“The editor needs to put his own life on hold for the better of the magazine, the crew, and the readers. And to have a bigger vision of the magazine's style and an understanding that every [issue] should be well-balanced and hopefully surprising. To have a pink wall with a door of perception where he can bang his head on.” NeedsShouldWellsUnderstandingVisionIssuesDoorsStyleWallReaderPerceptionBiggerMagazinesHopefullyEditorsSurprisingBalancedCrewBangsDoors Of Perception Author:Toni Jerrman
“It's something we do every week. Every week kind of has bigger name headliners. It's all just our taste. There's a lot of people like Ian Edwards or Dan Mintz who a lot of people haven't heard of yet, but we know are really great. When we started the show five years ago it wasn't because Patton Oswalt needs another place to play. It was because we had a lot of new friends like BJ Novak or Morgan Murphy, who didn't have any club to play.” PeopleKnowsNeedsYearsKindPlayShowsNamesFiveHeardWeekHavensTasteYears AgoBiggerClubsFive YearsReally GreatNew FriendsMurphy Author:B. J. Porter
“You want to be a part of something that is going to change history or make history or be bigger than yourself.” WantBigger Author:Sarah Gadon
“Bigger brands like Shinola are capitalizing on what all of us small companies did. Shinola is just totally fake. It's a corporate entity that's taking advantage of what everybody else has done. They say it's all about made in U.S., but one Wal-Mart hires more employees than their whole company.” MadeDoneWholeCompanyAdvantageBiggerBrandsCorporateFakeEmployeeEntityTaking Advantage Author:Mark McNairy
“I grew up with heroes, people who made me aspire to raise my game, to dream bigger and I like to keep it that simple.” PeopleMadeDreamGamesSimpleGrewHeroGrew UpBiggerRaisesAspire Author:Mike Vallely
“Struggling with the world and having the problem of you vs. the world is a really big problem. You're going to lose because the world is so much bigger than you, and longer lasting.” WorldProblemBigsLosesStruggleBiggerLastingBig Problems Author:Robert Thurman
“I think the whole nostalgia for the forty year gap for [Sylvester] Stallone was bigger than the movie [Creed], but it's good because the movie still gets recognized with Stallone's involvement. I'm sure the director [Ryan Coogler] is still proud of his film, but it's very hard to nominate a director.” ThinkingYearsStillsHardWholeFilmProudDirectorsBiggerNostalgiaFortyGapsCreedsInvolvement Author:Bun B
“The psychology for the person who's actually doing it is completely different. I think I probably needed to put that [hired-hand] psychology in my own head to be able to do the job. Otherwise it would just be too scary. People outside make it much bigger than me. I'm not saying in my head, "Oh, my god, what an amazing idea!" It scares me if I would do that.” PeopleIfsThinkingPersonsIdeasDifferentHandsAbleJobsMy OwnPsychologyNeededBiggerScaryScareScary People Author:Raf Simons
“When one child says to another, "I can do this, I bet you can't"; "My dad has a bigger car than yours"; or, "My dad is stronger than yours." Children identify with this or that, trying to build up a sense of self - a mentally defined sense of self.” TryingChildrenI CanSelfCan DoCarDadBiggerStrongerMy DadDefinedSense Of SelfI Can Do This Author:Eckhart Tolle
“There was great political uncertainty in South Asia at the time of the Buddha. The older small tribal societies were cracking up and gave way to bigger states. There was much more trade and travel going on than before. To people in the cities the experience of living in a small place where you knew everyone and governed your affairs by consensual democracy had been lost.” PeopleWayStatesPoliticalLostCitiesDemocracyBiggerTradeSouthAffairUncertaintyAsiaGreat PoliticalSouth AsiaSmall PlacesCracking Up Author:Pankaj Mishra
“I have always felt that books help me feel less alone in the world. They make our lives bigger - they help us to feel feelings we wouldn't otherwise feel and to understand feelings that we don't have a framework for.” WorldFeelsBookHelpingFeelingsFeltOur LivesBiggerHelp MeFramework Author:Lisa Lucas
“Learning from books is so empowering - whether it be from history, a novel or a poem. When you come away from reading having learned something, you yourself are bigger.” BookReadingNovelBiggerEmpowering Author:Lisa Lucas
