Top 100 Quotes About Visionaries
#1. We are the visionaries, inventors, and artists. We think differently, see the world differently, and solve problems differently. It is from this difference that the dyslexic brain derives its brilliance.
Tiffany Sunday
#2. The greatest visionaries do not consider the limits of their assets, but they rather grow despite those limitations.
Scott Appleton
#3. This, I thought, is how great visionaries and poets see everything- as if for the first time. Each morning they see a new world before their eyes; they do not really see it, they create it.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#4. Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be done.
H.G.Wells
#5. Artists are visionaries. We routinely practice a form of faith, seeing clearly and moving toward a creative goal that shimmers in the distance - often visible to us, but invisible to those around us.
Julia Cameron
#6. Visionaries and dreamers have always been dusted with a little oddity.
Trevor Baylis
#7. 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
#8. I want to do literally everything. I think I was gifted ... I inherited one of the best comedy visionaries as a director.
Marlon Wayans
#9. Bless the poets, the workers for justice, the dancers of ceremony, the singers of heartache, the visionaries, all makers and carriers of fresh meaning - We will all make it through, despite politics and wars, despite failures and misunderstandings. There is only love.
Joy Harjo
#10. I believe the visionaries and true reflections of society will be rewarded after their lives. Those being rewarded now are giving the public what it needs now, usually applauding its current state and clearing consciences.
Hollace M. Metzger
#11. Revolution is glorified by intellectuals, apotheosized by poets, sanctified by visionaries, and bled white by politicians.
Ameen Rihani
#13. In any case, the life of a drunk is presumably livelier than that of the ordinary well-behaved citizen. And then - I read that once somewhere - the life of a hedonist is the best preparation for becoming a mystic.
People like St. Augustine are always the ones that become visionaries.
Hermann Hesse
#14. You're crazy," said her best friend, Angela, as the bell rang to signal five minutes before the first class on the first day back at school.
"They said that about all the great visionaries."
"You know who else they said it about?" Angela demanded. "All the actual crazy people.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#15. The band played up and down valleys still in those days unknown except to a few real-estate visionaries, little crossroads places where one day houses'd sprawl and the rates of human affliction in all categories zoom.
Thomas Pynchon
#16. I love what I do because I get to talk to the people who change the game: the influencers, visionaries who make things happen in music and culture. That's inspiring to me.
Angie Martinez
#17. People might consider you eccentric for being different, but this is good. Leaders and visionaries are not conformists afraid of standing out.
Fennel Hudson
#18. Visionaries are hyper-focused to make sure there dreams come through. Be a visionary!
Jerry Gladstone
#19. Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.
George Bernard Shaw
#20. The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries.
Muhammad Yunus
#21. Entrepreneurs are visionaries - they see things other people don't see.
Anita Roddick
#22. Huxley suggests that the reason there aren't nearly as many mystics and visionaries walking around today, as compared to the Middle Ages, is the improvement in nutrition. Vitamin deficiencies wreak havoc on brain function and probably explain a large portion of visionary experiences in the past.
Michael Pollan
#23. Successful visionaries start from where they are, what they have, and what their customers have.
Tom Gilb
#24. Great coaches are visionaries. Great coaches instill, nurture, and encourage vision, then model and motivate surrender to it.
Thomas G. Bandy
#25. I do not fear death, for death transforms visionaries into martyrs; converts noble ideas into powerful movements.
Dan Brown
#26. The best investors are visionaries - they look beyond the present.
By the same token, vision remains vision until you focus, do the work, and bring it down to earth where it will do some good.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#27. 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
#28. As we should know by now, it is as easy to make fun of religious or scientific visionaries as it is to idolize them. Which attitude is adopted depends on whether or not they tell you what you want to hear.
Thomas Ligotti
#30. Most people who describe themselves as visionaries are actually saying something quite different. They are abdicating their responsibility for the details. Details matter. The more someone or something matters to us, the more the details relating to them matter to us.
Erwin Raphael McManus
#31. The true Entrepreneurship doesn't means to be your own boss, rather it is the thirst to follow your heart and work with the team of visionaries!
Ujjwal Chugh
#32. I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#33. I love art dealers. In some ways, they're my favorite people in the art world. Really. I love that they put their money where their taste is, create their own aesthetic universes, support artists, employ people, and do all of this while letting us see art for free. Many are visionaries.
Jerry Saltz
#34. They want visionaries. Leaders of men. Not reapers of them. There are limits," she continues. I snap.
"There are no goddamned limits.
Pierce Brown
#35. Among idealists and visionaries, there is no shortage of good intent, but there's often a shortage of discipline.
Scott Belsky
#36. Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.
Anais Nin
#37. As a buying group, visionaries are easy to sell but very hard to please. This is because they are buying a dream - which, to some degree, will alwasy be a dream.
Geoffrey Moore
#38. There is nothing sane about the worship of beauty. It is too splendid to be sane. Those of whose lives it forms the dominant note will always seem to the world to be pure visionaries.
Oscar Wilde
#39. Oh, all you immigrants and visionaries, what do you hope to find here, who do you hope to become?
Michael Cunningham
#40. There is a place for visionaries and the avant-garde in this world, but not at 9 o'clock on a network.
Bruno Heller
#41. Most people find it difficult to understand purely verbal concepts. [...] We employ visual and spatial metaphors for a great many everyday expressions [...] We are so visually biased that we call our wisest men visionaries!
McLuhan Marshal
#42. The hallucinations are innumerable. That's what has always been the matter with me, in fact: no belief in history, obliviousness of principles. I shall say no more about this: poets and visionaries would be jealous. I am a thousand times the richest, let's be as miserly as the sea.
