Visionaries are limited by their visions.
The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.
It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.
Visionary people are visionary partly because of the very great many things they don't see.
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
I love art dealers. In some ways, they're my favorite people in the art world. Really. I love that they put their money where their taste is, create their own aesthetic universes, support artists, employ people, and do all of this while letting us see art for free. Many are visionaries.
Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
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.
Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.
To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me.
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.
You can't do it unless you can imagine it.
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important.
Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.
There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
Looking up gives light, although at first it makes you dizzy.
Personally, I don't think the film and television industries are run as well as they used to be. Oh sure, we've got great digital effects now but... where are the visionaries?
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