“I would say that God is much bigger than all of this. I've been through difficult times where it just seems like hope is nowhere to be found, but those are some of the greater moments where we run to Christ a little faster and hang on a little tighter. Through the hardest times in life, I hope people turn to him and realize he's still a sovereign God; he's in control.” PeopleLittlesStillsMomentsSeemsRunningTurnsFoundDifficultChristRealizingGreaterBiggerHardestFasterSovereignDifficult TimesHardest Times Author:Bart Millard
“I think ultimately what you really want is a few people within any label that are into the band enough to really work on it every day for a long time and to actually try a little bit. But obviously, the major labels have more money to spend, so if they feel like spending it, they have bigger resources there when you need them. It doesn't always necessarily translate into them doing a better job for a band, but I think especially if you're playing the game of commercial radio and making videos and stuff like that, that's sort of an expensive proposition.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantNeedsFeelsTryingLittlesLongEnoughJobsGamesStuffBitsBandMajorsLittle BitLong TimeResourcesBiggerRadioSpendingVideoLabelsExpensiveMore MoneyTranslatePropositionsBetter Jobs Author:Adam Schlesinger
“There is a cultural norm on the left of being afraid to declare victory, which is related to the binary of reform/revolution. Whereas reformists are winning small gains, revolutionaries don't want people to be satisfied with those small victories because they worry this will lead to acceptance of the bigger picture of capitalism domination, and so they find a way to turn every victory into a defeat. In the book, I call for a culture of declaring victory wherever we can.” PeopleWayWantBookTurnsCultureWinningLeftWorryAcceptanceRevolutionVictoryCapitalismGainsBiggerDefeatSatisfiedReformRevolutionaryRelatedNormDominationBeing AfraidDeclaringBinaryBigger PictureSmall Victories Author:Cynthia Kauffman
“I really appreciate when people use their fame and their voice for more than just self-promotion, starting a dialogue about a topic or an issue much bigger than themselves.” PeopleSelfUseVoiceIssuesFameAppreciateBiggerStartingDialogueTopicsPromotionSelf Promotion Author:Questlove
“A basketball diameter is 10 inches and a rim is 18 inches so I made a 14-inch rim I put in to practice on. Few people could do that because it was so frustrating that it drove everyone but me nuts. That led to me shooting very high, which basic physics tells you is the best angle - the hole is bigger from above than from the side.” PeopleMadeSidesPracticeBasketballBiggerPhysicsHolesShootingNutsInchesAngleFrustratingRims Author:Dolph Schayes
“People presume just because you're a bigger bloke that you wouldn't be physically fit or up for the fight, but that couldn't be further from the truth.” PeopleFightingFitBiggerBlokesPhysically Fit Author:Nick Frost
“When I was a young fellow, I used to learn the dialogue backwards. The point is that in a conversation between two people, you can't have already made the decisions about what you're gonna do. You gotta be very light on your feet. That leads you into areas where conversations can have a much bigger, grander meaning.” PeopleMadeTwoLightYoungUsedDecisionFeetConversationAreasBiggerFellowsDialogueBackwards Author:Russell Crowe
“I had a lot of ups and downs. I always said that if I were in a position to give back, I would and I have. As my name became bigger, I started giving. You want to make that connection with people who are less fortunate. It keeps you in touch with reality. When you become a successful individual, and have a thousand tasks going on, you forget that there are people in need. It keeps me grounded.” PeopleIfsWantNeedsGivingSaidRealityNamesIndividualForgetSuccessfulPositionThousandTasksConnectionsBiggerFortunateGroundedGiving BackUps & DownsLess FortunateSuccessful Individuals Author:Shawne Merriman
“I'm particularly committed to the political people who needed defense. I understand that they're fighting a bigger war than just, "Let me go get some money for cocaine tonight."” PeopleWarPoliticalFightingNeededLet MeBiggerCommittedDefenseTonightCocaineLet Me Go Author:Lynne Stewart
“Men want to destroy the women: you've become bigger than me, people love you more, you have a public platform, that's my space you're taking up. I can't just divorce you, I have to destroy you.” PeopleMenWantI CanSpaceLove YouBiggerDivorcePlatformsLove You MoreMy Space Author:Rachel Holmes
“I know a lot of people that don't pray or anything, and that's fine - but I need to. I don't even want to call it prayer, I just want to call it talking to something bigger than me.” PeopleKnowsWantNeedsPrayerTalkingFinePrayingBigger Author:Valerie June
“We like to say the Internet is the ultimate library. But libraries are libraries because people come together and fund them through taxes. Libraries actually exist, all over the country, so why is it such a reach to imagine and to someday build a public institution that has a digital aspect to it? Of course the problem is that libraries and other public services are being defunded and are under attack, so there's a bigger progressive struggle this plays into.” PeopleCountryPlayProblemTogetherCoursesStruggleImagineInternetTaxesAspectUltimateBiggerInstitutionsLibrarySomedayDigitalFundProgressivePublic Service Author:Astra Taylor
