#visionary

There is some advantage in having imagination, since that visionary faculty opens the mental eyes to facts that more practical and duller intellects could never see. ↗

— E.D.E.N. Southworth

#visionary #wisdom #imagination

Victor Vigny: A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon. Conor Broekhart: Which resembles a giant banana. ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#humour #inspirational #monkey #moon #visionary

In order to survive as a race, as a planet, you must learn to share light. There is no other way. ↗

— Joanna Gawn

#metaphysical #visionary #metaphysics

In my view, a political vision is not a grab-bag of discrete problems and solutions. It is the visionary anticipation of a direction. ↗

— Roberto Unger

#direction #discrete #political #problems #solutions

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side. ↗

— Steven Wright

#future #i #off #only #peripheral

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

— Eric Hoffer

#language #leader #must #practical #realist

I'm very visionary, very big picture. ↗

— Max Azria

#big picture #i #picture #very #visionary

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

#desire #experience #firmest #foundations #founded

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

— Malcolm Gladwell

#paper #sheet #starts #visionary #world

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 #because #call #existent #false