Quotes About Visionaries

My mother and father were visionaries in Pittsburgh, part of that collective of people who were creative and active together, and I am a product of that community and those relationships.

I think South Africa would be in a lot worse position had you not had visionaries like the Mandelas or the Oliver Tambos or the people there who came together after... both during apartheid and afterwards to create and structure their society.

Modern Kerala is a product of the selfless social service of great visionaries.

Earlier, actors had a lot of power in their hands. And now, it has gone in the hands of the directors and writers, and that is how it should be. They are the visionaries, and we are the doers.

The dreamers are the saviors of the world.

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind - creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers and meaning makers.

In 1973 the companies and individuals later to be identified with the advent of the personal computer were otherwise engaged. IBM was still turning out electric typewriters; Microsoft's Bill Gates was a freshman entering Harvard; and Steve Jobs, the future co-founder of Apple Computer, was a college dropout wandering around India in search of his Zen master. But

All the greatest leaders are dreamers, sometimes visionaries of the future that lies ahead of us.

Most of the so-called visionaries make the mistake of focusing too much upon the stars to the point where they end up falling to the potholes.