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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.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Thinking, Luxury, Brilliant

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Commit to Excellence. Become massively innovative and wear your passion on your sleeve. They might call you different or weird or even crazy. But please remember, every great leader (or visionary or brave thinker) was initially laughed at. Now they are revered.

Robin Sharma

Crazy, Passion, Leader

Robin Sharma (2006). “The Greatness Guide: One of the World's Most Successful Coaches Shares His Secrets for Personal and Business Mastery”, p.23, Jaico Publishing House

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In the century now dawning, spirituality, visionary consciousness, and the ability to build and mend human relationships will be more important for the fate and safety of this nation than our capacity to forcefully subdue an enemy. Creating the world we want is a much more subtle but more powerful mode of operation than destroying the one we don't want.

Marianne Williamson

Powerful, Fate, Creating

Marianne Williamson (2014). “Healing the Soul of America: Reclaiming Our Voices as Spiritual Citizens”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

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The Holy Night We sate among the stalls at Bethlehem; The dumb kine from their fodder turning them, Softened their horned faces To almost human gazes Toward the newly Born: The simple shepherds from the star-lit brooks Brought visionary looks, As yet in their astonied hearing rung The strange sweet angel-tongue: The magi of the East, in sandals worn, Knelt reverent, sweeping round, With long pale beards, their gifts upon the ground, The incense, myrrh, and gold These baby hands were impotent to hold: So let all earthlies and celestials wait Upon thy royal state. Sleep, sleep, my kingly One!

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sweet, Baby, Stars

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NY is the city it is today in part because of the contributions from generations of artistic visionaries

Bill de Blasio

Cities, Generations, Today

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A visionary may see, but a leader must decide.

J. Oswald Sanders

Leader, May, Spiritual Leadership

J. Oswald Sanders (2007). “Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer”, p.59, Moody Publishers

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Visionaries not only believe that the impossible can be done, but that it must be done.

Bran Ferren

Believe, Done, Impossible

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Gregg Braden is a rare blend of a scientist, visionary, and scholar, with the ability to speak to our minds, while touching the wisdom of our hearts.

Deepak Chopra

Heart, Touching, Mind

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I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Hard Times, Reality, Thinking

Ursula K. Le Guin (2018). “Dreams Must Explain Themselves: The Selected Non-Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin”, p.441, Hachette UK

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Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be done.

H. G. Wells

Dream, Clouds, Land

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Ah, in this world, where every guiding thread Ends suddenly in the one sure centre, death, The visionary hand of Might-have-been Alone can fill Desire's cup to the brim!

James Russell Lowell

Regret, Hands, Desire

James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.88

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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.

James F. Cooper

Principles, Way, Lasts

"The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James F. Cooper, 1838.

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I'm very visionary, very big picture.

Max Azria

Bigs, Big Picture

"A Fashionable Life: Max & Lubov Azria" by Marshall Heyman, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 12, 2009.

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I have always believed that the material world is governed by nonmaterial sources, so that in that sense 'English Music' is an exercise in the spiritual as well as the material. I have always been attracted to the Gothic and spiritual imagination, and I've always been interested in visionaries.

Peter Ackroyd

Spiritual, Exercise, Imagination

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

Conan O'Brien

Financial, Republican, Stealing

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Paranoia imposes its own vision on the external world; it differs from other kinds of visionary experience in that the paranoid wants others to share his view—even insists on it. Paranoia is very like poetic creativity. This accounts for my fascination with certain people in whom this state of mind was evident: ‘characters’ met by chance, whose words and gestures would haunt me for years until, finally, in a poem I was able to dispel them.

Louis Simpson

Creativity, Character, Views

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

Steve Tisch

Art, Sense Of Humor, Makers

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The revelatory or visionary is the province of the 'private' artist, who in order to render his personal world comprehensible or even tolerable, must force others to believe in it and therefore share it. It is said that 'the poet does not wish to be understood, but to be believed.

Kenneth Coutts-Smith

Believe, Artist, Order

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Cathy Clamp is a visionary author, creating new worlds that are both strong and vividly drawn. Adventure and excitement at its best.

Yasmine Galenorn

Strong, Adventure, Creating

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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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Art, Arms, Rebel

"The Victorian Age in Literature". Book by G. K. Chesterton, Ch I: The Victorian Compromise and Its Enemies, p. 8, 1913.

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[John] Calvin treats experience as essentially visionary and revelatory from moment to moment, addressed to the individual perceiver, the individual soul. Where this is assumed preconceptions can only distract and obscure, though, of course, as human beings we can never wholly free ourselves of them.

Marilynne Robinson

Soul, Moments, Obscure

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Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Political, Promise, Liberty

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

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...perhaps the most distinguishing trait of visionary leaders is that they believe in a goal that benefits not only themselves, but others as well. It is such vision that attracts the psychic energy of other people, and makes them willing to work beyond the call of duty for the organization.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Inspirational, Business, Work

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A visionary is someone who can see the future, or thinks he sees the future. In my case, I use it and it comes out right. That doesn't come from daydreams or dreams, but it comes from knowing the market and knowing the world and knowing people really well and knowing where they're going to be tomorrow.

Leonard Lauder

Dream, Thinking, Knowing

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When the world is in the midst of change, when adversity and opportunity are almost indistinguishable, this is the time for visionary leadership and when leaders need to look beyond the survival needs of those they're serving.

Chip Conley

Adversity, Opportunity, Leader

Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. June 28, 2011.

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