“A conversation with you is a different thing than projecting to a couple hundred people. It's bigger and more animated and it's on a bigger scope, but still in the heart, it's honestly me.” PeopleHeartStillsDifferentCoupleConversationHundredBiggerHonestlyDifferent ThingsScopeAnimated Author:Craig Finn
“We are always centered in the middle of chaos. It never goes away. It's important to find your inner peace. For me, it's literally looking at the bigger picture. When I think about the size of the universe, I feel like any problems I'm surrounded by are so small. I just do my best to react to chaos with love, and hopefully, other people will catch on and do things out of love too.” PeopleThinkingFeelsImportantProblemUniverseMiddleBiggerChaosSizeInner PeaceHopefullyHope And LoveBigger Picture Author:Melanie Iglesias
“Here's the bigger problem with all this, we're not interrogating anybody right now. Guantanamo's being emptied by this president. We should be putting people into Guantanamo, not emptying it out, and we shouldn't be releasing these killers who are rejoining the battlefield against the United States.” PeopleShouldStatesProblemPresidentUnitedUnited StatesRight NowBiggerKillersBattlefieldsGuantanamoBigger ProblemsRejoining Author:Marco Rubio
“I think we've made it a golden idol. I think we in the church have treated it differently than we've treated anything else. We've made it bigger; the resolution for this needs to be bigger than for other people. I think we have to do a better job than we've done. So I do think there is, people rush to judgment and rush to clarify their point on this issue in ways that they don't' rush to judgment and to clarity on other issues.” PeopleThinkingWayNeedsMadeDoneJobsChurchIssuesJudgmentBiggerTreatedGoldenClarityMade ItResolutionIdolsBetter Jobs Author:Alan Chambers
“To create the protection for the corporations, government is actually growing bigger than ever before, in every part of the world. Yet itÂ’s growing extremely thin as a protector of people.” PeopleWorldGovernmentGrowingBiggerProtectionCorporationsProtector Author:Vandana Shiva
“I always get because people remember me as a really small, skinny kid. And then when they meet me, I'm just kind of towering over them. I'm 6'2. I'm not a giant, but compared to what a lot of people remember me as, it's a little bigger.” PeopleKindLittlesKidsRememberBiggerGiantsSkinnyRemember Me Author:Sterling Beaumon
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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
“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
“That's what I think people sense when they get hooked by surfing - hooked by their relationship with the ocean. All of a sudden, they're part of something that's bigger than them.” PeopleThinkingSportsOceanBiggerInspirational SportsSurfingHooked Author:Nick Carroll
“I think a bigger difference with social media is going to be things like the impact Instagram will have for historians. For the longest time, we had no images of the past. And then when we had the advent of the camera, we had a record of the things people chose to photograph, which, for a while, were portraits of your family, a new building we built, or a really big horse. Well now we have images of everything. That will be the biggest difference I think - that we will have a visual record of this reality in a way that will be completely covered.” PeopleThinkingWayWellsBigsRealityPastSocialDifferencesRecordsMediaBuildingBuiltBiggerHorseCamerasImpactPhotographSocial MediaOur FamilyVisualsCoveredHistorianPortraitsInstagramAdvent Author:Chuck Klosterman
“Britain deserves better than people who say they've got a quick fix but won't tell you what it actually means for Britain, we need a much bigger conversation than this.” PeopleNeedsMeanConversationDeserveBiggerBritainQuick FixesDeserve Better Author:Ruth Davidson
“I was tied down in that chair for 10 minutes and experienced what it was like to be completely powerless while someone else has complete dominance. It's sadistic, even though I find Richard to be a really lovely human being. That's what the whole film "Tickled" is about. It's not a film about tickling, but I think tickling offers a really good visual metaphor for the much bigger ideas that we were trying to get at about power and control - by people who have a lot of money - over people without money and who have no power in the relationship.” PeopleThinkingTryingHumansIdeasWholeFilmHuman BeingsMinutesOffersBiggerMetaphorLovelyVisualsChairsTiedLots Of MoneyPowerlessDominanceSadisticPower And ControlTickling Author:David Farrier
“It so cliché to say some guys and girls need to step up, but there can be bigger stars and bigger names when people get their chance.” PeopleNeedsGuyGirlNamesStarsChanceStepsBiggerStep Up Author:Chris Jericho
