Visionary Quotes

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.
Steven Wright

Future, Off, Side

To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Today, Realistic

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

Leadership, Equality, Courage

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

Art, True, Call

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
Eric Hoffer

Leader, Talk, Language

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

Successful, Dream, College

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 course of human evolution and have it make some kind of sense while also seeming like a dazzling insight.
Jerry Saltz

Human, Sense, Whole

Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.
Jerry Saltz

Greatest, Human, Imagine

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

God, Idea, Loved

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

Freedom, Experience, Sympathy

There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.
Shia LaBeouf

Cannot, System, Room

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

Same, Problems, Else

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.
Malcolm Gladwell

Paper, Clean, Starts

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 to reach their highest level? We need a president that does so.
Tim Scott

America, Leader, Question

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

Country, Energy, Earth

Here's how I work: It's 2013, and most marketers are operating like it's 2009. I'm always trying to market like it's 2015, but not like it's 2020. A lot of my contemporaries who understand where the world is going, go too far out, and aren't practical. I have always prided myself on being visionary, with a heavy practicality.
Gary Vaynerchuk

Work, Trying, Understand

Oh, I was never a businessman. I was a visionary, a dreamer.
Jim Bakker

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

Life, Business, Control

Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it.
Simon Callow

Work, Poetry, House

Empirically the way you get a product visionary as CEO is for him to found the company and not get fired.
Paul Graham

Him, Found, Company

I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.
Pat Benatar

Women, America, Finger

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

Political, Problems, Vision

I am very excited to be supporting one of the world's most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question about our universe and what other civilisations may exist elsewhere.
Paul Allen

May, Universe, Question

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.
Bob Metcalfe

Successful, Advice, Research

Pope Benedict is an amazingly visionary person. What he has done is establish an evolutionary process that will help undo the Reformation. The Anglican Church has been hijacked by modernism, with synods trying to amend the faith and this process will allow traditional Anglicans to be themselves.
Peter Slipper

Faith, Help, Person

I'm very visionary, very big picture.
Max Azria

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

Leadership, Women, Future

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