quotes about Visionaries
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You don’t have to have vision to be a visionary
-- Aaron Scheidies -
Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.
-- Anais Nin -
My Vocabularies vary, its so exclusionary You'll find my baby pictures in modern dictionaries Next to mighty mercenaries, and visual visionaries
-- Andre NickatinaSource : Song: My Rap World, Album: Tears of a Clown, 1999
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Lacking its own ingenuity, the parasite fears the visionary. What it cannot plagiarize, it seeks to censor. What it cannot regulate, it seeks to ban.
-- Andrew Ryan -
We need to be visionary; we have to be bold.
-- Angela Elwell Hunt -
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.
-- Angeles Arrien -
Steve Jobs is a national treasure. He is so visionary, and so bright. I had to fire him, though.
-- Arthur Rock -
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Visionary people are visionary partly because of the very great many things they don't see.
-- Berkeley Rice -
NY is the city it is today in part because of the contributions from generations of artistic visionaries
-- Bill de Blasio -
Personally, I don't think the film and television industries are run as well as they used to be. Oh sure, we've got great digital effects now but... where are the visionaries?
-- Bill Mumy -
Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude. It's no coincidence that the desert has been a major part of the visionary or mystical experience from the beginning of time.
-- Bill Viola -
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Visionaries not only believe that the impossible can be done, but that it must be done.
-- Bran Ferren -
The scarily brilliant Romantic poet and visionary William Blake dared to say what many of us have perhaps thought but kept to ourselves: “A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there’s more conversation.
-- Brian D. McLaren -
There is a place for visionaries and the avant-garde in this world, but not at 9 o'clock on a network.
-- Bruno Heller -
I wouldn’t want to be labelled unless it was something much broader and inclusive such as an ecological artist or a visionary artist, but there’s a constraint in the definition of a feminist artist, you’re an artist and you’re a feminist.
-- Carolee Schneemann -
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When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, an inspiratrice, an intuitive, a maker, a creator, an inventor, and a listener who guide, suggest, and urge vibrant life in the inner and outer world.
-- Clarissa Pinkola Estes -
Truly visionary and successful companies have discovered that there is no conflict between the pursuit of profit and having a pursuit beyond profit.
-- David Maister -
Succeed and you are a brilliant visionary. Fail and you are a delusional loser.
-- Don Dodge -
Listening to other companies' customers is the best way to gain market share, while listening to the visionaries is the best way to create new markets.
-- Esther Dyson -
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Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
When a figure painter executes a landscape he treats it as if it were a face; Degas' landscapes are unparalleled because they are visionary landscapes.
-- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec -
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A visionary may see, but a leader must decide.
-- J. Oswald Sanders -
Are you responsibly optimistic? Pessimism and leadership do not mix. Leaders are positively visionary.
-- J. Oswald Sanders -
A leader should be a visionary and have more foresight than an employee.
-- Jack Ma -
A universal peace, it is to be feared, is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary philosophers, or in the breasts of benevolent enthusiasts.
-- James Madison -
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O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.
-- James Russell Lowell -
Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.
-- Jerry Saltz -
Oh, I was never a businessman. I was a visionary, a dreamer.
-- Jim BakkerSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.
-- Jim JarmuschSource : The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 199.
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Margaret Thatcher was a 20th century visionary who understood the power of individual freedom versus the tyranny of government collectivism. She was a loyal supporter and friend of the United States and her terms as prime minister were marked as the beginning of the resurgence of the economy of the United Kingdom.
-- Joe Lhota -
Geoffrey Hill may be the strongest and most original English poet of the second half of our fading century, although his work is by no means either easy or very popular. Dense, intricate, exceedingly compact, his poetry has always had great visionary force.
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A mad person sees what isn't there; A visionary sees what isn't there yet
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Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality.
-- Leonard ShlainSource : Leonard Shlain (1991). “Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light”, William Morrow & Company
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We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things.
-- Lisa Alther -
We all confidently believe that there are at present, and have been from time immemorial, many worlds of life besides our own. . . . [This] may seem wild, and visionary; all I maintain is that it is not unscientific.
-- Lord Kelvin -
With lower start-up costs and a vastly expanded market for online services, the result is a global economy that for the first time will be fully digitally wired-the dream of every cyber-visionary of the early 1990s, finally delivered, a full generation later
-- Marc AndreessenSource : "The Live Web: Building Event-Based Connections in the Cloud". Book by Phillip J. Windley, 2012.
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It is through beauty, poetry and visionary power that the world will be renewed.
-- Maria Tatar -
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I never saw the gold plates, only in a visionary or entranced state.
-- Martin Harris -
Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.
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I'm very visionary, very big picture.
-- Max AzriaSource : "A Fashionable Life: Max & Lubov Azria" by Marshall Heyman, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 12, 2009.
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Oh, all you immigrants and visionaries, what do you hope to find here, who do you hope to become?
-- Michael CunninghamSource : Michael Cunningham (2010). “By Nightfall: A Novel”, p.70, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Don't let them make you doubt yourself. All the greatest visionaries in history have been told they were insane at some point.
-- Michele Jaffe -
The horror genre has been for me an original way of taking an explicit visual and visionary approach to directing.
-- Michele Soavi -
The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.