“I'm not really scared of a lot of things. I'm scared of possums. And I'm scared of raccoons sometimes, it depends on how big it is - I'm scared of the smaller raccoons because the bigger ones are slower.” SometimesBigsDependsBiggerScaredRaccoonsPossums Author:Vince Staples
“I'm living for myself, everything I do is to achieve my goals, so I'd love to stop caring so much about what I want by then and maybe focus on a bigger picture.” WantGoalFocusAchieveBiggerCaringBigger PictureStop Caring Author:Keiynan Lonsdale
“We have this sense that there's something bigger than us, above and beyond. If you take away the idea of God, you need to replace it with a shared moral code. Otherwise, everybody becomes very self-centred and materialistic.” IfsNeedsIdeasSelfMoralBiggerCodeMaterialisticMoral CodeAbove And Beyond Author:Jonathan Trigell
“I think that [Chris] Christie`s endorsement is, you know, it`s a sign that - you know, he is who we thought he was in so many different respects. He`s someone who ambition is the only thing that I think is bigger than his appetite.I think in this case, it`s a situation where he saw the one guy who he thinks he can maybe get a cabinet post with if he wins in Donald Trump. I think, you know, he kind of went out the door doing a number of favors in beating up Marco Rubio the way he did.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayKindDifferentGuyWinningNumbersSituationCasesSawsDoorsTrumpAmbitionBiggerFavorsPostsAppetiteCabinetsMarcosEndorsementsChristie Author:Ben Domenech
“But in general, as countries get wealthier, there's going to be more savings, which means you're going to have intermediation. So part of it is just the huge growth in wealth, and part of it was globalization - these companies, these clients getting much bigger and much more global.” MeanCountryGrowthWealthCompanyHugeBiggerSavingClientsGlobalizationSavings Author:Jamie Dimon
“If the numbers are right, ICBC [Industrial & Commercial Bank of China], which already earns nearly twice as much as JPMorgan. They'll probably be going a lot faster over time, and one day they can be a lot bigger than us.” IfsNumbersOne DayBiggerChinaFasterCommercial Banks Author:Jamie Dimon
“The idea was not to make a huge business, because the bigger you get, the more restraints I thought I might get. Number one was to do what I set out to do: make new and interesting things within the size of the business that is possible to do without restraints. The second goal was to do the business in order to achieve the first goal. That's what many people don't understand.” PeopleFirstsIdeasMightOrderGoalInterestingNumbersAchieveHugeBiggerSizeRestraintInteresting Things Author:Rei Kawakubo
“Or, if I take that same auditorium and I make it much bigger and put more space between seats, it'll be quieter because it's much harder when you're not in physical contact with people to spread a virus from person-to-person, right? There are all sorts of patterns that we see in epidemiology that help us understand why something spreads.” PeopleIfsPersonsHelpingSpaceBiggerHarderPatternsSpreadContactSeatsVirusesSpace BetweenAuditoriumsEpidemiology Author:Seth Godin
“You become a writer on a television show, and you see yourself doing bigger and better things, you don't wait till they tell you, "Here's the way to do bigger and better things," you start writing. You start writing that material that you might be doing off to the side. Nobody's going to be paying you for that, but it could turn into something big.” WayWritingShowsBigsMightTurnsWaitingSidesTelevisionMaterialsBiggerTelevision ShowsBigger And BetterBigger And Better Things Author:Ice Cube
“My thing is: stay creative. And just because somebody starts to pay you, that don't mean all your creativity goes to that, and you don't save none for yourself to be able to do other, bigger and better things and still follow your dreams even if you start off inside of a box.” IfsMeanStillsDreamAblePayCreativityCreativeBiggerBoxesYour DreamsFollow Your DreamsBigger And BetterBigger And Better Things Author:Ice Cube
“You don't win everything. And you ultimately have to take what you get. I think on the case of [Donald] Trump, there's a much bigger upside than down side.” ThinkingWinningSidesCasesTrumpBigger Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Your hair isn't quite right and maybe you're a size bigger than you should be and on and on and on. I think there comes a moment when you've matured to the point where you suddenly think, nonsense. I am fine just the way I am.” ThinkingWayShouldMomentsHairFineBiggerSizeNonsenseMatured Author:Anna Quindlen
