Quotes About Visionary

I tell people that I've had a chance to work Sam Esmail, Damien Chazelle and Cary Fukunaga, and those guys are working on a different level.

Je dis qu'il faut être voyant, se faire voyant. Le poète se fait voyant par un long, immense et raisonné dérèglement de tous les sens.

Tienen un don —facilidad de palabra, a menudo— que los distingue de la muchedumbre. Expresan una visión.

Support a few crackpots, heretics, and dreamers, especially if they are wildly optimistic about their ideas.

she saw imaginatively rather than accurately.

Picasso." He whispers like a priest. "Picasso. Who saw the truth. Who painted the truth, molded it, ripped from the earth with two angry hands.

If what we are doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it's probably not transformative enough

Not only was [Edwin Land] one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that.

Science fiction is what I point at when I say science fiction.

Most people thought he was insane when he looked up into the sky with a simple handmade telescope and cried out that the Earth revolves around the Sun, because this was four years ago.

Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. ERNEST:

Towering genius disdains a beaten path... It sees no distinction in adding story to story... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it...

Towering genius distains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

Looming over this entire story is one of the most enigmatic of American presidents. A visionary internationalist, he staked his political fortune on his hopes for the League of Nations, where countries would settle their disputes by negotiation instead of warfare. Yet he presided over the greatest assault on American civil liberties in the last century and a half. And, despite his skill as an orator and writer, he showed few regrets over that contradiction

but also thought of everything, invented everything and changed everything.

I took the initiative in creating the Internet

Outrageous ideas often prove themselves to be the most practical.

I don't do drugs. I am drugs.

I have more ideas than I'll ever be able to write in five lifetimes.

You can't please everyone, especially if you're doing very radical things at the vanguard of cooking. That's life; it's a polemic I've lived with since I started cooking.

I'm interested in making a path instead of following a trail, and that's what I want to do in life - in everything I do.

To produce the kind of landscape effects Olmsted strived to create required not months but years, even decades. I have all my life been considering distant effects and always sacrificing immediate success and applause to that of the future, he wrote. In laying out Central Park we determined to think of no result to be realized in less than forty years.

He signed the letter: George Washington Gale Ferris.

would be no skipping and dancing. No heathen. The exposition was a dream city, but it was Burnham's dream. Everywhere