-- Murray BookchinSource : Murray Bookchin (1992). “Urbanization without cities: the rise and decline of citizenship”, Black Rose Books Ltd
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Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.
-- Nassim Nicholas TalebSource : Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1727, Random House
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This 'flying saucer' situation is not at all imaginary or seeing too much in some natural phenomena. Something is really flying around. The phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictitious.
-- Nathan Farragut Twining -
I think if everyone had the luxury to pursue a life of exactly what they love, we would all be ranked as visionaries and brilliant.
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson -
How will I be remembered? As a technician or artist? As a humorist or a visionary?
-- Norman Rockwell -
I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.
-- Pat BenatarSource : "Book Talk: Pat Benatar says her memoir took persuasion". Interview with Nick Zieminski, www.reuters.com. July 7, 2010.
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Pope Benedict is an amazingly visionary person. What he has done is establish an evolutionary process that will help undo the Reformation. The Anglican Church has been hijacked by modernism, with synods trying to amend the faith and this process will allow traditional Anglicans to be themselves.
-- Peter Slipper -
It is in the nature of democracies, perhaps, that while visionaries are sometimes necessary to make them, once made they can be managed by mediocrities.
-- Ramachandra GuhaSource : Ramachandra Guha (2011). “India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy”, Pan Macmillan
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As an architect you are a builder. You are of course more than a builder. You need to be a militant, you have to be a poet, you have to be a visionary, you have to be an artist. But certainly you have to be a builder. Everything starts from there.
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Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them.
-- Robert MetcalfeSource : "The Visionary Thing". www.wired.com. November 01, 1999.
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Without strong visionary leadership, no strategy will be executed effectively.
-- Robert S. KaplanSource : "Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard". Interview with Martha Lagace, hbswk.hbs.edu. August 11, 2008.
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Among idealists and visionaries, there is no shortage of good intent, but there's often a shortage of discipline.
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It is just seeing-it is a very simple word-and to be a visionary is to be a seer. The problem is that most people can't see.
-- Stan Brakhage -
When you undergo a visionary experience, what you are really doing is blowing your socially conditioned, 20th century, hive mind and allowing your brain to, literally, come to its senses.
-- Steve Kubby -
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Art Modell was a visionary, a deal-maker and a friend. And he possessed a marvelous sense of humor.
-- Steve Tisch -
I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.
-- Steven Wright -
COMPETITOR is one who can steal a few deals, but, the pinch of which, A VISIONARY Never feels...!
-- Sujit Lalwani -
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Konosuke Matsushita was a visionary entrepreneur. He started working very young as a teenager, and he eventually created Panasonic to become a truly global company.
-- Tadashi Yanai -
We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary.
-- Terence McKenna -
Visionaries and dreamers have always been dusted with a little oddity.
-- Trevor Baylis -
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The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed.
-- William Butler Yeats -
The writer is the visionary of his people... He anticipates, he warns.
-- Wole Soyinka -
I need to do a concert to celebrate David Bowie's electronic music. And in so doing, I'm not taking a step back, I'm taking a step forward and presenting it in its entirety so people can understand this type of visionary.
-- Carlos AlomarSource : Source: pitchfork.com
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When it comes to being visionary in stealing, the Republicans do better than anybody. It's really something to see.
-- Conan O'Brien -
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The word griot...is the word for what I do and the role that the filmmaker has in society...the griot is a messenger of one's time, a visionary and the creator of the future.
-- Djibril Diop Mambety -
In a sense, photographs are highly literary, and the photographer, like the writer, has to be both a master of craft and a visionary. Patient accumulation of facts and then speculation about their meaning is the nature of authorship in both mediums.
-- Peter C Bunnell -
I've always been a big fan of Guillermo del Toro, 'Pan's Labryinth' blew me away. The stories and the worlds that he's created, he is truly a visionary!
-- Robin Atkin Downes -
The ABCs of Death offers us a chance to work closely with a large number of visionary filmmakers to create a film with more jaw-dropping moments than a whole summer of blockbusters.
-- Tim League -
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If you want to be a visionary, go out and have some accidents!
-- Timothy C. Draper -
We want to build the most entrepreneurial postsecondary system in North America. That's why we're pleased that academic institutions, like Algonquin College, University of Ottawa and Carlton University are working to make that happen through the Campus-Linked Accelerator program. They are helping nurture our business visionaries and igniting their entrepreneurial spirit, helping them to succeed and to expand our economy.
-- Bob Chiarelli -
You don’t have to have vision to be a visionary
-- Aaron Scheidies -
I wouldn’t want to be labelled unless it was something much broader and inclusive such as an ecological artist or a visionary artist, but there’s a constraint in the definition of a feminist artist, you’re an artist and you’re a feminist.
-- Carolee Schneemann -
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Because of the love affair between the American public and the stock market, it is possible for entrepreneurs, technological visionaries and inventors of every sort to get financing.
-- Ron Chernow -
Successful visionaries start from where they are, what they have, and what their customers have.
-- Tom GilbSource : Tom Gilb (2005). “Competitive Engineering: A Handbook For Systems Engineering, Requirements Engineering, and Software Engineering Using Planguage”, p.310, Butterworth-Heinemann