are the sole tests of his imaginative power.

On prime time entertainment television, scientists are most at risk. Ten percent of scientists featured in prime-time entertainment programming get killed, and five percent kill someone. No other occupational group is more likely to kill or be killed.

Those old stories of visions and dreams guiding men have their truth; we are saved by making the future present to ourselves.

Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.

The only thing high-definition television will do is provide sharper images of the garbage.

Because of its concrete content, sense-certainty immediately appears as the richest kind of knowledge, indeed a knowledge of infinite wealth for which no bounds can be found, either when we reach out into space and time in which it is dispersed, or when we take a bit of this wealth, and by division enter into it. Moreover, sense-certainty appears to be the truest knowledge ... but, in the event, this very certainty proves itself to be the most abstract and poorest truth. All that it says about what it knows is just that it is; and its truth contains nothing but the sheer being of the thing.

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.

They say that ninety per cent of TV is junk. But ninety per cent of everything is junk.

Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.

I have such poor vision I can date anybody.

The pressure is always very high. I am the client, and when I am the client, I need to fight with the photographer or with the stylists or with all the people that are on the set, because I am the only one who has a very specific vision. I always have the pressure, either from myself or from the company. I am a control freak. It's part of my culture. I know that I am still working to build a Frida moment at Gucci.

Seeing, in the finest and broadest sense, means using your senses, your intellect, and your emotions. It means encountering your subject matter with your whole being. It means looking beyond the labels of things and discovering the remarkable world around you.

We do a lot of looking: we look through lenses, telescopes, television tubes... Our looking is perfected every day, but we see less and less.

The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting like everything else, is that not the evidence that it has been properly cooked?

Tell me what your vision of the future and I will tell you what you are.

It is where life is fundamental and free that men develop the vision needed to reveal the human soul in the blossoms it puts forth.

Television is bubble-gum for the mind.

Local television shows do not, in general, supply make-up artists. The exception to this is Los Angeles, an unusually generous city in this regard, since they also provide this service for radio appearances.

Place, time, life, death, earth, heaven are divisions and distinctions we make, like the imaginary lines we trace upon the surface of the globe.