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Quotes About Visionaries

LEADERS ARE VISIONARIES WITH A POORLY DEVELOPED SENSE OF FEAR AND NO CONCEPT OF THE ODDS AGAINST THEM.
~ Peter Watts
The only good is knowledge, Sekhandur. The only evil is ignorance'. 'That is a saying uttered by as many fools as visionaries and an attitude that has led to damnation more than once. The last man to speak those words in my presence doomed our Legion.
~ Aaron Dembski-Bowden
The growing tip is a small proportion of mankind. They will carry on. As a matter of fact, that is what is happening with the whole humanistic synthesis now; the groundbreaking is done by a few people, and most of the stuff is just routine or mediocr
~ Abraham Maslow
I wait for the hour when that divine Beauty, which ravished the hearts of the Hebrew prophets, Hindu and Buddhist visionaries, Christian and Sufi mystics, and Chinese sages, will make itself known in America today.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Today visionaries have access to the technology to upgrade humanity, and terminate the race in the process. Yesterday's visionaries are today's messiahs and angels of death.
~ David Archer
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
I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.
~ Jim Jarmusch
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
We are different, my friend. We are visionaries. A monkey looks up and sees and banana, and that is as far as he looks. But a visionary looks up and sees the moon.
~ Eion Colfer Airman
Implementers aren't considered bozos anymore.
~ John Sculley
Los grandes visionarios de las tradiciones místicas sugieren que lo que experimentamos todos los días es una realidad proyectada, en la que los acontecimientos y las cosas sólo están separadas en el tiempo y el espacio, de manera aparente. En el reino más profundo, todos somos miembros del mismo cuerpo y cuando una parte del cuerpo se mueve, todas las demás son afectadas al instante.
~ Deepak Chopra
The differentiating attitude of Winners is their exceptional ability to look at any situation and come up with novel ways to make it better, using their expert touch and value add innovation. While the losers live in their past glory, the winners move on with life - perfectly in sync with present, and always striving to create better future. Winners are those visionaries, in my view, who never quit.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
The differentiating attitude that winneres have, in my view, is their best ability to look at any situation and come up with multiple ways to make it better, using their expert touch and value add. While the losers like to live in their past glory, the winners move on - perfectly in sync with present, and always striving to create better future. Winners are those visionaries who never quit.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
The idealists and visionaries, foolish enough to throw caution to the winds and express their ardor and faith in some supreme deed, have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
~ Emma Goldman
You cry, "give us war!" You are visionaries. When will you become thinkers? The thinkers do not look for power and strength from any of the dreams that constitute military art: tactics, strategies, fortifications, artillery and all that rubbish. They do no believe in war, which is a fantasy; they believe in chemistry, which is a science. They know the way to put victory into an algebraic formula.
~ Anatole France
One thing about pioneers that you don't hear mentioned is that they are invariably, by their nature, mess-makers.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness.
~ L.M. Montgomery
A society without its dreamers can never be free.
~ Yehudi Menuhin
hope. And the possibility of history's transformation lies through that door…. Spiritual visionaries have often been the first to walk through that door, because in order to walk through it, first you have to see it, and then you have to believe that something lies on the other side.2 A
~ Diana Butler Bass
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
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
Most people who describe themselves as visionaries are actually saying something quite different. They are abdicating their responsibility for the details. Details matter. The more someone or something matters to us, the more the details relating to them matter to us.
~ Erwin Raphael McManus
Dreamers dream about things being different. Visionaries envision themselves making a difference. Dreamers think about how nice it would be for something to be done. Visionaries look for an opportunity to do something.
~ Andy Stanley