Arthur Rimbaud
#43. 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
#44. Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.
Iman
#45. We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things.
Lisa Alther
#46. Women are the primary resource of the planet. They give birth, we come from them. They are mothers, they are visionaries, they are the future. If we can figure out how to make women feel safe and honor women, it would be parallel or equal to honoring life itself.
Eve Ensler
#47. 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
#48. Entrepreneurs are like visionaries. One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing they're doing as something that's going to be the whole world.
Reid Hoffman
#49. 'Politico Magazine' listed me among the top 50 'thinkers, doers and visionaries transforming American politics' for my work in coalitions advancing net neutrality.
Marvin Ammori
#50. Everything, all of it ... it has been a huge mistake. This is what they need of you, isn't it? This is what idealists and visionaries ask of you - to make their mistakes for them.
Robert Jackson Bennett
#51. Various visionaries through time came to see with some degree of clarity that Oneness, that intrinsic connection between Self and experienced Reality.
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
#53. Visionaries not only believe that the impossible can be done, but that it must be done.
Bran Ferren
#54. Visionaries light the way. Pragmatists lead the way.
Edward L. Cote
#55. I have always believed that the material world is governed by nonmaterial sources, so that in that sense 'English Music' is an exercise in the spiritual as well as the material. I have always been attracted to the Gothic and spiritual imagination, and I've always been interested in visionaries.
Peter Ackroyd
#56. I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.
Jim Jarmusch
#58. 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 Guha
#59. It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent ... It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich - these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.
Mark Twain
#60. Leaders (Authors) are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.
-Robert Jarvik
Taylor Lee
#61. Other men look up and down, left and right; but men like us are different. We are visionaries.
Eoin Colfer
#62. Dreamers dream about things being different. Visionaries envision themselves making a difference. Dreamers think about how nice it would be for something to be done. Visionaries look for an opportunity to do something.
Andy Stanley
#63. NY is the city it is today in part because of the contributions from generations of artistic visionaries
Bill De Blasio
#64. 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
#65. American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important.
Marcus Buckingham
#66. Those who see the world through the lens of love are the true visionaries.
Bryant McGill
#67. If you look back through history, most visionaries are one step away from madmen." I
Rysa Walker
#68. Innovators are at their very heart visionaries who also have determination, dedication, passion and motivation.
Pearl Zhu
#69. We need to be skeptical of utopianists who offer unreliable totalistic visions of other worlds and strive to take us there. We need some ideals, but we also need to protect ourselves from the miscalculations and misadventures of visionaries.
Paul Kurtz
#70. The Greater London Development Plan would have cost a then-colossal £2 billion, making it the biggest public investment ever made in Britain. That was its salvation. Britain couldn't afford it. In the end, the visionaries were undone by the unmanageable scale of their own ambitions. It
Bill Bryson
#71. Visionaries have the unique ability to dream of what's possible and then make it a reality. We are excited to watch these visionaries use technology to help students develop skills in collaboration, critical thinking and teamwork that they'll need to compete in the global economy.
Michael Dell
#72. the technology is not a single cause of a cultural transformation like the Renaissance, but it is, in many ways, just as important to the story as the human visionaries that we conventionally celebrate.
Steven Johnson
#73. 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 Metcalfe
#74. Democracy is just a false idol - a mere catchword and illusion of inferior classes, visionaries and dying civilizations.
H.P. Lovecraft
#75. Visionaries see the "impossible" as the inevitable.
Robin Sharma
#76. Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.
Bill Hybels
#77. 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
#78. My Vocabularies vary, its so exclusionary You'll find my baby pictures in modern dictionaries Next to mighty mercenaries, and visual visionaries
Andre Nickatina
#79. The life of faith is less about gathering information than it is about expanding imagination. The movement Jesus started was a movement of dreamers and visionaries, not a movement of academics and theologians.
Erwin Raphael McManus
#80. Writing makes me hard, like a fisherman, and brown from the heat. Tossing out and reeling in is a job for visionaries and those with calloused hands.
Chila Woychik
#81. My advice is never let a publicist call you a 'visionary.' I've hung out with the visionaries at the famed Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. I've been a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur. I wouldn't touch 'visionary' with a 10-foot pole.
Robert Metcalfe
#82. Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.
Robert Jarvik
#83. When it comes to being visionary in stealing, the Republicans do better than anybody. It's really something to see.
Conan O'Brien
#84. Steve Jobs is a national treasure. He is so visionary, and so bright. I had to fire him, though.
Arthur Rock
#85. 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 Alomar
#86. Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.
Aldous Huxley
#87. To trust in the force that moves the universe is faith. Faith isn't blind, it's visionary.
Marianne Williamson
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. How will I be remembered? As a technician or artist? As a humorist or a visionary?
Norman Rockwell
#91. It is quite possible that the truest and most eloquent art is a successful fusion of both the visible and visionary worlds, each enhancing and reinforcing the other.
Edward Betts
#92. I never saw the gold plates, only in a visionary or entranced state.
Martin Harris
#93. 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
#94. 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
#96. 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
#97. It is a quaint comment on the notion that the English are practical and the French merely visionary, that we were rebels in arts while they were rebels in arms.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#98. Dynamic, rapidly expanding European monarchy seeks a can-do visionary to head up its South American divisions.Our ideal candidate will have at least five years' experience in New World colonization and be willing to accept shift work. Fluency in Spanish an asset.Some travel involved
Christopher Columbus
#100. 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
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