Top 100 Quotes About A Visionary
#1. Every barren land is a VISION waiting for a VISIONARY
Fela Durotoye
#2. Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#3. To see something as either black or white is easy. To see the entirety in something that has blending colors takes time. To see something that's not there, takes one who is a visionary.
Wes Adamson
#4. I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals.
Linus Torvalds
#5. These inventors were elevating the formulation of entrepreneurial ideas to the status of a visionary activity. Though forced to justify their efforts in the pragmatic language of venture capital, they were at heart utopian thinkers intent on transforming the world.
Alain De Botton
#6. Cathy Clamp is a visionary author, creating new worlds that are both strong and vividly drawn. Adventure and excitement at its best.
Yasmine Galenorn
#7. The world has lost a visionary leader, a courageous voice for justice, and a clear moral compass. By showing us that the path to freedom and human dignity lies in love, wisdom and compassion for one another, Nelson Mandela stands as an inspiration to us all.
Kofi Annan
#8. To be a visionary, all you have to do is make decisions based off of your eyes instead of your ears and your memory.
Kanye West
#9. Everybody who writes about Blake begins by saying that he was a visionary. It is a vague term. All artists, even the most realistic, start with some kind of vision - that is what leads them to select what they need from the infinite diversity of appearances.
Kenneth Clark
#10. I have to extend my admiration and respect for Sam Esmail, who is a visionary with what he's done with 'Mr. Robot,' and this brilliant resurgence of Christian Slater only helped us get where we are today - very talented individual.
Rami Malek
#11. A vision without a task makes a visionary; a task without a vision is drudgery; a vision with a task makes a missionary.
Leonard Ravenhill
#12. Dickens' London was a place of the mind, but it was also a real place. Much of what we take today to be the marvellous imaginings of a visionary novelist turn out on inspection to be the reportage of a great observer.
Judith Flanders
#13. A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon.
Eoin Colfer
#14. Victor Vigny: A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon.
Conor Broekhart: Which resembles a giant banana.
Eoin Colfer
#15. Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.
Aldous Huxley
#16. A visionary is a leader of excellence who sees what others do not see, who achieves for now and plans for the future, who positively impacts different generations and raises up other visionaries.
Onyi Anyado
#17. I approach film no differently than I approach a role. I want to make sure the movie is right, the characters are right, I can really bring something to it as a visionary, a storyteller. It's great to point a camera, but can you tell a story?
Larenz Tate
#18. 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
#19. Working at Amazon was not just a job - it was part of a visionary quest, something to give higher meaning to their lives.
Richard L. Brandt
#20. Yes, indeed. San Francisco was the perfect place for a walker between worlds like Jamie Hastings to grow up in. Her soul had chosen wisely before coming in, born to a visionary mother like Amanda, and situated in one of sunny California's most beautiful landscapes.
Patricia Cori
#21. 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
#22. Crumb was such an influence on me. He's such a visionary, such a great artist, that he so shaped my artistic sensibilities on a certain level that I do owe everything to him. The way I see the world is largely changed by him.
Terry Zwigoff
#23. How will I be remembered? As a technician or artist? As a humorist or a visionary?
Norman Rockwell
#24. I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.
Pat Benatar
#25. Clarissa, sane Clarissa-exultant, ordinary Clarissa- will go on, loving London, loving her life of ordinary pleasure, and someone else, a deranged poet, a visionary, will be the one to die.
Michael Cunningham
#26. I never saw the gold plates, only in a visionary or entranced state.
Martin Harris
#27. 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
#28. Visionaries are hyper-focused to make sure there dreams come through. Be a visionary!
Jerry Gladstone
#29. To have a Welch-caliber C.E.O. is impressive.To have a century of Welch-Caliber C.E.O.'s all grown from the inside - well, that is one key reason why G.E. is a visionary company.
James C. Collins
#30. Anatoli Tarasov, the guy that created the Soviet style of play, was a visionary. He was a creative thinker. He studied ballet and chess and art and read a lot.
