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I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way. -- Jim Jarmusch
Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. -- Robert Jarvik
American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important. -- Marcus Buckingham
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
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
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
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
A visionary may see, but a leader must decide. -- J. Oswald Sanders
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world. -- Malcolm Gladwell
A mad person sees what isn't there; A visionary sees what isn't there yet -- Judith Thurman
To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
Visionary people are visionary partly because of the very great many things they don't see. -- Berkeley Rice
To be a visionary parent, we need to keep working on ourselves, becoming forever new and improved. -- Mark Victor Hansen
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. -- Eric Hoffer
To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality. -- bell hooks
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
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
There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories. -- Soong May-ling
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
Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand. -- Anita Borg
Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith. -- Salman Rushdie
I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine some real grounds for hope. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries-the realists of a larger reality. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Visionaries are limited by their visions. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Visionaries see the "impossible" as the inevitable. -- Robin Sharma
Visionaries and dreamers have always been dusted with a little oddity. -- Trevor Baylis
Dreamers dream about things being different. Visionaries envision themselves making a difference. -- Andy Stanley
Visionaries not only believe that the impossible can be done, but that it must be done. -- Bran Ferren
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
Revolution is glorified by intellectuals, apotheosized by poets, sanctified by visionaries, and bled white by politicians. -- Ameen Rihani
There is a place for visionaries and the avant-garde in this world, but not at 9 o'clock on a network. -- Bruno Heller
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
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
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
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
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
True visionaries are never lukewarm. -- George Barna
Societies in decline have no use for visionaries. -- Anais Nin
Entrepreneurs are visionaries - they see things other people don't see. -- Anita Roddick
We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things. -- Lisa Alther
Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Those who see the world through the lens of love are the true visionaries. -- Bryant H. McGill
Successful visionaries start from where they are, what they have, and what their customers have. -- Tom Gilb
I do not fear death, for death transforms visionaries into martyrs; converts noble ideas into powerful movements. -- Dan Brown
Other men look up and down, left and right; but men like us are different. We are visionaries. -- Eoin Colfer
Great coaches are visionaries. Great coaches instill, nurture, and encourage vision, then model and motivate surrender to it. -- Thomas G. Bandy
NY is the city it is today in part because of the contributions from generations of artistic visionaries -- Bill de Blasio
Among idealists and visionaries, there is no shortage of good intent, but there's often a shortage of discipline. -- Scott Belsky
Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries. -- George Bernard Shaw
Oh, all you immigrants and visionaries, what do you hope to find here, who do you hope to become? -- Michael Cunningham
My Vocabularies vary, its so exclusionary You'll find my baby pictures in modern dictionaries Next to mighty mercenaries, and visual visionaries -- Andre Nickatina
I want to do literally everything. I think I was gifted... I inherited one of the best comedy visionaries as a director. -- Marlon Wayans
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
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
People might consider you eccentric for being different, but this is good. Leaders and visionaries are not conformists afraid of standing out. -- Fennel Hudson
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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