Quotes About Visionary

The visionary, industrious, Christian, and segregated black community of the early- to mid-1960s understood and embraced the importance of a positive self-perception. It was this same recognition that drove millions of young patriotic black men throughout our nation's history to be among the first to volunteer when our nation went to war.

Although the Academy prefers their Best Pictures grounded in realism, not fantasy, Lee's 'Life of Pi' win proved that the voters understand and appreciate the qualities a visionary director needs to create an otherworldly adventure.

You'd be hard pressed to find a bigger champion of high-speed rail than me when the bond went to voters. I believed in it.

I try to look in the future and think backwards. That is when I am at my most comfortable. Because then I am just like the movie, 'Back to the Future.'

I've always wanted to have my own business, but not in the traditional sense... I always found that quite off-putting. I just wanted to be different.

To be the first person to do anything, you're a legend.

I'm most proud that I thought of Beats at 55.

Jefferson had a remarkable capacity to marshal ideas and to move men, to balance the inspirational and the pragmatic.

You see Miss Gertrude is a genius. And a genius is a genius. So what if no one understands a word she writes. Some day they might.

There's never any percentage in being ahead of your time.

The end of the world is not an event to come, it is an event of psychological transformation, of visionary transformation. You see not the world of solid things but a world of radiance.

The first lift shaft was built four years before the first lift. In 1852 Peter Cooper was constructing the Cooper Union building in New York with an elevator shaft, in the sure and certain knowledge that if he built it, the lift would come. That isn't an act of impatience, it's an act of faith, and it is, archetypally, the act of an American.

Is that so wrong?' he asked his closest advisors. 'Is it so wrong of me to walk the ways of a visionary, a seeker, rather than a simple soldier? What is it within my father that renders him so thirsty for blood? Why is destruction the answer to every question he is asked?' Kor Phaeron clutched Lorgar's shoulder tighter. 'Because, my son, he is gravely flawed. He is an imperfect god.

Steve Jobs was famous for making big bets based on intuition rather than systematic analysis.

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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

My visionary anger cleansing my sight.

We want to empower artists and filmmakers to forge new paths.

I don't have the patience to be a non-creator.

Messi is awesome. His creative ability is extraordinary, outside of normal patterns. He manages to see what others don't.

Elon Musk with PayPal revolutionized banking.

Why would you not have a robot that looks like Abraham Lincoln? Why would it look like an erector set? Why use a computer with a punchcard, when you could use one with a touch pen on the screen? Why a car, when you could use a jetpack?

Pep is an extraordinary coach.

Pep is a great manager who sees football in another way. He lives football and breathes football. The way he thinks about the game is completely different to other managers.