The New Nordic diet originated in 2004, when the visionary chefs Rene Redzepi and Claus Meyer called a symposium of regional chefs to address the public's increasing consumption of processed foods, additives, highly refined grains, and mass-produced poultry and meat.

- Kate Christensen

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

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

- Steven Wright

There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.

- Shia LaBeouf

I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.

- Pat Benatar

Artists, musicians, scientists - if you have any kind of visionary aptitude, it's often something that you don't have a choice in. You have to do it.

- Patti Smith

What is obnoxious about the motives of politicians - whatever those motives may be - is that politicians must announce their motives as visionary and grand.

- P. J. O'Rourke

I'm very visionary, very big picture.

- Max Azria

I don't see myself as a visionary at all.

- Linus Torvalds

I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals.

- Linus Torvalds

Shortly after Pearl Harbor, FDR committed a most visionary act: He appointed a Harvard historian to write the official account of the U.S. Navy in World War II. Samuel Eliot Morison was given the rank of lieutenant commander, with the right to interview anyone of whatever status.

- Alistair Horne

As I have said many times - I like Facebook. I think it is well built and run. It's cool. I think it is, in its next-step way, even visionary.

- Kara Swisher

Oh, I was never a businessman. I was a visionary, a dreamer.

- Jim Bakker

I'm a visionary. I'm not a maintenance person.

- John Catsimatidis

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

To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.

- Hubert H. Humphrey

I love Kanye West. I think he's a visionary. He's one of those people for whom I separate his personality from his artistry.

- Halsey

Frank Miller is more of a visionary than any director I've ever worked with, and he achieves that vision better than anyone I've ever worked with.

- Gabriel Macht

Here's how I work: It's 2013, and most marketers are operating like it's 2009. I'm always trying to market like it's 2015, but not like it's 2020. A lot of my contemporaries who understand where the world is going, go too far out, and aren't practical. I have always prided myself on being visionary, with a heavy practicality.

- Gary Vaynerchuk

I have tremendous faith in President Obama's skills. He's a long-term visionary.

- Deepak Chopra