Visionary Quotes

177 Visionary quotes by 154 unique authors

The techniques of being an Internet visionary are just like those of lower-tech fortunetellers through the ages. A technological visionary must tell people what they… — Nathan Myhrvold
All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it,… — John Ruskin
Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world. — Jerry Saltz
Only an artist as preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd as Richard Artschwager, would be able to lay out the whole… — Jerry Saltz
Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was. — Martin Scorsese
But the question we should ask ourselves is, who is the next visionary leader of America? How do we have the aspiration and inspire Americans… — Tim Scott
I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals. — Linus Torvalds
I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side. — Steven Wright
There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while… — Nikki Giovanni
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others. — Friedrich Nietzsche
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 nothing but write… — Allen Ginsberg
I'm a peripheral visionary. — Steven Wright
The girls took into their own hands decisions better left to God. They became too powerful to live among us, too self-concerned, too visionary, too… — Jeffrey Eugenides
If diversity is a source of wonder, its opposite - the ubiquitous condensation to some blandly amorphous and singulary generic modern culture that takes for… — Wade Davis
And so it was I entered the broken world To trace the visionary company of love, its voice An instant in the wind (I know… — Hart Crane
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
One way or another, I think virtually all of the prophets and early Apostles had their visionary moments of our time--a view that gave them… — Jeffrey R. Holland
The first question she was asked was What do you do? as if that were enough to define you. Nobody ever asked you who you… — Jodi Picoult
Fame is fun, money is useful, celebrity can be exciting, but finally life is about optimal well-being and how we achieve that in dominator culture,… — Bell Hooks
Where hunters and woodcutters once slept in their boots by the dying light of their thousand fires and went on, old teutonic forebears with eyes… — Cormac McCarthy
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.
...perhaps the most distinguishing trait of visionary leaders is that they believe in a goal that benefits not only themselves, but others as well. It… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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… — James F. Cooper
A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable. A visionary company doesn't simply balance… — James C. Collins
A great company in the media business needs visionary leaders, not a conglomerate structure headquartered in Columbus Circle that second guesses. — Carl Icahn

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