“Commercial roadways in communities that lack zoning laws, for example, are often an aesthetic nightmare not because of insufficient competition, and not because merchants are stupid or lack taste. Rather, the problem is that any individual merchant's sign won't be noticed unless it's bigger and more garish than those of rival merchants.” ProblemLawIndividualCommunityStupidExampleTasteBiggerCompetitionNightmareAestheticRivalsMerchantsInsufficient Author:Bob Frank
“There's no indication that middle-income families feel resentful about the bigger mansions and yachts. But the near-rich, whose social circles intersect those of the rich, are subtly influenced by them.” FeelsSocialRichMiddleBiggerCirclesIncomeIndicationMansionsYachtResentful Author:Bob Frank
“Money, financial matters were to help people, to help them survive, not to have a bigger house or a bigger car and that sort of thing, because I hear that from so many kids, they often don't know why their father won't spend more time with them.” PeopleKnowsMatterHelpingKidsFatherHouseCarBiggerFinancialMore Time Author:Bernie Siegel
“Anything that is within you is a gift. To be able to take possession of that and say, "Whatever it is, I am bigger than it," is to learn to cherish even the hard and painful things.” HardAbleBiggerPainfulPossessionCherishWithin YouPainful Things Author:John Darnielle
“Family and friends always need to be bigger than your music career, and in that sense, your music will be bigger because you respect your family and your friends more.” NeedsCareersBiggerOur FamilyFamily And FriendsMusic Career Author:Jens Lekman
“Playing to bigger audiences at festivals got me in the mindset of writing music that I would sing to a crowd.” WritingAudienceBiggerCrowdsMindsetFestivalsWriting Music Author:Caroline Polachek
“For the records I've work on over the last 10 years, I get sent the really compressed version and the non-compressed version, and oftentimes you end up going with the more compressed one because it's what people's ears are attuned to. I think the bigger problem is saturation and people being desensitized.” PeopleThinkingYearsEndsProblemLastsRecordsEarsBiggerVersionsSaturationBigger Problems Author:Beck
“I loved working with Malcolm [McDowell]. He's been such an important person in my life. I mean, not just as someone I was married to, which is huge, and the father of my children, which is even bigger, but also as a friend and an inspiration and somebody who probably helped to fuel something that all my reading as a child had already started, which was a love of England and the world of the theater over there, which I became involved with through him and probably because of him.” WorldMeanChildrenPersonsImportantInspirationReadingFatherHugeInvolvedMarriedBiggerEnglandTheaterMy ChildrenFuelImportant Person Author:Mary Steenburgen
“The drive to scale in almost every endeavor. The British went very large scale in ship building and a few other industries. Their steel plants were bigger and much more advanced than ours after the Civil War, but we had blown past them by the mid-80s.” WarPastBuildingIndustryBiggerPlantBritishScalesShipsCivil WarEndeavorSteel80sLarge Scale Author:Charles R. Morris
“It happens a little bit more in the West, where there's more fluid - where everybody's originally from somewhere else. So they have a little bit more permission to do it. It happens the least, at the individual level at least, in the South, because the South has very strong, you know, set up black churches and white churches and a long history of that, and so it's a bigger social cost.” KnowsLittlesLongHappensIndividualStrongSocialBitsBlackChurchWhiteLevelsCostLittle BitBiggerWestSouthVery StrongPermissionSomewhere ElseFluidBlack Church Author:Michael Emerson
“Then of course there are bigger things that matter, like who do I see up there in the congregation? Do I see myself up there? Well, I don't.” WellsMatterCoursesBiggerCongregationThings That Matter Author:Michael Emerson
“Music has the potential and the capability to create something much bigger... it has the capability to be completely free, to do anything. And I think you limit that idea when you put yourself in front of it, in a way.” ThinkingWayIdeasFrontsLimitsBiggerCapability Author:Karin Dreijer Andersson
