Best bigs & ideas Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There's a phrase in Shakespeare: he refers to it as the 'hidden imposthume', and this idea of a hidden swelling is seminal to cancer. But even in more contemporary writing it's called 'the big C'.”

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Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee

“The world is too big and too intricate to conform to our ideas of what it should be like... Just because we invent myths and theories to explain away the chaos we're still going to live in a world that's older and more complicated than we'll ever understand.”

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Author:Moby

“The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come from and I've often wondered if writing is just a socially acceptable form of madness.”

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Author:Taiye Selasi

“My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life.”

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Author:Scarlett Thomas

“Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal.”

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Author:Olivia Thirlby

“I have always been a big advocate of tap water-not because I think it harmless but because the idea of purchasing water extracted from some remote watershed and then hauled halfway round the world bothers me. Drinking bottled water relieves people of their concern about ecological threats to the river they live by or to the basins of groundwater they live over. It's the same kind of thinking that leads some to the complacent conclusion that if things on earth get bad enough, well, we'll just blast off to a space station somewhere else.”

“Creativity is thinking big.”

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Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“But I'm a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas.”

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Author:Jack Markell

“Let us tackle the big issues with bold ideas that transform Iowa to accomplish our shared mission to grow Iowa, and realize our shared vision of Iowa as the best place to live, work and raise a family.”

Ideas Bigs Grows Realizing Vision Issues Raises Accomplish Missions Iowa Places To Live Best Place Shared Vision

Author:Tom Vilsack

“I've never been a big fan of subtle art. I like art that gets deep into my head and starts my brain spinning with new ideas and inspiration and my whole body is full of energy.”

Art Ideas Whole Body Bigs Inspiration Energy Brain Fans Subtle New Ideas Spinning Ideas And Inspiration

Author:Jello Biafra

“My novels tend to come about from a fusion of two big ideas, creating a critical mass that then fissions, throwing off hundreds of other particles, riffs, tropes and characters.”

Two Ideas Character Bigs Novel Creating Mass Critical Throwing Particles Fusion Big Ideas Tropes Critical Mass Fission

Author:Will Self

“My success has been something I've worked a long time at and it's been a gradual process. I compare it to the idea of someone losing a lot of weight over a period of a few years. You don't really notice the weight loss overall but if you compare photos from then and now there's a big difference.”

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Author:Ray William Johnson

“I do think that I'm a big believer in having an idea or having ideas and just tucking them away in the back of your brain. Even if you aren't consciously thinking of them, I think they simmer. You're working on them, even if you don't know you're working on them, and I think having something in your head for a while is a valuable thing.”

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Author:Rian Johnson

“The big success stories - Facebook, Zynga and Twitter - are leading to investing in ideas on a napkin, because no one wants to miss out on the next big thing.”

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Author:Eric Lefkofsky

“These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas, such as: "I see where I can make an annual cut of $3.47 in my meat budget." But they have no slow, big ideas.”

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Book:If You Want to Write

Source: If You Want to Write

“What is the most powerful force in the world? And I think you would agree that is a big idea if it is in the hands of an entrepreneur who is actually going to make the idea not only happen, but spread all across society. And we understand that in business but we have need for entrepreneurship just as much in education, human rights, health, and the environment as we do in hotels and steel.”

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Author:Bill Drayton

“Suffice it to say, there are some very big ideas in Prometheus and, therefore, it covers a very vast expanse of time.”

Ideas Bigs Big Ideas Expanse Prometheus

Author:Damon Lindelof

“It's the old idea that the process of evolution is some push in the direction of greater complexity--in particular greater intellectual complexity. In one twig of the tree of life, namely ours, having a big brain happened to have advantages. But that's just what worked for a particular species of primate 5 to 7 million years ago.”

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Author:Steven Pinker

“Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.”

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Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into their products.”

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Author:Steve Jobs

“Every big computing disaster has come from taking too many ideas and putting them in one place.”

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Author:Gordon Bell

“You are greater than anything that can happen to you. In a big and terrifying crisis, people find within themselves a power and a strength and also a wisdom they had no idea they possessed.”

