Quotes About Visionary

What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.

I think they called me the closest thing to a God of the Internet.

Coaching was something I've never had much interest in. I've always been a big-picture guy, like a manager has to be.

I wanted to have a creative director crazy enough to say, 'Sure, I'll do a collection in five days.'

I'm going to set up a foundation for the world. I'm going to take the money and start building cities all over the world. I'm a comet.

Before Missy, there was no comparison to what Missy was doing.

I conceived the original 'Deus Ex' and was the project director on the game.

I think the thing that you've seen with Donald Trump is that he doesn't - he doesn't look to the past and say, 'I've got to conform to these precedents.'

Vinod Khosla is best known for shunning convention and taking massive risks on companies he calls 'black swans' -companies with a near-complete chance of failure. But, if they succeed, the world will be forever changed.

I'm the laziest inventor you ever met. My inventing is in my head - I don't have to be in the lab working and sweating.

Steve Jobs now rests with the sublime satisfaction of symbolic immortality.

I was always excited about doing things with people that were ahead of their time, that were sort of out of sync with the rest of society.

I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.

On healthcare, climate change, nuclear disarmament, gun control and countless other issues, President Obama consistently made difficult choices and put the national interest over his own political interest to do what was right. All the while, he resisted the politics of cynicism in a system that too often encourages it.

working at Amazon was not just a job - it was part of a visionary quest, something to give higher meaning to their lives.

Almost everyone who opens up a new field does not really understand it the way the followers do." The evidence for this is, unfortunately, all too good. It has been said in physics no creator of any significant thing ever understood what he had done.

True, Jedediah Halsey's Sans Souci hadn't been so much foolish as "visionary," which, as everyone knew, was what you called a foolish idea that worked anyway.

Great leaders have to think outside the box sometimes.

They tend to be entrepreneurial rather than managerial; they

Everybody who writes about Blake begins by saying that he was a visionary. It is a vague term. All artists, even the most realistic, start with some kind of vision - that is what leads them to select what they need from the infinite diversity of appearances.

Ineffective leadership, is the plight of followers who anoint power to the autocratic persons who's visions are not founded but are rather arbitrary in their nature.

Innovation lies in a creative mind

Whither is fled the visionary gleam? Where is it now, the glory and the dream?

Thence did I drink the visionary power; And deem not profitless those fleeting moods Of shadowy exultation: not for this, That they are kindred to our purer mind And intellectual life; but that the soul, Remembering how she felt, but what she felt Remembering not, retains an obscure sense Of possible sublimity, whereto With faculties still growing, feeling still That whatsoever point they gain, they yet Have something to pursue.