Visionaries Quotes · Page 3

You don’t have to have vision to be a visionary

— Aaron Scheidies

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.

— Jim Jarmusch

O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.

— James Russell Lowell

Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality.

— Leonard Shlain

There is a place for visionaries and the avant-garde in this world, but not at 9 o'clock on a network.

— Bruno Heller

If you want to be a visionary, go out and have some accidents!

— Timothy C. Draper

There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.

— Ben Okri

Art Modell was a visionary, a deal-maker and a friend. And he possessed a marvelous sense of humor.

— Steve Tisch

The visionary who is serving God ceases to live for personal ambitions, but rather for God's ambitions.

— George Barna

Visionaries and dreamers have always been dusted with a little oddity.

— Trevor Baylis

Among modern occupations, only cult leaders and TV weathermen rival the technological visionary's ability to retain credibility despite all evidence to the…

— Nathan Myhrvold

A great company in the media business needs visionary leaders, not a conglomerate structure headquartered in Columbus Circle that second guesses.

— Carl Icahn

Anatoli Tarasov, the guy that created the Soviet style of play, was a visionary. He was a creative thinker. He studied ballet…

— Gabe Polsky

Cathy Clamp is a visionary author, creating new worlds that are both strong and vividly drawn. Adventure and excitement at its best.

— Yasmine Galenorn

Steve Jobs was a visionary in the technology and telecom community. His contributions to innovating communications have forever changed our industry and…

— Steve Largent

Donald Trump and Mike Pence will restore the American dream for the next would-be visionary from small-town America.

— Harold Hamm

Personally, I don't think the film and television industries are run as well as they used to be. Oh sure, we've got…

— Bill Mumy

“They want visionaries. Leaders of men. Not reapers of them. There are limits," she continues. I snap. "There are no goddamned limits.”

— Pierce Brown

In every crisis, people do not respond like a school of fish. Some people become immobilized. Some people become very angry, some…

— Grace Lee Boggs

We all confidently believe that there are at present, and have been from time immemorial, many worlds of life besides our own.…

— Lord Kelvin

Geoffrey Hill may be the strongest and most original English poet of the second half of our fading century, although his work…

— John Hollander

Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the…

— Bill Viola

Fame is fun, money is useful, celebrity can be exciting, but finally life is about optimal well-being and how we achieve that…

— Bell Hooks

The techniques of being an Internet visionary are just like those of lower-tech fortunetellers through the ages. A technological visionary must tell…

— Nathan Myhrvold

After Apollo 17, America stopped looking towards the next horizon. The United States had become a space-faring nation, but threw it away.…

— Anonymous

Many have no happier moments than those that they pass in solitude, abandoned to their own imagination, which sometimes puts sceptres in…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Leaders are active instead of reactive, shaping ideas instead of responding to them. Leaders adopt a personal and active attitude toward goals.…

— Abraham Zaleznik

Inwardness is the characteristic feature of the vegetable rather than the animal approach to existence. The animals move, migrate and swarm, while…

— Terence McKenna

It has been the resolution of mankind in all ages of the world. No people, no age, ever threw away the fruits…

— William Hazlitt

Particular honour belongs to those who believed in the possibility of mechanical flight when all the world was against them; not the…

— Otto Lilienthal

All s, like all human beings, get many things wrong. Ronald Reagan's extraordinary achievement as of the U.S. was to succeed in…

— Andrew Sullivan

Paranoia imposes its own vision on the external world; it differs from other kinds of visionary experience in that the paranoid wants…

— Louis Simpson

I really would like to stop working forever–never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I’m doing now–and do…

— Allen Ginsberg

Doubtless, we are as slow to conceive of Paradise as of Heaven, of a perfect natural as of a perfect spiritual world.…

— Henry David Thoreau

The more visionary the idea, the more people it leaves behind.

— Samantha Morton

Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.

— James C. Collins

A mad person sees what isn't there; A visionary sees what isn't there yet

— Judith Thurman

To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.

— Seneca the Younger

It's not what the vision is, it's what the vision does.

— Robert Fritz

Are you responsibly optimistic? Pessimism and leadership do not mix. Leaders are positively visionary.

— J. Oswald Sanders