Visionaries Quotes

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  The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Leadership, Writing, Creativity

  "The Tweaker" by Malcolm Gladwell, www.newyorker.com. November 14, 2011.

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• Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.

  Bill Hybels

  Leadership, People, Creative

  Bill Hybels (2009). “Who You Are When No One's Looking: Choosing Consistency, Resisting Compromise”, p.47, InterVarsity Press

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• Dreamers dream about things being different. Visionaries envision themselves making a difference.

  Andy Stanley

  Dream, Differences, Being Different

  Andy Stanley (2012). “Visioneering: Your Guide for Discovering and Maintaining Personal Vision”, p.36, Multnomah

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• The difference between a dreamer and a visionary is that a dreamer has his eyes closed and a visionary has his eyes open

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Eye, Differences, Dreamer

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• There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don't expect you to save the world I do think it's not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your life those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

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• Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.

  Robert Jarvik

  Inspirational, Leadership, Fear

  "At theNAT, building a family". Interview with Lisa Deaderick, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. June 4, 2016.

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• I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Thinking, Poetry, Way

  The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 199.

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• There is one thing more powerful than kings and all the soldiers in the world, and that is a visionary who has the courage to persevere.

  Paul Delaroche

  Perseverance, Kings, Powerful

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• If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Succeed and you are a brilliant visionary. Fail and you are a delusional loser.

  Don Dodge

  Succeed, Brilliant, Loser

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  The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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  There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

  Edith Wharton

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  "Vesalius in Zante (1564)" st. 12 (1902)

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• It's not what the vision is, it's what the vision does.

  Robert Fritz

  Business, Excellence, Vision

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• Remember, every great leader (or visionary or brave thinker) was initially laughed at. Now they are revered.

  Robin Sharma

  Leader, Brave, Vision

  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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• Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Love, Dream, Stars

  Theodore Roosevelt (1955). “Theodore Roosevelt's America: Selections from the Writings of the Oyster Bay Naturalist”

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• The more visionary the idea, the more people it leaves behind.

  Samantha Morton

  Dream, Ideas, People

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• A leader has to be one of two things: he either has to be a brilliant visionary himself, a truly creative strategist, in which case he can do what he likes and get away with it; or else he has to be a true empowerer who can bring out the best in others.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Two, Creative, Leader

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• Faith isn't blind, it's visionary

  Marianne Williamson

  Blind

  Marianne Williamson (2012). “The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Napoleon Hill (2016). “Napoleon Hill's Keys to Personal Achievement: An Official Publication of The Napoleon Hill Foundation”, p.88, Sound Wisdom

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• In order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Inspirational, Funny, Believe

  Television broadcast, CBS, 5 Oct. 1956

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• The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

  Eric Hoffer

  Leadership, Coaching, Vision

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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  The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

  Marcel Proust

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.

  Michael Dell

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Michael Dell: Taking The Direct Approach", www.entrepreneur.com. October 9, 2008.

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• You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Leadership, Blow, Common Vision

  Interview with Philip Scarpino, tobiascenter.iu.edu. January 6, 2009.

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• Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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