Gabe Polsky
#31. If you are a writer
May words twirl around your place
If you are a dreamer,
May visions placate your days with solace
If you are a lover
May fragrant freedom grace your days
If you are a visionary
May the hues of rainbow seep into your ways
Balroop Singh
#32. A visionary company is one which is seen growing in a consistent pattern by being goal oriented driven by a vision and a mission
Henrietta Newton Martin
#33. Steve Jobs was a visionary in the technology and telecom community. His contributions to innovating communications have forever changed our industry and our lives. He will be greatly missed.
Steve Largent
#34. A visionary is someone who sees what is possible, who sees the potential. A missionary is someone who carries out that work.
Mario Chinas
#35. 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
#36. Oh, I was never a businessman. I was a visionary, a dreamer.
Jim Bakker
#37. In a free society, the 'vision thing' is left to private individuals; civil servants are kept on a tight leash, because free people understand that a 'visionary' bureaucrat is a voracious one and that the grander the government ... the poorer and less free the people.
Ilana Mercer
#38. The difference between a dreamer and a visionary is that a dreamer has his eyes closed and a visionary has his eyes open
Martin Luther King Jr.
#39. The loneliness of a visionary is that you might be the only one in the universe at that time who recognizes magic. I'm a magical person, and so I recognize other magical people. It takes ones to know one.
Kim Fowley
#40. Sometimes I think I'm an artist. Once in a great while I even think I may be a visionary, but never a prophet, a seer.
Henry Miller
#41. Be a visionary, focused upon your ability to create your desires within your reality.
Steven Redhead
#43. Wright is a visionary with a great strategic mind, and he's a strong business leader with outstanding people skills, ... He's a terrific guy and will be a key force in guiding the company's future growth.
Jack Welch
#45. 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.
Renzo Piano
#46. If you want to be a visionary, go out and have some accidents!
Timothy C. Draper
#47. Today the world lost a visionary leader, the technology industry lost an iconic legend and I lost a friend and fellow founder. The legacy of Steve Jobs will be remembered for generations to come. My thoughts and prayers go out to his family and to the Apple team.
Michael Dell
#48. Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.
James C. Collins
#49. Statesman create; ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it; a statesman must be a visionary and an educator.
Henry A. Kissinger
#50. If critics and fanboys weren't suckers for simplistic nihilism and high-pressure marketing, Afterlife would be universally acclaimed as a visionary feat, superior to Inception and Avatar on every level.
Armond White
#51. I love Kanye West. I think he's a visionary. He's one of those people for whom I separate his personality from his artistry.
Halsey
#53. Comfort is not the objective in a visionary company. Indeed, visionary companies install powerful mechanisms to create /dis/comfort
to obliterate complacency
and thereby stimulate change and improvement /before/ the external world demands it.
James C. Collins
#54. A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable.
James C. Collins
#55. You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.
Michael Dell
#56. Frank Miller is more of a visionary than any director I've ever worked with, and he achieves that vision better than anyone I've ever worked with.
Gabriel Macht
#57. Art Modell was a visionary, a deal-maker and a friend. And he possessed a marvelous sense of humor.
Steve Tisch
#58. I say that one must be a visionary - that one must make oneself a VISIONARY.
Arthur Rimbaud
#59. There is no way to tell if we are the pioneers of a visionary new age, whisking humanity into the high vibrations of an interdimensional love party, or post-modern Don Quixotes attacking techno-industrial windmills with our flimsy, rolled-up yoga mats.
Jonathan Talat Phillips
#60. Michael Cole is a visionary!
The Miz
#61. Every one is a visionary, if you scratch him deep enough. But the Celt is a visionary without scratching.
W.B.Yeats
#62. When all the facts are in, swift and clear decision is another mark of a true leader. A visionary may see, but a leader must decide. An impulsive person may be quick to declare a preference; but a leader must weigh evidence and make his decision on sound premises.
J. Oswald Sanders
#63. Being a visionary is a new profession, but it is really just a variant on fortunetelling, which may be the world's oldest. And its marketing appeal is similar - people will pay for reassurance about the unknown.
Nathan Myhrvold
#64. Denmark should be a green and sustainable society with a visionary climate and energy policy ... The answer to these challenges lies in the way we produce and consume energy and in our ability to adapt our society to climate change.
