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• Donald Trump and Mike Pence will restore the American dream for the next would-be visionary from small-town America.

  Harold Hamm

  Dream, America, Next

  "Presidential Candidates Hold Starkly Different Views On Energy". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. September 23, 2016.

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• 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.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Mean, Law, Narrative

  Elizabeth Bowen (1959). “Stories”

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• The word griot...is the word for what I do and the role that the filmmaker has in society...the griot is a messenger of one's time, a visionary and the creator of the future.

  Djibril Diop Mambety

  Roles, Messengers, Filmmaker

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• Only an artist as preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd as Richard Artschwager would be able to lay out the whole course of human evolution and have it make some kind of sense while also seeming like a dazzling insight.

  Jerry Saltz

  Artist, Would Be, Able

  "Jerry Saltz on Richard Artschwager, 1923-2013". www.vulture.com. February 9, 2013.

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• I was a lousy academic. I spent most of my time in the cafeteria. But I met fantastic people from all kinds of fields; law, medicine, history, and they eventually dispersed all over the world to do their fieldwork. I liked the way these people committed to the long term in a sincere, visionary way. Their projects weren't about "next season." They were ten-year commitments. They were lifestyle choices that had traditions of fieldwork built into them - moving around, living on location, discipline, a real rigor for research.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Real, Moving, Commitment

  Source: www.believermag.com

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Political, Pageantry

  Aldous Huxley (1956). “Heaven and hell”

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• Asceticism, it is evident, has a double motivation. If men and women torment their bodies, it is not only because they hope in this way to atone for past sins and avoid future punishments; it is also because they long to visit the mind's antipodes and do some visionary sightseeing.

  Aldous Huxley

  Motivation, Men, Past

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• 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.

  Angeles Arrien

  Creativity, Voice, World

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• 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.

  Aldous Huxley

  Mystical Experiences, Opposites, Heaven

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• 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.

  Bill O'Brien

  Giving, Leader, Mind

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

  Michael Wilbon

  Lombardi, Bills, Innovators

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• Truly visionary and successful companies have discovered that there is no conflict between the pursuit of profit and having a pursuit beyond profit.

  David Maister

  Inspiring, Successful, Professionalism

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• I'm not a visionary, but I've spent half my life drawing things Imagined, Remembered, and Observed, comparing the differences between them, and my study confirms that "the difference between night and day / is not as great as people say."

  Peter Blegvad

  Night, Drawing, Differences

  Interview with Franklin Bruno, believermag.com. November 1, 2009.

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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.

  Marlon Wayans

  Thinking, Directors, Want

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I want people to know about these visionary artists. I want people to know what they stand for and (that) they are representing something unique, something fresh. I am just so excited about their careers.

  Janelle Monae

  Artist, Unique, Careers

  "Janelle Monae: 'Silence is our enemy, and sound is our weapon'". Interview with Brittany Vickers, www.cnn.com. October 22, 2015.

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• 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.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Girl, Real, Dolls

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• Statesman create; ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it; a statesman must be a visionary and an educator.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Leader, Politics, Ordinary

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• Gerry Fialka's annual PXL THIS is a reliably surprising and seductive round-up of recent work achieved with the PXL 2000 camera. This humble outdated “toy” continues to bring out the visionary child in filmmakers and viewers alike, and no one has kept the PXL flame burning longer or brighter than Gerry.

  Michael Almereyda

  Children, Humble, Flames

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• An entrepreneur is someone who, almost artistically, designs a living entity which embodies the values, beliefs, and ambitions of the creator. It's impossible for a larger entity to swallow a smaller one without completely reshaping it. When this process begins, a wild visionary - the entrepreneur type - is the most toxic, indigestible actor imaginable. And this is why I roll my eyes when a new acquisition is announced: Because I don't see it as a triumphant graduation but a sacrifice to an industry that is afraid to dream big.

  Jake Lodwick

  Dream, Ambition, Eye

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• Fantasy is a product of thought, Imagination of sensibility. If the thinking, discursive mind turns to speculation, the result isFantasy; if, however, the sensitive, intuitive mind turns to speculation, the result is Imagination. Fantasy may be visionary, but it is cold and logical. Imagination is sensuous and instinctive. Both have form, but the form of Fantasy is analogous to Exposition, that of Imagination to Narrative.

  Herbert Read

  Thinking, Imagination, Mind

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• Most men have a sunny spot to which they look back in their existence, as most have an impossible future, to attain which all their energies are exerted, and their resources employed. The difference between these visionary scenes is this, that they think a good deal of the latter, but talk a good deal of the former.

  George Whyte-Melville

  Book, Men, Thinking

  George John Whyte-Melville (1899). “Works”

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• Inwardness is the characteristic feature of the vegetable rather than the animal approach to existence. The animals move, migrate and swarm, while plants hold fast. Plants live in a dimension characterised by solid state, the fixed and the enduring. If there is movement in the consciousness of plants then it must be the movement of spirit and attention in the domain of vegetal imagination. (...) This is the truth that the shamans have always known and practiced. Awareness of the green side of mind was called Veriditas by the twelfth century visionary Hildegard Von Bingen.

  Terence McKenna

  Moving, Animal, Vegetables

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• CROUCHING TIGER is nevertheless a gloriously big epic, starring the Hong Kong action stars Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeoh in a visionary adventure where the characters seem set free from the force of gravity.

  Roger Ebert

  Stars, Character, Adventure

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• Successful visionaries start from where they are, what they have, and what their customers have.

  Tom Gilb

  Successful, Customers

  Tom Gilb (2005). “Competitive Engineering: A Handbook For Systems Engineering, Requirements Engineering, and Software Engineering Using Planguage”, p.310, Butterworth-Heinemann

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• We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.

  Terence McKenna

  Fighting, Intelligent, Icons

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