“If you come face to face with some really challenging situations and tragic circumstances - you are going in there with a purpose. You are not going in there as a tourist. You're not going there just to merely observe. You have a purpose, and your purpose is to tell that story, to share that story for the bigger benefit of millions of other people. Your purpose is to create that bridge so you can give that story the dignity and the focus that it deserves, and you can become a part of the amplification that needs to be there.” PeopleIfsNeedsGivingStoriesFacesPurposeChallengesSituationMillionsFocusShareCircumstancesBenefitsDeserveDignityBiggerBridgesTragicFace To FaceTouristsAmplificationChallenging Situations Author:Annie Lennox
“If we don't rebuild that connection with people we will really find even bigger gaps, because our gap on inequality is not just economic.” PeopleIfsEconomicConnectionsBiggerInequalityGaps Author:Hillary Clinton
“My hope and my prayer for people would be to find and gather themselves such that their self-understanding, their willingness to act in the face of fear, [imbibes and imbues them] with enough faith [that] is bigger than their fear.” PeopleSelfEnoughWould BeFacesUnderstandingPrayerBiggerWillingnessSelf Understanding Author:Rod Stryker
“For some people it may be kind of off-putting. But the idea that fear accompanies us at every step: the point is that our courage has to be bigger than our fear.” PeopleKindMayIdeasStepsBiggerBe KindEvery StepAccompanyAccompany Us Author:Rod Stryker
“There are so many messages and lessons that I have been taught that I would want to share with people. Perhaps one that is very present in my mind now is the concept that we are all living on this one tiny planet that we call Earth. It is very small and is not getting any bigger, but the amount of people living on this planet continues to grow at a rapid rate.” PeopleWantMindHas BeensEarthGrowsShareTaughtPlanetsAmountLessonsMessagesConceptsBiggerRateTinyRapidsLiving On Author:Yanni
“You see, one strand...of anarchism believed that you needed to use essentially homeopathic doses of terror by assassinating people, et cetera, the so-called 'propaganda of the deed', and that this propaganda of the deed would rouse people up, give them confidence to rise up. Another section believed 'No, it was not by seeing something happen that people get confidence, but it's by acting', in other words, the movements must go among the people and produce small struggles, bigger struggles, to give people greater and greater confidence.” PeopleGivingUseHappensActingStruggleGreaterSeeingMovementProduceNeededBiggerTerrorDeedsThings HappenPropagandaSectionsAnarchismDoseStrands Author:Vijay Prashad
“You've got to try to figure out which is the bigger benefit and which is the bigger loser. It nearly killed him [Eric Clapton ]; he was in a very, very bad way for a long time, but he came through it. Most people don't come through it because they don't have the money to buy the people to look after them.” PeopleWayTryingLooksLongFiguresBenefitsLong TimeBiggerLoserEric Author:Lemmy Kilmister
“When you see big people, they expect them to wobble or something. The whole feeling of bigger people in this country is so negative. This works for me.” PeopleCountryWholeFeelingsBigsNegativeBigger Author:James Monroe Iglehart
“I was working with D'Mile - he's amazing! And I don't know, it was like that guitar riff was so crazy to me, and so I think I was frustrated about something that happened earlier and I feel like I'm just a good guy, I don't cut people off, I don't really call people out when they do stuff that they should be called out on, and I'm just always the one being the bigger person. So, that day "Gangster" just came out. That's just how I feel in that day to day life.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFeelsShouldPersonsGuyStuffCuttingHappenedCrazyBiggerGuitarMilesFrustratedDay To DayGood GuyGangstersDay LifeDay To Day LifeBigger Person Author:PJ Harvey
“I think that sometimes almost the bigger tragedy in a weird way is all of the future imagined creative projects that could have happened that didn't. I feel the same way about lots of brilliant people who die young, kind of senselessly especially.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsKindSometimesYoungDiesCreativeHappenedProjectsBiggerTragedyBrilliantDie Young Author:Chris Cornell
“Someone asked me recently, "Do you get sick of people asking you about your hair?" And the reason I don't is because I actually feel like you could chronicle my journey of self-acceptance through my journey with my hair. It's a badge of something bigger.” PeopleFeelsSelfReasonJourneyAcceptanceLike YouHairSickBiggerAskingSelf AcceptanceBadgesChroniclesMy Journey Author:Tracee Ellis Ross
“Being a good writer may result in your being nicer to more people, having a bigger positive impact.” PeopleMayResultsBiggerImpactBeing NiceGood WritersPositive Impact Author:Marty Nemko
“Most of the time, I'm fighting guys who are 22 years old, former college wrestlers, athletes, kids who are in much better shape than me. Often people who are much bigger and wider than me. It can be dispiriting at first.” PeopleYearsFirstsKidsGuyFightingCollegeShapesBiggerAthleteFormerWrestler Author:Anthony Bourdain