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As an architect you are a builder. You are of course more than a builder. You need to be a militant, you have to be a poet, you have to be a visionary, you have to be an artist. But certainly you have to be a builder. Everything starts from there.
Renzo Piano
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The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.
Murray Bookchin
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The writer is the visionary of his people... He anticipates, he warns.
Wole Soyinka
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The visionary is the one who brings his or her voice into the world and who refuses to edit, rehearse, perform, or hide. It is the visionary who knows that the power of creativity is aligned with authenticity.
Angeles Arrien
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I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.
Jim Jarmusch
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As we passed on, it seemed those scenes of visionary enchantment would never have an end.
Meriwether Lewis
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Steve Jobs is a national treasure. He is so visionary, and so bright. I had to fire him, though.
Arthur Rock
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The idea that I should become President seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my head, nor is it likely to enter the head of any other person.
Zachary Taylor
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A mad person sees what isn't there; A visionary sees what isn't there yet
Judith Thurman
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Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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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
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I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.
Steven Wright
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A universal peace, it is to be feared, is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary philosophers, or in the breasts of benevolent enthusiasts.
James Madison
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My Vocabularies vary, its so exclusionary You'll find my baby pictures in modern dictionaries Next to mighty mercenaries, and visual visionaries
Andre Nickatina
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COMPETITOR is one who can steal a few deals, but, the pinch of which, A VISIONARY Never feels...!
Sujit Lalwani
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Visionaries and dreamers have always been dusted with a little oddity.
Trevor Baylis
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Without strong visionary leadership, no strategy will be executed effectively.
Robert S. Kaplan
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The visionary who is serving God ceases to live for personal ambitions, but rather for God's ambitions.
George Barna
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I wouldn’t want to be labelled unless it was something much broader and inclusive such as an ecological artist or a visionary artist, but there’s a constraint in the definition of a feminist artist, you’re an artist and you’re a feminist.
Carolee Schneemann
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This 'flying saucer' situation is not at all imaginary or seeing too much in some natural phenomena. Something is really flying around. The phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictitious.
Nathan Farragut Twining
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Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality.
Leonard Shlain
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When a figure painter executes a landscape he treats it as if it were a face; Degas' landscapes are unparalleled because they are visionary landscapes.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.
Martin Scorsese
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I think I'm a whole lot to handle. I definitely am, on every aspect. I'm the video director. I'm the graphics designer. I'm the rapper. I'm the visionary. I'm the music producer. I'm the executive producer. I'm just going to end it off to be poetic: I'm the future of music.
Kanye West
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A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable.
James C. Collins
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The word griot...is the word for what I do and the role that the filmmaker has in society...the griot is a messenger of one's time, a visionary and the creator of the future.
Djibril Diop Mambety
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Truly visionary and successful companies have discovered that there is no conflict between the pursuit of profit and having a pursuit beyond profit.
David Maister
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It is in the nature of democracies, perhaps, that while visionaries are sometimes necessary to make them, once made they can be managed by mediocrities.
Ramachandra Guha
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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
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I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.
Pat Benatar
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One who is mostly an observer thrives in good times but suffers in bad times because what he is observing is already vibrating, and as he observes it, he includes it in his vibrational countenance. As he includes it, the Universe accepts that as his point of attraction and gives him more of it. So the better it gets the better it gets. Or the worse it gets the worse it gets. While one who is a visionary thrives in all times.
Esther Hicks
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Visionaries see the "impossible" as the inevitable.
Robin Sharma
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He [Prince] changed the world!!A true visionary.What a loss.I'm devastated.
Madonna Ciccone
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Succeed and you are a brilliant visionary. Fail and you are a delusional loser.
Don Dodge
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Visionaries not only believe that the impossible can be done, but that it must be done.
Bran Ferren
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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
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Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being.
Tim Cook
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With lower start-up costs and a vastly expanded market for online services, the result is a global economy that for the first time will be fully digitally wired - the dream of every cyber-visionary of the early 1990s, finally delivered, a full generation later
Marc Andreessen
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Konosuke Matsushita was a visionary entrepreneur. He started working very young as a teenager, and he eventually created Panasonic to become a truly global company.
Tadashi Yanai
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We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary.
Terence McKenna
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Oh, I was never a businessman. I was a visionary, a dreamer.
Jim Bakker
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In proportion as our cares are employed upon the future, they are abstracted from the present, from the only time which we can call our own, and of which, if we neglect the apparent duties to make provision against visionary attacks, we shall certainly counteract our own purpose.
Samuel Johnson
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Are you responsibly optimistic? Pessimism and leadership do not mix. Leaders are positively visionary.
J. Oswald Sanders
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Visionary people are visionary partly because of the very great many things they don't see.
Berkeley Rice