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• But the question we should ask ourselves is, who is the next visionary leader of America? How do we have the aspiration and inspire Americans to reach their highest level? We need a president that does so.

  Tim Scott

  America, Leader, Inspire

  "Interview with Representative Tim Scott". Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 12, 2012.

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• All poetry is an ordered voice, one which tries to tell you about a vision in the un-visionary language of farm, city, and love.

  Paul Engle

  Love, Cities, Voice

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• Going back to the moon is not visionary in restoring space leadership for America. Like its Apollo predecessor, it will prove to be a dead end littered with broken spacecraft, broken dreams and broken policies.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Dream, Moon, America

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• 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.

  Stan Brakhage

  Simple, People, Problem

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• Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.

  Jerry Saltz

  World, Tools, Imagine

  "Ask an Art Critic: Jerry Saltz Answers Your Questions About George Condo, Online Art Fairs, and What Abstraction Really Is" by Jerry Saltz, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 24, 2011.

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• All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Greek, Literature

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.58, University of Virginia Press

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• The world has lost a visionary leader, a courageous voice for justice, and a clear moral compass. By showing us that the path to freedom and human dignity lies in love, wisdom and compassion for one another, Nelson Mandela stands as an inspiration to us all.

  Kofi Annan

  Lying, Inspiration, Compassion

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• The techniques of being an Internet visionary are just like those of lower-tech fortunetellers through the ages. A technological visionary must tell people what they want to hear, because your company's stock won't rise if you spout an unpopular vision to analysts.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  People, Vision, Age

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• Margaret Thatcher was a 20th century visionary who understood the power of individual freedom versus the tyranny of government collectivism. She was a loyal supporter and friend of the United States and her terms as prime minister were marked as the beginning of the resurgence of the economy of the United Kingdom.

  Joe Lhota

  Government, Loyal, Kingdoms

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

  Shia LaBeouf

  Rooms, Studios

  "Shia LaBeouf 'done' with big-budget movies: Who should quit Hollywood?". www.foxnews.com. August 17, 2012.

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• We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country.

  Jay Inslee

  Country, Earth Day, Environmental

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• Today, people idolize athletes and celebrities - and yes, highly successful and visionary business people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but not the innovators who perhaps have not seen such high-flying levels of success. Can anyone name the inventors of GPS, which has such a huge impact on our lives today?

  Naveen Jain

  Jobs, Athlete, Successful

  "Bring Back America’s Spirit of Innovation and Entrepreneurship" by Naveen Jain, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2011.

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• The girls took into their own hands decisions better left to God. They became too powerful to live among us, too self-concerned, too visionary, too blind.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Girl, Powerful, Self

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.242, Macmillan

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• 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.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Oracles, World, Guides

  "Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype". Book by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 1992.

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• There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.

  William E. Gladstone

  Loyalty, Freedom, Order

  1879 Speech, West Calder, 27 Nov.

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• Women are the primary resource of the planet. They give birth, we come from them. They are mothers, they are visionaries, they are the future. If we can figure out how to make women feel safe and honor women, it would be parallel or equal to honoring life itself.

  Eve Ensler

  Mother, Giving, Honor

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• The loneliness of a visionary is that you might be the only one in the universe at that time who recognizes magic. I'm a magical person, and so I recognize other magical people. It takes ones to know one.

  Kim Fowley

  Loneliness, People, Magic

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• I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals.

  Linus Torvalds

  Thinking, Goal, Bigs

  "The Peacemaker" by David Diamond, www.wired.com. July 01, 2003.

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• A statement of vision is the overarching purpose, the big dream, the visionary concept-something presently out of reach-so stated that it excites the imagination and chlalenges people to work for something they do not yet know how to do.

  Robert K. Greenleaf

  Dream, People, Imagination

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• To draw a tree, to pay such close attention to every aspect of a tree, is an act of reverence not only toward the tree, and toward the earth itself, but also our human connection to it. This is one of the magical things about drawing - it gives us almost visionary moments of connectedness.

  Alan Lee

  Drawing, Giving, Tree

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A leader should be a visionary and have more foresight than an employee.

  Jack Ma

  Leadership, Business, Should

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• It is the fable of Jesus Christ, as told in the New Testament, and the wild and visionary doctrine raised thereon, against which I contend. The story, taking it as it is told, is blasphemously obscene.

  Thomas Paine

  Religious, Jesus, Father

  Thomas Paine (1875). “The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology”, p.154

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• Many persons are always kept poor, because they are too visionary. Every project looks to them like certain successes, and therefore they keep changing from one business to another, always in hot water, always ‘under the harrow’.

  P. T. Barnum

  Success, Business, Water

  P. T. Barnum (2006). “Art of Money Getting: Easyread Edition”, p.26, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Steve was among the greatest of American innovators - brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it...The world has lost a visionary. And there may be no greater tribute to Steve's success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Thinking, Passing On

  "Tributes to Steve Jobs", www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2011.

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• What visionary tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air Or numbly cling and shiver to be gone! How shimmer the low flats and pastures bare, As with her nectar Hebe Autumn fills The bowl between me and those distant hills, And smiles and shakes abroad her misty, tremulous hair!

  James Russell Lowell

  Fall, Autumn, Hair

  James Russell Lowell (2012). “The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell, With a Biographical Sketch and Notes, a Portrait and Other Illustrations”, p.67, tredition

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