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  • What I notice about people who are gifted in filmmaking is that they're great thinkers. They engage with big ideas and they engage with people.

    Ideas   People   Bigs  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not my weakness. I am not interested if anyone knows whether or not I am familiar with big words, I am interested in trying to render big ideas in a simple way. I am interested in being understood not admired.

    Writing   Simple   Ideas  
  • I like to be right. I try not to miss the big ideas, forget the little ones, and try to get them right. End of job description.

    Jobs   Ideas   Missing  
  • Unless your campaign has a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night.

    Night   Ideas   Marketing  
  • Up to that time I never realized that I possessed any particular gift of discovery, but Lord Rayleigh, whom I always considered as an ideal man of science, had said so and if that was the case, I felt that I should concentrate on some big idea.

    Men   Discovery   Ideas  
    Nikola Tesla (2016). “My Inventions: And Other Writings”, p.40, Courier Dover Publications
  • I hate America. I hate this country. It’s just big ideas, and stories, and people dying, and people like you. The white cracker who wrote the national anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word 'free' to a note so high nobody can reach it. That was deliberate. Nothing on earth sounds less like freedom to me. You come to room 1013 over at the hospital, I'll show you America. Terminal, crazy and mean. I live in America, that’s hard enough, I don’t have to love it. You do that. Everybody’s got to love something.

    Country   Hate   Crazy  
    "Angels in America". Book by Tony Kushner, May, 1991.
  • The only big ideas I've ever had came from daydreaming, but modern life keeps people from daydreaming. Every moment of the day your mind is being occupied, controlled by someone else - at school, at work, watching television. Getting away from all that is really important. You need to just kick back in a chair and let your mind daydream.

    School   Ideas   People  
  • I've never had any big ideas about being the solo.

    Ideas   Solo   Bigs  
    "Ringo Starr: The Drums Are Where The Soul Is". Interview with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. January 15, 2010.
  • To finish first you have to first finish. Don't get in a position where you go back to go. What's interesting is that some guy whose grandfather was a lawyer and a judge-hurriedly going to Harvard Law with a wave of veterans-I was willing to go into so many different businesses. I was constantly going right into the other fellow's business and doing better than the other fellow did. The reason it was possible? Self-education- developing mental discipline, big ideas that really work.

    Law   Ideas   Self  
  • In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

  • What is the most powerful lever you can imagine? A big idea, but only if it's in the hands of a truly outstanding entrepreneur. It starts with the person and the idea, and then grows to the institution. All three are intertwined.

    Powerful   Hands   Ideas  
  • Small ideas that turn into big ideas - that really inspires me.

    Ideas   Inspire   Bigs  
    Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
  • I am not going to make promises I can't keep. I am not going to talk about big ideas like single-payer and then not level with people about how much it will cost.

    Ideas   People   Promise  
    Hillary Clinton's speech at the Clinton-Sanders Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, hosted by MSNBC, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2016.
  • But that initial, comet-blazing-across-the-sky, Big Idea is only the beginning. Each book is composed of a mosaic of thousands of little ideas, ideas that invariably come to me at two in the morning when my alarm is set for seven.

    Morning   Book   Writing  
  • My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a certain way, I was a 27 year old kid with a guitar

    Kids   Thinking   Guitar  
  • Big ideas are so hard to recognize, so fragile, so easy to kill. don't forget that, all of you who don't have them.

  • It's time for the party of big ideas, not the party of Big Brother!

    Brother   Party   Ideas  
    Mitt Romney's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Saint Paul, Minnesota, www.npr.org. September 3, 2008.
  • I had an old typewriter and a big idea.

    J.K. Rowling (2015). “Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination”, p.38, Hachette UK
  • I don't have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out.

    "WordPress, Matt Mullenweg". Interview With Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2006.
  • You're also looking at a global warming solution here in Europe: smaller vehicles, more energy efficient, many which use diesel fuel which is more efficient. And the price of gas here is $6 a gallon to discourage guzzling. A lot of big ideas and innovations coming out of Europe.

  • The third big idea is that we confess our sins to someone close to us--a friend or our spouse. I don't mean a public declaration of our shortcomings; I mean confession in the security of a trusted and living friend.

    Mean   Ideas   Sin  
    Ted Haggard (2002). “Simple Prayers for a Powerful Life”, Baker Publishing Group
  • I really like Kickstarter because you don't have to be a Medici to fund the arts and sciences or to get behind a big idea or a person that sparks your imagination. It's a type of microfunding directed toward creators.

    Art   Ideas   Imagination  
  • I worked on it [ Too Much Tuna] for a little bit downtown and it was a great experience. I couldn't believe how enthusiastic the audience was for it. It was just extraordinary. It felt like you were at a rock concert, which was just unusual for shows at Cherry Lane, which are usually intimate plays about big ideas, you know.

    Believe   Rocks   Play  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.

    Ideas   Littles   Bigs  
    Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster
  • There is no accountability today... no willingness to focus on big ideas.

    "Bloomberg will decide on White House bid by early March" by John King, edition.cnn.com. January 10, 2008.
  • People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

    Ideas   People   Laughing  
    Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “Anne of Green Gables”, p.17, Xist Publishing
  • It's the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there's nothing more powerful. That's just as true [for] education and human rights as it is for hotel or steels.

  • If you have a truly big idea, the wrong technique won't kill it. And if you don't have a big idea, the right technique won't help you

  • When we know why we're here as individuals and leaders, when our people know why they're here, a sense of purpose carries us forward, and we can do what needs to be done. People want to work on big ideas that matter to them and make a difference. When they do, they find gold.

  • Big ideas come from forward thinking people who challenge the norm, think outside the box, and invent the world they see inside rather than submitting to the limitations of current dilemmas

    Thinking   Ideas   People  
    T.D. Jakes (2013). “Let It Go: Forgive So You Can Be Forgiven”, p.18, Simon and Schuster
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