Quotes About Visionary

Visionary experience is not the same as mystical experience. Mystical experience is beyond the realm of contradictions. Visionary experience is still within that realm. Heaven entails hell, and 'going to heaven' is no more liberating than is the descent into horror.

A man consists of what I may call an Old World of personal consciousness and, beyond a dividing sea, a series of New Worlds - the not too distant Virginias and Carolinas of the personal sub-subconscious and the vegetative soul; the Far West of the collective unconscious, with its flora of symbols, its tribes of aboriginal archetypes; and, across another, vaster ocean, at the antipodes of everyday consciousness, the world of Visionary Experience.

Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument. The gorgeous fancy dress worn by kings, popes and their respective retainers, military and ecclesiastical, has a very practical purpose—to impress the lower classes with a lively sense of their masters' superhuman greatness.

Ultimately, a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus. I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity.

Every American carries in his bloodstream the heritage of the malcontent and the dreamer.

There will come a day," Jared mused, "when people will miss him greatly. He goes for the big thing and he gets it done. Nobody can keep up with the spirit in which he leads.

There is no such thing as a money problem. There is only a vision problem, an imagination problem, a passion problem, a plan problem, and/or a combination thereof.

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

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

Visionary companies are so clear about what they stand for and what they're trying to achieve that they simply don't have room for those unwilling or unable to fit their exacting standards.

Visionary companies make some of their best moves by experimentation, trial and error, opportunism, and—quite literally—accident. What looks in retrospect like brilliant foresight and preplanning was often the result of "Let's just try a lot of stuff and keep what works.

one man created the Pont Neuf.

A prophet is always much wider than his followers, much more liberal than those who label themselves with his name.

To pursue radical ideas, he has to be a radical loss-cutter. Every dollar they save by getting to no quickly is a dollar they can spend on something that could change the world.

Betting against entrepreneurs who are changing the world has never been a profitable endeavor.

The other states look to New York for the progressive direction.

My style is to be collaborative, progressive, to look at things that seem a little bit impossible.

I am prone to get carried away thinking about creative projects.

Alan Moore is a prophetic writer.

True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.

I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.

A director is a very selfish person. For him, his film is like his baby.

While we were filming 'Munna Bhai MBBS,' we didn't think we were doing some kind of mainstream cinema. I only knew that I was doing a different kind of cinema.

I'm a filmmaker, not a scientist.