Quotes About Visionary

It is always great to see technology leaders like Ginni Rometty, Marissa Mayer, and Meg Whitman breaking through as a new generation of leaders.

We wanted to do something really, really different, something next level, and use new technology and things.

I'm always that dude that's looking for the next thing.

Genius, it is said, is the ability to see the obvious before anyone else.4

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter — for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes.

There is something within me that might be illusion as it is often case with young delighted people, but if I would be fortunate to achieve some of my ideals, it would be on the behalf of the whole of humanity.

The recurrence of a phenomenon like [Thomas] Edison is not very likely. The profound change of conditions and the ever increasing necessity of theoretical training would seem to make it impossible. He will occupy a unique and exalted position in the history of his native land, which might well be proud of his great genius and undying achievements in the interest of humanity.

So, the image to start. The perception of the world as it is, the phantasm, the flare of the visionary idea is flattened to a page by the male intellect. Controlled, categorized, c-a-t-a-l-o-g-u-e-d. The ethereal is quashed. Address, that beautiful oration announcing itself, becomes a dress feebly worn, becomes a picture of a dress in a catalogue.

First, my love and thanks to Ben Smith, my Hollywood agent, who has been a true visionary in a job that is often maligned (in this book, for instance)

Pitt has always looked in the future and found it full of excitement and adventure. In the 1970s he was a man of the '80s. Now he is a man of the '90s. Like a scout out for a wagon train, Pitt looks over the next hill and tells us what's there. He sees what we'd all like to see in our imaginations.

Someone was high or brilliant or both.

The kitchen table was something visionary, austere; something bare, hard, not ornamental. There was no colour to it; it was all edges and angles; it was uncompromisingly plain.

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for people telling you that you are nuts.

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.

It is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition.

A pioneer is not someone who makes her own soap. She is one who takes up her burdens and walks toward the future.

A good model can advance fashion by ten years.

This individual must focus on idealistic callings and activities that uplift others, cultivating faith and spirituality. This is the Mystic, Hermit, Visionary, and Intuitive.

A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper.

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.

Every crisis, actual or impending, needs to be viewed as an opportunity to bring about profound changes in our society. Going beyond protest organizing, visionary organizing begins by creating images and stories of the future that help us imagine and create alternatives to the existing system.

A liberal is a man who is right most of the time, but he's right too soon.

Steve [Jobs] proves that it's OK to be an asshole... He just has a different OS.

People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world usually do. Here's to the crazy ones, the ones who do.