Quotes About Visionary

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.

Im so far ahead, I got to save the last dance.

I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?

To me, James Harden is like basketball's Picasso - he's an artist whose work you respect, even if you don't always understand its significance until later. (Or maybe Van Gogh or some other artist - I'm not an art history buff, but you get my point).

All of my heroes, like Dali, are people who pioneered various forms of cinema.

Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.

We believed the world didn't need another commoditized venture capital firm.

Crazy ideas sometimes work, and the technological society that we have is built on a foundation of those crazy ideas that work.

There are some very creative people out there who are like Steven Meisel, and that is why their work is so extraordinary.

My talent is getting things to work that people think are many decades in the future. I say we can make them happen now.

The ABCs of Death offers us a chance to work closely with a large number of visionary filmmakers to create a film with more jaw-dropping moments than a whole summer of blockbusters.

I want to work with producers who are unique and have a different sound.

The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.

I could go and buy one of the islands in theBahamas and turn it into my personal fiefdom, but I am much more interested in trying to build andcreate a new company.

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

I'm somebody who seems to stumble into things 10 or 20 years before the rest of the world does.

Rogers and Hammerstein were such a genius pair. They were able to touch on subject matter so far ahead of its time.

Realistic dreamer is not an oxymoron.

Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they'll turn out to be right.

But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.

You say: "I'm a blue sky thinker." Investor thinks: "You have no business model, and you don't know how to ship."

I never wanted to be a businessman, I just wanted to change the world

Among idealists and visionaries, there is no shortage of good intent, but there's often a shortage of discipline.

If you're looking where everybody else is looking, you're looking in the wrong spot.