Top 356 Visionary Quotes & Sayings

General Sheryl Gordon is a trailblazer and visionary leader.

I'm a visionary. I'm not a maintenance person.

The artist's mission is to make the soul perceptible. Our scientific, materialist culture trains us to develop the eyes of outer perception. Visionary art encourages the development of our inner sight. To find the visionary realm, we use the intuitive inner eye: The eye of contemplation; the eye of the soul. All the inspiring ideas we have as artists originate here.

John Kitzhaber was a visionary leader for Oregon.

We need to be visionary; we have to be bold.

I think having a visionary CEO is awesome, and visionary leadership is one thing, but you also need checks and balances on whether this company can withstand a very honest and critical look at itself.

Paul Cummins is a genius. He's a true visionary.

A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable. A visionary company doesn't simply balance between preserving a tightly held core ideology and stimulating vigorous change and movement; it does both to an extreme.

He [Prince] changed the world!!A true visionary.What a loss.I'm devastated.

A leader should be a visionary and have more foresight than an employee.

Succeed and you are a brilliant visionary. Fail and you are a delusional loser.

I am neither romantic nor a visionary, and that is my weakness and perhaps my power; at any rate it is one difference. In less romantic and visionary terms, I am a Jew, (with powers of introspection and eclecticism attendant, perhaps.) But I am alien to your natural grace, to the spirit which you would know as a participator in America.

The point about Roosevelt's New Deal was that it was visionary - for the 1930s.

O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.

There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.

You don’t have to have vision to be a visionary

I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.

Guatemala commends the visionary decision of the citizens of Colorado and Washington

Lombardi, Shula, Landry and Gibbs were innovators. Bill Walsh was a visionary . . . .

We need to do what I call visionary organizing. Recognize that in every crisis, people do not respond like a school of fish. Some people become immobilized. Some people become very angry, some commit suicide, and other people begin to find solutions. And visionary organizers look at those people, recognize them and encourage them, and they become leaders of the future.

Oh, I was never a businessman. I was a visionary, a dreamer.

COMPETITOR is one who can steal a few deals, but, the pinch of which, A VISIONARY Never feels...!

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

I have spoken so far only of the blissful visionary experience? But visionary experience is not always blissful. It's sometimes terrible. There is hell as well as heaven.

Visionary art sure has played a vital role in my own "soul's journey," and I would say it's been important for many artists and viewers throughout history. Visionary art is one of the primary ways that human contact with higher subtle dimensions gets translated into our communally shared physical dimension.

The visionary is the one who brings his or her voice into the world and who refuses to edit, rehearse, perform, or hide. It is the visionary who knows that the power of creativity is aligned with authenticity.

The visionary imagination is the source of art and religion.

I'm a peripheral visionary.

I think leaders lead themselves, but leaders have ideas and maybe they're visionary ideas. Probably today, people would say Steve Jobs was a visionary because he invented this little gadget, the cell phone. But he didn't invent cell phones, and he didn't design the cell phone. He just took a couple of ideas and put them together, and no one else put those same ideas together as successfully as he did. But he had something that he was trying to do that intrigued him, and he could do it very well.

In a climate of uncertainty and fear, without strong and visionary leadership, people panic.

Michael Cole is a visionary!

Faith isn't blind, it's visionary

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

A visionary thrives under all conditions.

I don't see myself as a visionary at all.

Working with Spike Lee was a dream of mine. It was amazing to be able to collaborate with such a visionary.

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

A visionary may see, but a leader must decide.

I never saw the gold plates, only in a visionary or entranced state.

If you want to be a visionary, go out and have some accidents!

It is through beauty, poetry and visionary power that the world will be renewed.

As we passed on, it seemed those scenes of visionary enchantment would never have an end.

Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality.

My advice is never let a publicist call you a 'visionary.' I've hung out with the visionaries at the famed Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. I've been a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur. I wouldn't touch 'visionary' with a 10-foot pole.

The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other.

The techniques of being an Internet visionary are just like those of lower-tech fortunetellers through the ages. A technological visionary must tell people what they want to hear, because your company's stock won't rise if you spout an unpopular vision to analysts.

I'm a product of this visionary mother and father.

How will I be remembered? As a technician or artist? As a humorist or a visionary?

I have tremendous faith in President Obama's skills. He's a long-term visionary.

Visionary experience is not the same as mystical experience. Mystical experience is beyond the realm of opposites. Visionary experience is still within that realm. Heaven entails hell, and 'going to heaven' is no more liberation than is the descent into horror. Heaven is merely a vantage point from which the divine Ground can be more clearly seen than on the level of ordinary individual experience.

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

The writer is the visionary of his people... He anticipates, he warns.

I don't know whether I can call myself a visionary.

The visionary is the only realist.

Are you responsibly optimistic? Pessimism and leadership do not mix. Leaders are positively visionary.

Visionary people are visionary partly because of the very great many things they don't see.

Being a visionary leader is not about giving speeches and inspiring the troops. How I spend my day is pretty much the same as how any executive spends his day. Being a visionary leader is about solving day-to-day problems with my vision in mind.

Without strong visionary leadership, no strategy will be executed effectively.

You don't need vision to be a visionary.

There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.