Quotes About Visionary

I've been telling people that 'Hamilton' is very much a glimpse of what it's like to be inside Lin's brain.

To discover the future it is not necessary to be a seer, but it is absolutely vital to be unorthodox.

We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

There is something complete about Stevie Wonder, and one senses that he is not only exceptionally important today, but will continue to be for as long as he chooses.

Wonder Woman is very much her own character. She thinks big.

At any one time the world has a very limited number of Steve Jobs or Winston Churchills or Thomas Watson the firsts. These are wonderful people and we can learn much from them, but praying for a few more of them to solve the world's problems is not a great idea.

In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.

Steve Jobs would have wanted his words to change not just technology but politics itself.

Jack White is an extraordinary person because he's like a three-dimensional chess player. He thinks so far ahead.

My game is really played above time. I don't say that like I'm saying I'm ahead of my time. I'm saying, like, if I'm on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I've thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that's the right place to go to.

To me, Arnold was a pioneer in the spirit of Thomas Edison or Benjamin Franklin, while Tiger is a pioneer in the spirit of Bill Gates.

I am the Don Quixote of unreality.

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

Indeed, he was a contradiction. Ray Bradbury was a nostalgic visionary: He predicted the past and remembered the future.

Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.

You see, if you are 30 years ahead of your time, you will always have difficulty speaking with the bosses in the industry. They are too conservative.

The audience should feel they are hearing the future, that is arriving just on time.

I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented.

My definition of an artist is anyone who's ahead of his time and behind on his rent.

Genghis Khan was a fascinating man and way ahead of his time.

Genius is never understood in its own time.

Moviemakers can be late to a subject, or afraid, but often they are brave and ahead of their time.

I did not realize at the time, as I have discovered since, that anyone who attempts any thing original in this world must expect a bit of ridicule. Clarence Birdseye

Big breakthrough ideas often seem nuts the first time you see them.