Famous Quotes & Sayings

Coco Chanel

Winston [ Churchill] is a dandy and a visionary. Unfortunately, in winning wars, principles are inevitably debased. That's politics.

Bill Viola

Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude. It's no coincidence that the desert has been a major part of the visionary or mystical experience from the beginning of time.

Bruno Heller

There is a place for visionaries and the avant-garde in this world, but not at 9 o'clock on a network.

Arthur Rock

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

Elizabeth Bowen

The short story is at an advantage over the novel, and can claim its nearer kinship to poetry, because it must be more concentrated, can be more visionary, and is not weighed down (as the novel is bound to be) by facts, explanation, or analysis. I do not mean to say that the short story is by any means exempt from the laws of narrative: it must observe them, but on its own terms.

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

Aldous Huxley

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.

Aldous Huxley

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

Anais Nin

Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.

Anita Roddick

Entrepreneurs are visionaries - they see things other people don't see.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, an inspiratrice, an intuitive, a maker, a creator, an inventor, and a listener who guide, suggest, and urge vibrant life in the inner and outer world.

Conan O'Brien

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

Peter Slipper

Pope Benedict is an amazingly visionary person. What he has done is establish an evolutionary process that will help undo the Reformation. The Anglican Church has been hijacked by modernism, with synods trying to amend the faith and this process will allow traditional Anglicans to be themselves.

Steven Wright

I'm a peripheral visionary.

Steven Wright

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

Marc Andreessen

With lower start-up costs and a vastly expanded market for online services, the result is a global economy that for the first time will be fully digitally wired-the dream of every cyber-visionary of the early 1990s, finally delivered, a full generation later

Shia LaBeouf

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

Steve Tisch

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

Stan Brakhage

It is just seeing-it is a very simple word-and to be a visionary is to be a seer. The problem is that most people can't see.

Tim Cook

Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being.

Robert Metcalfe

Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them.

Robert Baden-Powell

Girls should be brought up to be comrades and helpers, not to be dolls. They should take a real and not a visionary share in the welfare of the nation.

Renzo Piano

As an architect you are a builder. You are of course more than a builder. You need to be a militant, you have to be a poet, you have to be a visionary, you have to be an artist. But certainly you have to be a builder. Everything starts from there.

Ron Chernow

Because of the love affair between the American public and the stock market, it is possible for entrepreneurs, technological visionaries and inventors of every sort to get financing.

Reid Hoffman

One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing they’re doing as something that’s going to be the whole world.

Thomas Jefferson

Would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm on the theoretic and visionary fear that this Government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not.

Tadashi Yanai

Konosuke Matsushita was a visionary entrepreneur. He started working very young as a teenager, and he eventually created Panasonic to become a truly global company.

Eoin Colfer

Other men look up and down, left and right; but men like us are different. We are visionaries.

Esther Dyson

Listening to other companies' customers is the best way to gain market share, while listening to the visionaries is the best way to create new markets.

Esther Hicks

A visionary thrives under all conditions.

Esther Hicks

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

Jim Jarmusch

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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.