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• To me, a leader is a visionary that energizes others. This definition of leadership has two key dimensions: a) creating the vision of the future, and b) inspiring others to make the vision a reality.

  Vince Lombardi

  Sports, Reality, Keys

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The work of the Spirit is the bringing to be of the vision of God....the capacitating of persons to 'see visions' and 'dream dreams'. .... The birth of the Church is the beginning of the End. ..... The Kingdom of God as the miracle of ocular newness when 'the blind see' makes its impact on history in the creation of a visionary community . [[The tongues were]] the language of the world to come... Therefore in this birth of the Church, the risen and ascended Lord takes to himself a Body on earth with eyes opened by the Spirit to see the future.

  Gabriel Fackre

  Dream, Eye, Impact

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• This, I thought, is how great visionaries and poets see everything- as if for the first time. Each morning they see a new world before their eyes; they do not really see it, they create it.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Morning, Eye, Perspective

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• COMPETITOR is one who can steal a few deals, but, the pinch of which, A VISIONARY Never feels...!

  Sujit Lalwani

  Stealing, Deals, Feels

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• We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary.

  Terence McKenna

  Intelligent, Mind Blowing, Noble

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