Quotes About Visionary

He was a master of the PowerPoint presentation nearly a century before it existed.

Newt Gingrich is an incredible leader. He is a leader of our time, and he's going to lead us into the future. And we're going to accomplish the things that we've all dreamed of.

In some ways, the challenge of staying political is to stay a dreamer at the same time.

I tended to do a lot of shows that were ahead of their time and didn't run very long.

Brubaker and Phillipss books have always been about eight years ahead of their time.

At various times over 20 years, I did preliminary designs for aircraft like the Stratolaunch. For that whole time I was encouraging us to do something that almost everyone else felt you could not do.

Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time.

My mother was ahead of her time as a woman.

To be successful be ahead of your time, but only a little.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

The man with a new idea is a Crank until the idea succeeds.

The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware of the nature of the present.

The difference between a dreamer and a visionary is that a dreamer has his eyes closed and a visionary has his eyes open

Perhaps the South, the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

Samuel Adams was the kind of man you like to believe exists and rarely meet.

His image is poemagogic: It both symbolizes and sparks the creative process, which is itself a Quest.

Alexander Graham Bell was said to have made the following entirely endearing remark soon after he had invented the telephone: 'I do not think I am exaggerating the possibilities of this invention,' he said, 'when I tell you that it is my firm belief that one day there will be a telephone in every major town in America.

Forerun thy peers, thy time, and letThy feet, millenniums hence, be set In midst of knowledge, dream'd not yet.

To ignore those who stand out as harbingers in favor of those cleave to the status quo is to refuse engagement with the future if not to misunderstand the nature of youth itself

We really did have customers in those early days—true visionary early adopters—and we often talked to them and asked for their feedback. But we emphatically did not do what they said. We viewed their input as only one source of information about our product and overall vision. In fact, we were much more likely to run experiments on our customers than we were to cater to their whims.

selling the product to visionary early customers called early adopters. Before new products can be sold successfully to the mass market, they have to be sold to early adopters. These people are a special breed of customer. They accept—in fact prefer—an 80 percent solution; you don't need a perfect solution to capture their interest.4

I really value distinctive movies, movies that feel that they came from a person that was really something that they had conceived and they made and is a reflection of who they are.

King Abdullah is a reformer.

As far as I am concerned, Don Quixote is the most metal fictional character that I know. Single handed, he is trying to change the world, regardless of any personal consequences.