Top 1200 Visionary Leaders Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals.

Leaders who insulate themselves from others and choose to bear their burdens single-handedly are destined for loneliness and burnout. Leaders, like everyone else, need friends and perhaps in light of the load they carry, even more so.

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

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

I've been talking to people all over the country, city council members, grassroots leaders, party leaders, members in Congress - and you know what? The truth is I'll have something to say real soon.

The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers. ... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.

Visionary CEOs are product- and business-model-centric and extremely customer focused.

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

What we do at NASA is inspiring. It's reaching, it's visionary, and it inspires people on Earth to try hard things.

We want women leaders today as never before. Leaders who are not afraid to be called names and who are willing to go out and fight. I think women can save civilization. Women are persons.

Inexperienced leaders are quick to lead before knowing anything about the people they intend to lead. But mature leaders listen, learn and then lead.

Teams always have natural leaders on the pitch and natural leaders in footballing terms.

Talking to Republicans who aren't leaders - that's not very difficult both on anti-trust and on campaign finance reform. I think it's a lot more complicated when you talk to highly funded leaders - that's the innate, deeply problematic part of our politics.

Artists, musicians, scientists - if you have any kind of visionary aptitude, it's often something that you don't have a choice in. You have to do it.

There is one thing more powerful than kings and all the soldiers in the world, and that is a visionary who has the courage to persevere.

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

One of the lessons of leadership worth emphasizing is that you want to get to know other great leaders and take their advice. At some point in your development, it's only people who've been in the seat of having to be leaders who can help you in a deep way.

We all deserve to live in a world where our rights aren't violated at the whim of our leaders. It doesn't matter if our leaders are kings and queens, or the people who claim to save us from them.

The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.

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

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

It's a supporting role, and I relish the opportunity to take those relationships I've developed, the experiences I've developed, to carry the president's agenda to our nation's capital, to leaders there, but also to leaders in state capitals around America.

Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable.

The way you get leaders to care about issues of conscience is to apply political pressure. It's less a question of persuading leaders directly and more trying to build a social movement that holds their feet to the fire.

Respect for leaders by followers can't be mandated; it must be earned. It has to be given to leaders by their followers.

The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.

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

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

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

Prayerless leaders are like ship captains without compasses; they can make their best guess at which direction to go, but they have no assurance they are heading the right way. Prayer keeps leaders focused on the one absolutely consistent factor in life - God.

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

Some leaders of denominations are not of the Bride of Christ. They are leaders in a Church in which many have long since betrayed the Master. When they meet someone of the Underground Church, a martyr, they look at him strangely.

Great leaders inspire. They maintain a hopeful attitude, even in the face of discouraging setbacks, constant criticism and abundant opposition. People don't follow discouraged leaders. They follow those who persist with hope.

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

Good leaders organize and align people around what the team needs to do. Great leaders motivate and inspire people with why they're doing it. That's purpose. And that's the key to achieving something truly transformational.

To be a visionary parent, we need to keep working on ourselves, becoming forever new and improved.

I'm not much of a visionary guy when it comes to figuring out how to go about my career.

We expect our leaders to be godlike. But I feel that when people try to sanctify leadership, it puts it out of the realm of regular people. And that's where the greatest leaders come from - from the people.

Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.

Let go of a need for personal recognition. Heap kudos on others and they'll perform even better next time. Leaders are only as good as those who follow them and followers are at their best when leaders are quick to give credit for successes.

Steve Jobs is a national treasure. He is so visionary, and so bright. I had to fire him, though.

The core philosophy we share with leaders is that everyone can develop the qualities in themselves. We all have strengths, but where we have gaps, we can make small changes in our behavior that make a big difference in how others see us as leaders.

Art Modell was a visionary, a deal-maker and a friend. And he possessed a marvelous sense of humor.

Level 5 leaders are differentiated from other levels of leaders in that they have a wonderful blend of personal humility combined with extraordinary professional will. Understand that they are very ambitious; but their ambition, first and foremost, is for the company's success. They realize that the most important step they must make to become a Level 5 leader is to subjugate their ego to the company's performance. When asked for interviews, these leaders will agree only if it's about the company and not about them.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

Leaders don’t complain about what’s not working. Leaders celebrate what is working and work to amplify it.

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

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.

Every great advancement was once nothing more than a dream in the mind of a visionary.

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

You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.

By saying that leaders - male or female - have to look or act a certain way to be respected as role models, we are not only hurting those individuals but also reinforcing rigid benchmarks for the next generation of passionate, aspiring leaders, who are watching.

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.

The National Action Party, in many ways, emulated the PRI in the way in which it conducted itself in government, supporting corporatist leaders, supporting corrupt oil worker union leaders.

Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it.

Time to time I get together with the rabbis, with religious leaders, leaders of congregations, and I talk to them, and wherever a need arises, we do everything we can to meet those needs.

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

Vision w/o execution is just hallucination. You need the right combination of visionary + team that can execute

Paul, Luther, Wesley —what would these chosen ones of God be without the distinguishing and controlling element of prayer? They were leaders for God because mighty in prayer. They were not leaders because of brilliancy in thought, because exhaustless in resources, because of their magnificent culture or native endowment, but leaders because by the power of prayer they could command the power of God.

When it comes to being visionary in stealing, the Republicans do better than anybody. It's really something to see.