Quotes About Visionary

Poetry and science are both manifestations of the spirit that creates new ways of thinking the world, in order to understand it better. Great science and great poetry are both visionary, and sometimes may arrive at the same insights. The culture of today that keeps science and poetry so far apart is essentially foolish, to my way of thinking, because it makes us less able to see the complexity and the beauty of the world as revealed by both.

Science begins with a vision.

We are a nation founded on a visionary and, at the time, radical idea. That visionary idea is that every human life has potential, and everyone has the right to fulfill his or her potential. That is what the Founders meant when they wrote "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

The only way to stay ahead of the curve is to think so boldly that almost everyone considers you a screwball.

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

We have come tardily to the tremendous task of cleaning up our environment. We should have moved with similar zeal at least a decade ago. But no purpose is served by post-mortems. With visionary zeal but the greatest realism, we must now address ourselves to the vast problems that confront us.

A reformer is a guy who rides through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat.

Innovators are inevitably controversial.

R. Buckminster Fuller

True genius doesn't fulfill expectations, it shatters them.

Marconi invented radio, but Ted Husing knew what to do with it.

When all the facts are in, swift and clear decision is another mark of a true leader. A visionary may see, but a leader must decide. An impulsive person may be quick to declare a preference; but a leader must weigh evidence and make his decision on sound premises.

All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.

For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution.

I am a musician, but I'm another type of musician.

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

I just love Bowie. I think he's the ultimate inventor.

My ultimate dream was just to be an auteur.

I am a joyful conservative, unafraid to articulate big ideas with an optimistic smile.

I'm an unbelievable designer.

Larry Page, co-founder of Google, is an unbelievable big thinker, and there was a saying in Google that if you wanted to know the future, go to Larry.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.

Be innovative. Don't listen to the tried and tested wisdom. Take a risk!

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes