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Now they're all very practical visionaries.
And so suddenly, ladies and gentlemen, what has been the proposition of visionaries and poets down the ages becomes something we have to take seriously as a matter of public policy.
So the question is, what can the rest of us learn about fear from visionaries and young children?
In my experience, these rare visionaries who can think across the worlds of art, design and engineering have the ability to notice when others have provided enough of the miracles to bring the goal within reach.
They give birth, we come from them, they are mothers, they are visionaries, they are the future.
For sure, Vineet and all the other leaders that we studied were in fact visionaries.
And in this moment of extraordinary international uncertainty, when our multilateral institutions are paralyzed and our nation-states are in retreat, cities and their leaders are our new 21st-century visionaries.
But one of the things I do to remind myself of greater possibilities, is to learn from visionaries in other cities.
Brash, fun, funny, melodramatic -- a visual feast that plays on 40s and 50s conventions -- Tucker: the Man and His Dream couldn't be a better collaboration between visionaries: Coppola, Lucas, and Preston Tucker.
One of these visionaries was Britain’s Ebenezer Howard, who in 1898 coined the term “garden city” – which he defined as residential communities built around a mix of open spaces, parks, factories, and farms.
When the “European project” was thriving, only a few visionaries saw the need for centralizing more powers.
As a new Europe began showing its face, the single currency was the bright creation of visionaries who saw the chance of making an even tighter relationship between European countries.
Likewise, Altiero Spinelli, another of the EU’s founding fathers, wrote late in life that without visionary Europeans there would be no Europe, but without pragmatic statesmen, the visionaries would have gotten nowhere.
Education’s Moonshot MomentNEW YORK – Starting in the late 1940s, an exceptional group of visionaries responded to the devastation of World War II by coming together to build new institutions for a new world.
It is in the interest of established business leaders to help mentor and finance these visionaries, enabling them to flourish at home so that they do not set up shop abroad.
That is when visionaries, romantics, and true believers are driven by their beliefs to take risks that most of us would regard as foolhardy.
Europe’s leaders viewed themselves as visionaries when they created the euro.
With these visionaries now gone, Africa needs a new brain trust to inspire future generations of ethical and public-spirited researchers.
Before 1981, visionaries who thought about the impact of technology on society believed that the computer would allow a centralization of knowledge and power.
So this year is perhaps a good moment to appreciate the visionaries who have understood that sustainable progress relies on the development of new and better theories whose impact may not be fully grasped for decades – indeed, that may continue to ramify 100 years later.
The Dream of SpaceMore than 50 years ago, visionaries like the British science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke and the German (and American) rocket engineer Wernher von Braun laid out a series of steps for the journey into space.
However, they remain scientific visionaries because others built so effectively on their “work.”
The doves, represented by the leftist and centrist parties in the upcoming election, are generally not naive visionaries pursuing unrealistic dreams; nor do they believe that hostilities would cease if a peace agreement were signed and Israel withdrew from the West Bank.
Visionaries, such as Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Nelson Mandela, may inspire a demand for justice.
Indeed, East Asia seems to lack the equivalent of major EU architects like Jean Monnet and Robert Schuman – visionaries with the stature and political support needed to begin building a framework for regional peace in a time, like today, of great change.
When Britain’s naval visionaries confronted a rival in the form of the Kaiser’s Germany, they understood how power could thrive on financial fragility.
Then there are disruptive influences that percolate up from below: changing customer preferences and, even more important, outside visionaries seeking to transform and modernize the industry.
The second is the one preferred by political scientists and European visionaries: greater fiscal union among the 17 eurozone members, or, in blunt terms, German willingness to do for the eurozone what it did for eastern Germany – namely, write large checks for years to come.
It is absurd to suggest that European visionaries such as Adenauer and de Gaulle failed to realize the consequences of their decision to admit Turkey as an associate member of the EEC.
If matters turn out well, they look like statesmen and visionaries; if things go sour, it was their fault for not foreseeing the obvious and inevitable.