Arthur Rock
Venture Capitalist
"Steve Jobs is a national treasure. He is so visionary, and so bright. I had to fire him, though."
Visionaries quotes
Visionaries
111 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Meriwether Lewis
Explorer, Author
"As we passed on, it seemed those scenes of visionary enchantment would never have an end."
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Author, Statistician
"Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee."
Steven Wright
Comedian
"I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side."
Kanye West
Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
"I think I'm a whole lot to handle. I definitely am, on every aspect. I'm the video director. I'm the graphics designer. I'm the rapper. I'm the visionary. I'm the music producer. I'm the executive producer. I'm just going to end it off to be poetic: I'm the future of music."
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"One who is mostly an observer thrives in good times but suffers in bad times because what he is observing is already vibrating, and as he observes it, he includes it in his vibrational countenance. As he includes it, the Universe accepts that as his point of attraction and gives him more of it. So the better it gets the better it gets. Or the worse it gets the worse it gets. While one who is a visionary thrives in all times."
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"Visionaries see the "impossible" as the inevitable."
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"He [Prince] changed the world!!A true visionary.What a loss.I'm devastated."
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"We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary."
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"I am very excited to be supporting one of the world's most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question about our universe and what other civilisations may exist elsewhere."
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"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."
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"In proportion as our cares are employed upon the future, they are abstracted from the present, from the only time which we can call our own, and of which, if we neglect the apparent duties to make provision against visionary attacks, we shall certainly counteract our own purpose."
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"A leader should be a visionary and have more foresight than an employee."
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"O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change."
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"I want to do literally everything. I think I was gifted... I inherited one of the best comedy visionaries as a director."
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"All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent."
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"There is a place for visionaries and the avant-garde in this world, but not at 9 o'clock on a network."
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"Societies in decline have no use for visionaries."
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"Visionaries are limited by their visions."
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"A visionary thrives under all conditions."
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"When it comes to being visionary in stealing, the Republicans do better than anybody. It's really something to see."
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"Such is the pleasure of projecting that many content themselves with a succession of visionary schemes, and wear out their allotted time in the calm amusement of contriving what they never attempt or hope to execute."
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"I'm a peripheral visionary."
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"I think if everyone had the luxury to pursue a life of exactly what they love, we would all be ranked as visionaries and brilliant."
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"It is a quaint comment on the notion that the English are practical and the French merely visionary, that we were rebels in arts while they were rebels in arms."
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