Quotes About Visionary

A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.

Gregg Braden is a rare blend of a scientist, visionary, and scholar, with the ability to speak to our minds, while touching the wisdom of our hearts.

Un tercer rasgo fundamental del carácter de los superjefes —definitivo para sus innovaciones— es su naturaleza imaginativa. Los superjefes son visionarios. Piensan intensamente en lo que podría ser y se desviven por convertir sus sueños en realidad.

Of all menaces to peace and quiet a visionary nun is the worst

Big ideas come from forward thinking people who challenge the norm, think outside the box, and invent the world they see inside rather than submitting to the limitations of current dilemmas

I intend to be a strong Speaker. I hope to make some imaginative changes around here.

I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when I was reading science fiction, I thought 'I can't wait for the future when the special effects are good' to represent what was in these books by Arthur C. Clarke, Alfred Bester, Philip K. Dick, J.G. Ballard, Jack Vance.

SoftBank is not a specialist on any instrument. We did not invent any instrument. Not the best player. But we would like to be a conductor of this information revolution.

Aaron Spelling went further than anyone has ever gone for television.

I knew Spike Jonze would do something really interesting with it.

I will lead mankind into a new world! You cannot kill me! No man can murder me!

One man who saw through his own eyes and thought with his own brain. Such men may be rare, they may be unknown, but they move the world.

There was never an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.

The mastermind, the man with the plan

Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer.

A genius is a man who has two great ideas.

It takes a Newton to forge a Newton. What man could have fabricated a Jesus? None but a Jesus.

I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working for me whose skills were greater than my own. I am an idea man.

It was clear how he had become the leader of a sort of gang back home: not by asserting his leadership but by being so relentless in his production, evaluation, and exploitation of ideas that his friends had been left with no choice but to form up in his wake.

Yes, Einstein was a badass.

The day our knowledge of the cosmos ceases to expand, we risk regressing to the childish view that the universe figuratively and literally revolves around us. In that bleak world, arms-bearing, resource-hungry people and nations would be prone to act on their "low contracted prejudices." And that would be the last gasp of human enlightenment—until the rise of a visionary new culture that could once again embrace, rather than fear, the cosmic perspective.

I would divide the senior executives of the engineering world into two categories, the starters and the runners, the men with a creative instinct who can start a new venture and the men who can run it to make it show a profit.... I was a starter and useless as a runner.

takes us the farther distance from the Old World to something new and revolutionary in human thought. That moral center, however, is hard to find with modern eyes. Locating it requires

And it's funny because it was my grandpa who painted it shut (window) in the first place, and he had a whole storage shed full of just about every tool you could imagine. He was one of those guys who thought he could fix anything, but it never worked out quite as well as he planned. He was more of a visionary than a nuts -and bolts kind of guy.