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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
Visionary people are visionary partly because of the very great many things they don't see. -- Berkeley Rice
Visionary Fiction speaks the language of the soul. It offers a vision of humanity as we dream it could be. -- Jodine Turner
Visionary idealism is a male art form. The lesbian aesthete does not exist. But if there were one, she would have learned from the perverse male mind. -- Camille Paglia
Alexander McQueen was one of the greatest fashion designers of his generation. His genius, sometimes provocative, admired and saluted by all, constantly opened new perspectives. Visionary and avant-garde, his creations took their inspiration from both tradition and timeless hyper-modernity. -- Francois-Henri Pinault
Oh, I was never a businessman. I was a visionary, a dreamer. -- Jim Bakker
I have tremendous faith in President Obama's skills. He's a long-term visionary. -- Deepak Chopra
The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world. -- Malcolm Gladwell
To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side. -- Steven Wright
Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world. -- Jerry Saltz
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. -- Eric Hoffer
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
In my view, a political vision is not a grab-bag of discrete problems and solutions. It is the visionary anticipation of a direction. -- Roberto Unger
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
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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, true and existent. -- John Ruskin
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 F. Cooper
There is a group of entrepreneurs pushing the envelope, government officials that are making significant changes despite the odds, and visionary writers, academics, and colleagues whose work confirms, amplifies, and stretches my own thinking. -- Robin Chase
After Apollo 17, America stopped looking towards the next horizon. The United States had become a space-faring nation, but threw it away. We have sacrificed space exploration for space exploitation, which is interesting but scarcely visionary. -- Gene Cernan
We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country. -- Jay Inslee
When the world is in the midst of change, when adversity and opportunity are almost indistinguishable, this is the time for visionary leadership and when leaders need to look beyond the survival needs of those they're serving. -- Chip Conley
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
Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens. -- David Cameron
There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order. -- William E. Gladstone
When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, an inspiratrice, an intuitive, a maker, a creator, an inventor, and a listener who guide, suggest, and urge vibrant life in the inner and outer world. -- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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
A visionary is someone who can see the future, or thinks he sees the future. In my case, I use it and it comes out right. That doesn't come from daydreams or dreams, but it comes from knowing the market and knowing the world and knowing people really well and knowing where they're going to be tomorrow. -- Leonard Lauder
You have to have a big vision and take very small steps to get there. You have to be humble as you execute but visionary and gigantic in terms of your aspiration. In the Internet industry, it's not about grand innovation, it's about a lot of little innovations: every day, every week, every month, making something a little bit better. -- Jason Calacanis
Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that was opened up for me was acting. But you can go from acting to being a TV personality to being a radio personality to being a writer to being a producer, to just being a visionary, to voiceover work. -- Kevin Hart
I'm a peripheral visionary. -- Steven Wright
Michael Cole is a visionary! -- The Miz
Faith isn't blind, it's visionary -- Marianne Williamson
Whatever isn't visionary is diversionary -- Constance Chuks Friday
The visionary is the only realist. -- Federico Fellini
I'm very visionary, very big picture. -- Max Azria
A visionary thrives under all conditions. -- Esther Hicks
You don't need vision to be a visionary. -- Aaron Scheidies
A visionary may see, but a leader must decide. -- J. Oswald Sanders
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Without strong visionary leadership, no strategy will be executed effectively. -- Robert S. Kaplan
We need to be visionary; we have to be bold. -- Angela Elwell Hunt
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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
Lombardi, Shula, Landry and Gibbs were innovators. Bill Walsh was a visionary . . . . -- Michael Wilbon
Guatemala commends the visionary decision of the citizens of Colorado and Washington -- Otto Perez Molina
O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change. -- James Russell Lowell
Free and open expression coupled with visionary leadership generally encourages good decision-making. -- M. Russell Ballard
The writer is the visionary of his people... He anticipates, he warns. -- Wole Soyinka
[Donald] Trump is a big visionary guy, not a detail guy, obviously. -- George Stephanopoulos
He [Prince] changed the world!!A true visionary.What a loss.I'm devastated. -- Madonna Ciccone
If you want to be a visionary, go out and have some accidents! -- Timothy C. Draper
I never saw the gold plates, only in a visionary or entranced state. -- Martin Harris
Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality. -- Leonard Shlain
A leader should be a visionary and have more foresight than an employee. -- Jack Ma
A mad person sees what isn't there; A visionary sees what isn't there yet -- Judith Thurman
Succeed and you are a brilliant visionary. Fail and you are a delusional loser. -- Don Dodge
Are you responsibly optimistic? Pessimism and leadership do not mix. Leaders are positively visionary. -- J. Oswald Sanders
In a climate of uncertainty and fear, without strong and visionary leadership, people panic. -- Patrick Dodson
It is through beauty, poetry and visionary power that the world will be renewed. -- Maria Tatar
There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist. -- Shia LaBeouf
How will I be remembered? As a technician or artist? As a humorist or a visionary? -- Norman Rockwell
Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument. -- Aldous Huxley
A government of laws without men is as visionary as a government of men without laws. -- Learned Hand
Every great advancement was once nothing more than a dream in the mind of a visionary. -- Robin Sharma
As we passed on, it seemed those scenes of visionary enchantment would never have an end. -- Meriwether Lewis
To trust in the force that moves the universe is faith. Faith isn't blind, it's visionary. -- Marianne Williamson
Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it. -- Simon Callow
Personal excellence can be achieved by a visionary goal, through planning, dedicated execution, and total follow-through. -- Gerald R. Ford
The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking. -- Murray Bookchin
Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. -- Tim Cook
To be a visionary parent, we need to keep working on ourselves, becoming forever new and improved. -- Mark Victor Hansen
Remember, every great leader (or visionary or brave thinker) was initially laughed at. Now they are revered. -- Robin Sharma
The visionary who is serving God ceases to live for personal ambitions, but rather for God's ambitions. -- George Barna
Donald Trump and Mike Pence will restore the American dream for the next would-be visionary from small-town America. -- Harold Hamm
Creativity is the art that can give rise to visionary metaphorical relationships, as opposed to purely psy-chological ones. -- Carl Jung
Winston [ Churchill] is a dandy and a visionary. Unfortunately, in winning wars, principles are inevitably debased. That's politics. -- Coco Chanel
Vision w/o execution is just hallucination. You need the right combination of visionary + team that can execute -- Walter Isaacson
There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild. -- Ben Okri
COMPETITOR is one who can steal a few deals, but, the pinch of which, A VISIONARY Never feels...! -- Sujit Lalwani
Art Modell was a visionary, a deal-maker and a friend. And he possessed a marvelous sense of humor. -- Steve Tisch
I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America. -- Pat Benatar
We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. -- Terence McKenna
A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable. -- James C. Collins
Steve Jobs is a national treasure. He is so visionary, and so bright. I had to fire him, though. -- Arthur Rock
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The horror genre has been for me an original way of taking an explicit visual and visionary approach to directing. -- Michele Soavi
Empirically the way you get a product visionary as CEO is for him to found the company and not get fired. -- Paul Graham
The visionary disciplines himself to see the world always as if he had only just seen it for the first time. -- Colin Wilson
I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals. -- Linus Torvalds
Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality. -- bell hooks
A great company in the media business needs visionary leaders, not a conglomerate structure headquartered in Columbus Circle that second guesses. -- Carl Icahn
Cathy Clamp is a visionary author, creating new worlds that are both strong and vividly drawn. Adventure and excitement at its best. -- Yasmine Galenorn
Spiritual teachers and artists that have opened the eye of wisdom for the world, and visionary community builders, have influenced my work. -- Alex Grey
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.
Among modern occupations, only cult leaders and TV weathermen rival the technological visionary's ability to retain credibility despite all evidence to the contrary. -- Nathan Myhrvold
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
Truly visionary and successful companies have discovered that there is no conflict between the pursuit of profit and having a pursuit beyond profit. -- David Maister
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
All poetry is an ordered voice, one which tries to tell you about a vision in the un-visionary language of farm, city, and love. -- Paul Engle
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
When a figure painter executes a landscape he treats it as if it were a face; Degas' landscapes are unparalleled because they are visionary landscapes. -- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
The tribe often thinks the visionary has turned his back on them. When, in fact, the visionary has simply turned his face to the future. -- Ray A. Davis
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
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
Pulver's skills as a post-Beat visionary are in rare form. A House of Hollow Wounds is a thrilling foray into the dark frontier of the weird. -- Laird Barron
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
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 blind. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
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
There is some advantage in having imagination, since that visionary faculty opens the mental eyes to facts that more practical and duller intellects could never see. -- E.D.E.N. Southworth
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
Gregg Braden is a rare blend of a scientist, visionary, and scholar, with the ability to speak to our minds, while touching the wisdom of our hearts. -- Deepak Chopra
There are some key elements to business being a success, and that's a smart visionary and great management behind the people that are going to build it. -- Rob Dyrdek
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
I have spoken so far only of the blissful visionary experience? But visionary experience is not always blissful. It's sometimes terrible. There is hell as well as heaven. -- Aldous Huxley
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
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

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