B Quotes
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“Big market price changes happen when lots of people are forced to reevaluate their prejudices, not necessarily when the world actually changes. — Colm O'Shea”
Source: Hedge Fund Market Wizards: How Winning Traders Win
“Big matches on the big stage are often decided at the back.”
“Big media are all about the angle, the spin. Look to the overarching theme that runs through each and every news story. Be hip to the meta-narrative peddled.”
“Big media companies have lots of money and content, but they have no way to tap into a good base of users.”
“Big messages come in small packages. All it may take to restore someone's trust in life may be returning a lost earring or a dropped glove.”
“Big mind is something to express, not something to figure out. Big mind is something you have, not something to seek for.”
Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
“Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.”
“Big mistakes are an outstanding opportunity to showcase your ability to recover and have grace under pressure.”
“Big moments like the Olympics tend to freeze things in place. It's just very hard to break through the news cycle with peoples's eyes on the Olympics. That's even more true with the concerns about Zika and terrorism.”
“Big money and big business, corporations and commerce, are again the undisputed overlords of politics and government. The White House, the Congress and, increasingly, the judiciary, reflect their interests. We appear to have a government run by remote control from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers and the American Petroleum Institute. To hell with everyone else.”
“Big money buys access in Washington, and access purchases influence. It is as simple as that. And they have basically given a green light, a further green light, after Citizens United, to the biggest money to have the bigger voice in our politics, and to sound out and drown out the voice of just ordinary citizens.”
“Big money encourages tanking. In my opinion, tanking is going on even with a lot of the top guys today - it's quite evident.”
“Big money is ruining the political system.”
“Big money isn't hard to come by. All it costs is a lifetime of single-minded devotion to acquiring it and making it grow into more money.”
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land
“Big Money politicians do not have a new form of entitlement. They do not own our votes.”
“Big money seeks out the company of its own, for purposes of reproduction.”
Source: A Separate War and Other Stories
“Big money tries to purchase its own agenda. Money does too much talking in Washington. Every senator, every representative, even the president awakens each morning with a number in his head that will drive the whole day. The number is the amount of money that must [be] raised that day for his reelection. If he fails, the next day's number will be even higher.”
“Big money, big Liberal Party politics and big media are trying to get rid of us, of course, by letting Packer take over Fairfax - a media-only company. But we're hanging in there and doing the best job we can for our readers while we can.”
“Big mountains are a completely different world: snow, ice, rocks, sky, and thin air. You cannot conquer them, only rise to their height for a short time; and for that they demand a great deal. The struggle is not with the enemy, or a competitor like in sports, but with yourself, with the feelings of weakness and inadequacy. That struggle appeals to me. It is why I became a mountaineer.”
Source: Above the Clouds: The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer
“Big movies are fun and it`s great to fly on private jets and make a lot of money and all the things that are connected with Hollywood, but they take a lot of your own life.”
“Big name often stands on small legs.”
“Big news from last night's Republican debate, you guys. It turns out George Bush was actually the smart Texas governor.”
“Big news on CNN, a search has uncovered illegal biochemical agents, toxins and other dangerous substances. Not in Iraq, in Rush Limbaugh's medicine cabinet.”
“Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote.”
“Big night of television tonight for Barack Obama. Earlier tonight, Barack Obama aired a half-hour infomercial to attract more voters. Yeah. Yeah, and apparently, if you watched the entire infomercial, Barack threw in a free set of Ginsu knives for you.”
“Big occasions and races which have been eagerly anticipated almost to the point of dread, are where great deeds can be accomplished.”
“Big oil, big steel, big agriculture avoid the open marketplace. Big corporations fix prices among themselves and thus drive out of business the small entrepreneur. Also, in their conglomerate form, the huge corporations have begun to challenge the very legitimacy of the state.”
Source: Matters of fact and of fiction: essays, 1973-1976
“Big Oil, Wall Street and big business as a whole - they stand in the way of the kinds of change needed. They are fiercely against the radical reforms Bernie Sanders is popularizing.”
“Big Opportunities are Rare
in Life, It Depends On You
Whether You Wait For One
Or You Create One.”
“Big or small, ruminating on the powers of crystals can boost courage and fight against misplaced fears.”
Source: The Mood Book: Crystals, Oils, and Rituals to Elevate Your Spirit
“Big or small, sin is sin!”
Source: Six Words Inspiration
“Big Papi placed among the top five in Most Valuable Player balloting during his first five seasons with the Red Sox. His best finish in that span was second place in 2005, just losing out to Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees. It was A-Rod, however, who suggested he’d gladly trade his hardware for the ring Ortiz won in 2004. A-Rod got the hardware for MVP again in 2007, but it was Ortiz who got another ring.”
Source: Boston Red Sox: An Interactive Guide to the World of Sports
“Big part of the challenge to innovation is that people too easily resign themselves to dying.”
“Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.”
Source: Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success
“Big people don't make people feel small.”
“Big people never scare me. I am a little man. I can easily hide.”
Source: The New Land
“Big pharma has a strangle hold on the politicians. They're stepping over the corpses of the children of America to cash their checks.”
“Big Pharma needs sick people to prosper. Patients, not healthy people, are their customers. If everybody was cured of a particular illness or disease, pharmaceutical companies would lose 100% of their profits on the products they sell for that ailment. What all this means is because modern medicine is so heavily intertwined with the financial profits culture, it’s a sickness industry more than it is a health industry.”
“Big picture dreams broken down into smaller, more manageable parts unveil the steps that lead you to where you wan to go.”
“big plans require big action”
Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
“Big players want to play in front of big audiences.”
“Big poops cure everything!”
“Big Poppa Pump is your hook up, and the next heavyweight championship of the world!”
“Big problems need big solutions. This season is the hottest Summer the humans live all over the world, and the question is, "What should we do to cool the earth down and retrieve our normal lives back?"
The only answer I have is to plant the earth; each centimeter on the planet should be planted again. Earth is our home, if we didn't take care of it and of all who lives on it, then who will?”
“Big productions, to me, are great - like, I love going to Vegas and seeing shows - but I think that sometimes it's distracting, especially when you are there to listen to the music.”
“Big questions are often answered in small actions only if we truly listen.”
“Big Rab has worked in Barlinnie’s Wendy House for over seven and a half years. The average time a screw works in the seg blocks is two years, this man has seen it and done it all. Most prisoners will agree, he isn’t a dog either but can be when he wants. He has had legendary roll abouts with some of Scotland’s hardest criminals but at the end of it he doesn’t hold any grudges.”
Source: Scottish Hard Bastards
“Big results require big ambitions. ~ Heraclitus”
Source: Dark Moon: Don't Be Out... When the Moon Comes UP
“Big revolution changes party, small everyday revolution changes paradigm.”
Source: Corazon Calamidad: Obedient to None, Oppressive to None
“Big rocks are envy of little sands because little sands can travel with the winds. Every littleness has its own big advantages!”