Connie Hedegaard
#65. The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other.
James F. Cooper
#67. We need a visionary leader with very big and bold ideas. This is a very big, very bold country.
Newt Gingrich
#68. To be a visionary parent, we need to keep working on ourselves, becoming forever new and improved.
Mark Victor Hansen
#69. A mad person sees what isn't there; A visionary sees what isn't there yet
Judith Thurman
#70. COMPETITOR is one who can steal a few deals, but, the pinch of which, A VISIONARY Never feels ... !
Sujit Lalwani
#71. There is one thing more powerful than kings and all the soldiers in the world, and that is a visionary who has the courage to persevere.
Paul Delaroche
#72. A digital-ready CIO is a visionary and transformational leader, not just a transactional manager, for the long term.
Pearl Zhu
#74. The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.
James Fenimore Cooper
#75. Walt Disney was a visionary leader. He had no leadership books or training courses to give him guidance. He operated, as many great leaders do, on instinct and observation.
Jim Korkis
#76. Don't be an interpreter of reality, be a visionary. Don't think about it, see it!
Osho
#77. Did the gods once mingle with humankind, or is Homer a visionary madman, or, what is worse, a mere poet, a maker-up of beautiful falsities, an elegant liar? I shall grapple with that perplexity, only to emerge as I went in, in a cloud of unknowing, if perhaps a little the wiser.
Eva Brann
#78. The idea of universal brotherhood is innate in the catholic nature of Chinese thought; it was the dominant concept of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, whom events have proved time and again to be not a visionary but one of the world's greatest realists.
Chiang Kai-shek
#79. Personal excellence can be achieved by a visionary goal, through planning, dedicated execution, and total follow-through.
Gerald R. Ford
#81. 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
#82. I'm riding my man Obama. I think he's a visionary. Actually, Barack told me the first date he took Michelle to was 'Do the Right Thing.' I said, Thank God I made it. Otherwise you would have taken her to 'Soul Man.' Michelle would have been like 'What's wrong with this brother?'
Spike Lee
#83. He was a visionary or a fool I have found the line perilously thin myself
Khaled Hosseini
#84. CROUCHING TIGER is nevertheless a gloriously big epic, starring the Hong Kong action stars Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeoh in a visionary adventure where the characters seem set free from the force of gravity.
Roger Ebert
#85. I am not a visionary. I'm an engineer. I'm happy with the people who are wandering around looking at the stars but I am looking at the ground and I want to fix the pothole before I fall in.
Linus Torvalds
#86. A leader should be a visionary and have more foresight than an employee.
Jack Ma
#87. Girls should be brought up to be comrades and helpers, not to be dolls. They should take a real and not a visionary share in the welfare of the nation.
Robert Baden-Powell
#88. The Convention is not only a visionary document. We are reminded daily that it is an agreement that works - and its utility can be seen in the everyday use to which I have seen it increasingly being put by country after country, in policy, in practice and in law.
Carol Bellamy
#89. 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
#90. Daring to think that the rules do not apply is the mark of a visionary. It's also a symptom of narcissism. -
Ariel Levy
#91. transformed, and transported by one specific guide - a visionary, an activist, an outrageous fighter and dreamer. I have come to know these women (and sometimes men) as Vagina Warriors.
Eve Ensler
#92. Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being.
Tim Cook
#93. Lombardi, Shula, Landry and Gibbs were innovators. Bill Walsh was a visionary ...
Michael Wilbon
#94. 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
#96. I'm not a visionary, but I've spent half my life drawing things Imagined, Remembered, and Observed, comparing the differences between them, and my study confirms that "the difference between night and day / is not as great as people say."
Peter Blegvad
#97. There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.
Shia Labeouf
#98. Although the Academy prefers their Best Pictures grounded in realism, not fantasy, Lee's 'Life of Pi' win proved that the voters understand and appreciate the qualities a visionary director needs to create an otherworldly adventure.
Richard Corliss
#99. Every great advancement was once nothing more than a dream in the mind of a visionary.
Robin Sharma
#100. 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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