“The more years you put behind you, hopefully making music that surpasses what you did before, you're playing bigger places and it kind of weirdly becomes a business.” YearsKindBehindsBiggerHopefullyBehind You Author:Mark Lanegan
“Photography and movies are a much bigger influence on me than music is itself.” InfluencePhotographyMusic IsBigger Author:Sune Rose Wagner
“Sometimes bigger cities, just because there's so much going on, people are a little more jaded.” PeopleLittlesSometimesCitiesBiggerJaded Author:Hutch Harris
“I think a lot of things can be misconstrued in a lot of ways. And I think if people open their minds more, and they try to look deeper into something than just something that is a very big, hot, fiery button to hide behind...I think if people looked into something bigger that I was trying to speak upon, they wouldn't be so easy to fire back silly, miscellaneous things.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayTryingMindLooksBigsSpeakEasyBehindsFireBiggerHotDeeperSillyButtonsMiscellaneousFieryMisconstrued Author:Chloe Grace Moretz
“There's something bigger than improvised music versus pop music versus something else. What actually succeeds in being communicated are human feelings, things that people can latch onto and say, "Yeah, I feel like that sometimes." It can be inspiring or it can be something that keeps you sane when you're not feeling well.” PeopleFeelsHumansWellsSometimesFeelingsSucceedBiggerYeahPopsSaneVersusPop MusicLatchesNot Feeling Well Author:John Dieterich
“I think the more successful you are, the bigger your hair gets.” ThinkingSuccessfulHairBigger Author:Justin Hawkins
“As developing countries became bigger traders, it was clear that the old way of doing business wouldn't fly. To get them back to the bargaining table, the wealthy countries had to offer something more: a new round of talks that would use trade as a tool to help developing countries grow.” WayCountryHelpingUseGrowsClearOffersToolsBiggerTablesTradeRoundsDevelopingWealthyTradersBargainingOld WaysDeveloping Countries Author:Daniel Altman
“I think there's a danger that some people look at the success of my first movie as a fluke. So I want to make sure that my second film is an even bigger success. Then if I direct my third movie and it's terrible, it'll be okay.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantFirstsLooksFilmDangerTerribleDirectOkayThirdsBiggerFlukes Author:Paul Reubens
“The Russians did much bigger space launch vehicles for launching satellites and for getting men in orbit. They did that much sooner than America because America was very good at something else.” MenAmericaSpaceBiggerVery GoodVehicleOrbitSatellitesLaunching Author:Burt Rutan
“Just in higher education alone, more people go to college now, by enormous amounts, than went to college in the '50's and '60's. So that represents a whole new literate public that's a consumer of literature, of news, of print, of, you know, opinion. And that's a bigger audience and much more diverse audience than it used to be.” PeopleKnowsWholeUsedLiteratureOpinionAudienceCollegeAmountHigherNewsBiggerEnormousUsed To BeConsumersPrintDiverseHigher Education Author:Louis Menand
“I bet most of the crowd does not know that there are six moons in the solar system bigger than Pluto.” KnowsDoeMoonSixBiggerCrowdsSolar SystemPluto Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Different boards do different things to the sound that's coming through them. An old Neve desk does embellish it in a way that makes it sound sort of bigger or warmer. It doesn't change the performance but it does enhance the way that it sounds.” WayDoeDifferentSoundPerformancesBiggerBoardsDifferent ThingsDesks Author:Dave Grohl
“And from, you know, small ideas, bigger ideas emerge. So we're starting with suborbital space flights and we'll then go into orbital space flights and, you know, maybe one day we'll send people on a one-way voyage into the depths of space as per the science fiction trips.” PeopleKnowsWayIdeasSpaceFictionOne DayBiggerScience FictionDepthStartingFlightOne WayVoyagesMaybe One DaySpace FlightSmall Ideas Author:Richard Branson
“And then after the success at Melbourne Comedy Festival, then we regrouped back in LA and we went back into workshopping and decided to develop a proper show and that's when we started working on "Stuffed and Unstrung," which is a much bigger and sharper version of "Puppet Up."” ShowsComedyDecidedBiggerVersionsFestivalsPuppetsMelbourne Author:Brian Henson