Quotes About Visionary

His solution, beautiful and unattainable, was philosopher-kings.

My ten year old son, at this point, can go into the kitchen and, without a recipe, make cookie dough of some kind. It's not the same every time, but he just knows what it looks like, which is a lot earlier than I ever was involved. I mean, I could make, out of a package brownies and cakes, but not just wing it together. He might be a visionary.

Ideally, I want us to be working on things where if we're not working on them, they won't happen; companies where if we don't fund them they will not receive funding.

I like working with creative people who are receptive to new ideas, who want to do things that are different, who want to create films of a different mould.

The leader of an Earth organization who makes a commitment to history - of humans living on Earth, to begin permanent settlement/occupation of not the moon, but of another planet - this leader will have a legacy for history that will supersede Columbus, Genghis Khan or almost any recognized leader.

People always say to me, 'You've really strived to redefine retail.' But the reality is, I wanted to redefine magazines.

Rob Hardy is such a great director.

I don't consider myself bossy, but I do know what I want. You know, I have a gut feeling about a piece of material, but I've never envisioned myself as the director on top of the hill with a megaphone in my hand, screaming at 1,000 extras.

Jack Parsons was just such a figure, living on the cusp between an old world in which the very idea of space travel was a scientific absurdity and a new world in which it would become scientific fact.

Algunos chamanes consideran el estrabismo como signo de que se posee un don profético.

A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.

No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who also are creating their own time refuse to accept.

I'm inspired every day by the great captains of industry and enlightened entrepreneurs like my great-great-grandfather and founder of Fiat, Giovanni Agnelli, who personally knew all his workers and gave so much to this country, or Adriano Olivetti, unique and innovative in every way.

In my opinion, the true pioneers are those artists who make manifest in their works the new content, the determining characteristics of life in our time.

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.

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

Life is short. Don't do the same thing everyone else is doing - that's such a herd mentality. And don't do something that's two percent better than the other person. Do something that changes the world.

What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think 'outside the box,' people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done.

The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest and the rarest.

I am an idealist, which can be tiring.

The tech titans and the tech guys who I most admire are the ones behind the scenes.

Question every assumption and go towards the problem, like the way they flew to the moon. We should have more moon shots and flights to the moon in areas of societal importance.

Ah, he has too many ideas, that man da Vinci. His mind works faster than his hands.

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