Visionary Outlook Quotes

Creative people... are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity, sensitivity, and defenselessness for the gift of 'divine madness,' to borrow the term used by the classical Greeks.

Thoughtful people are concerned with the future because that is the only area of experience about which anything can be done. We cannot change the past, and the present is gone as soon as it is reported, but the future is that in which we can make a difference.

Creativity is the quality that you bring to the activity that you are doing. It is an attitude, an inner approach - how you look at things . . . Whatsoever you do, if you do it joyfully, if you do it lovingly, if your act of doing is not purely economical, then it is creative.

Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.

My call is not to those who believe they belong to the past. My call is to those who believe in the future.

I've always been more interested in the future than in the past.

They who look but little into futurity, have, perhaps, the quickest sensation of the present.

I'm always interested in what's next or what is the new kind of thinking.

Heroes, classical heroes have the look of eagles, too. They're looking beyond the immediate problem and into the future.

Prophetic pragmatism attempts to keep alive the sense of alternative ways of life and of struggle based on the best of the past. In this sense, the praxis of prophetic pragmatism is tragic action with revolutionary intent, usually reformist consequences and always visionary outlook.

Real change comes when people are enabled to use their thinking and their energy in a new way, using a different system of thought, different language, and having fresh visions of the future.

I don't think about the real future very much.

I've always been a strategy kind of guy. I like laying things out and having a plan. Maybe not always a plan, but an approach and a vibe.

There are people into whose heads it never enters to conceive of any better state of society than that which now exists.

Democratic nations care but little for what has been, but they are haunted by visions of what will be.