Quotes About Visionary

I'm a text artist. It's an unsung art form because it's so ahead of its time.

An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.

I envisioned all these people who had been admired for having been freaks in their own time, and I saw myself in line with them.

Sometimes the visionary aspect of any particular day comes to you in the memory of it, or it opens to you over time.

the world has enough politicians; it needs more prophets.

anyone who attempts any thing original in this world must expect a bit of ridicule." The

To a business, ordinary is poison, extraordinary the antidote.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. —JACK KEROUAC

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Daring to think that the rules do not apply is the mark of a visionary. It's also a symptom of narcissism

Arthur C. Clarke

A man may take one step ahead of his culture and chance being called a genius. But if he takes two steps, he is certain to be called a menace, a madman, a fool.

Like his great influence H.G. Wells, Clarke was a futurist and an ad astra guy, an inventor of Telstar twenty years before the engineers had the material to enact his plan.

They might have recognized in their strange companion what some of today's middle-aged recognize in the young electronics visionaries... a man who, though part of their world, still had a view that was somehow larger than theirs, that he had firm sight of a future that he somehow knew was better, as well as being a future that was definably different and, most crucially, utterly unlike the world of the present.

Is it just possible,' he sighed, 'that the most vigorous and boldest idealists have been the worst enemies of human progress instead of its greatest creators?

I write larger than life. It's what I do.

Being a visionary is a blessing and a curse, you're blessed to see things other people are not able to see but you are cursed to sit in it alone

But like a born actor who only really wants to direct, Gingrich has always been unsatisfied with what he's brilliant at. He can't still his hunger to deliver grand pronouncements on life, liberalism, conservatism, religion and whatever else swims into his consciousness.

The man primarily responsible for the Empire State Building was not trained as an architect, city planner, or engineer. He was not in the construction business, nor in the real estate business. His only direct dealings in real estate were of a personal nature—a mansion here and an apartment or summer home there—until he made the momentous decision to build the world's tallest building.

Creative minds are rarely tidy.

I feel like I write songs for the future or something. Not in an arrogant way, but I feel like maybe my songs were, like, before their time or something.

Dream big, be a visionary and dare to pursue your dream and vision unyieldingly until you realize them.

A man who sees too far, who is contemporary with the whole future, can no longer act or even move. . . .

The people who get places in life are the ones who stay ahead of the game.