People Ideas Bigs Happens Motivational Greater Crisis No Idea Possessed

Book:Positive Imaging: The Powerful Way to Change Your Life

Source: Positive Imaging: The Powerful Way to Change Your Life

“I like things to be orderly. For seven years I ate at Bob's Big Boy. I would go at 2:30, after the lunch rush. I ate a chocolate shake and four, five, six, seven cups of coffee-with lots of sugar. And there's lots of sugar in that chocolate shake. It's a thick shake. In a silver goblet. I would get a rush from all this sugar, and I would get so many ideas! I would write them on these napkins. It was like I had a desk with paper. All I had to do was remember to bring my pen, but a waitress would give me one if I remembered to return it at the end of my stay. I got a lot of ideas at Bob's.”

“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.”

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Author:Lisa Gansky

“Letting Go: A Little Bit at a Time is filled with big ideas that just might change your life. Wise, witty, and important.”

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Author:Daniel Amen

“I hate the concept of the clog! It's fake, it's ugly, and it's not even comfortable! And I hate the whole concept of comfort! It's like when people say, 'Well, we're not really in love, but we're in a comfortable relationship.' You're abandoning a lot of ideas when you are too into comfort. 'Comfy'-that's one of the worst words! I just picture a woman feeling bad, with a big bottle of alcohol, really puffy. It's really depressing, but she likes her life because she has comfortable clogs.”

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Author:Christian Louboutin

“I would like to have insights into things like government, all those big ideas that you brought up that I simply don't have ideas about. I would like to be able to since so many people discuss them, but I don't want to work at them. I don't think my ambition is that strong in that direction.”

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Author:Jasper Johns

“Thoughts come and go. It's impossible to stop your thoughts, but the idea is that the thoughts are kind of like waves on the ocean. That's Jon Kabat-Zinn's big analogy and that this is actually kind of diving under the waves. And you know it's kind of interesting.”

Knows Kind Ideas Bigs Interesting Impossible Ocean Wave Comes And Goes Analogies Diving

Author:Anderson Cooper

“The part of Stripe that I've always found most interesting is the idea of facilitating new commerce that wouldn't otherwise happen. Payouts is turning out to be a big part of that. These new networks are efficient, intelligent replacements for offline behemoths.”

Ideas Bigs Happens Found Interesting Intelligent Efficient Commerce Most Interesting Replacements Stripes Offline Behemoth

Author:Patrick Collison

“As far as the dreams go, really I would only point to there are times in my life where I experienced lucid dreaming, which is a big feature of Inception - the idea of realizing you're in a dream and therefore trying to change or manipulate it in some way. That's a very striking experience for people who have it.”

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Author:Christopher Nolan

“Big Idea - Your days are your life in miniature. As you live your hours, so you create your years. As you live your days, so you craft your life. What you do today is actually creating your future. The words you speak, the thoughts you think, the food you eat and the actions you take are defining your destiny - shaping who you are becoming and what your life will stand for. Small choices lead to giant consequences over time. There's no such thing as an unimportant day.”

Source: The Robin Sharma Pack

“There are parents out there screaming as if their kid is going to be in the big leagues someday. C'mon. I chew them out if I see that. Maybe they've got their own idea how to do things, but it's wrong. Just be with the kids. Let 'em make errors. Give them all a chance. It's not about winning. It's spirit, togetherness.”

Ifs Giving Ideas Bigs Kids Spirit Winning Parent Chance Errors League Ems Someday Togetherness

Author:Tommy Lasorda

“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.”

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Book:My Inventions: And Other Writings

Source: My Inventions: And Other Writings

“The main efforts of investigators have been in papering over contradictions in the big bang theory, to build up an idea which has become ever more complex and cumbersome.”

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Author:Fred Hoyle

“My goal--and this is kind of my own little secret--but when I get married, just to head out and finish football and, and, and be a missionary around the world. Places where Steve Young--not that it's big really that many places--but places where they have no idea about football.”

World Kind Littles Ideas Bigs Young Goal My Own Secret Football Married Around The World No Idea Missionary Steve Young

Author:Steve Young

“For students to understand what the future of journalism is going to be, they're going to have to invent it. It's a big idea. We don't know what journalism is going to look like in the next three years, let alone the next 10 years.”

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Author:Steve Blank

“The "patron saint" of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.”

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Author:Akio Morita

“Oh yeah In France a skinny man Died of a big disease with a little name By chance his girlfriend came across a needle And soon she did the same At home there are seventeen-year-old boys And their idea of fun Is being in a gang called The Disciples High on crack, totin' a machine gun.”

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Author:Prince

“Don't get any big ideas They're not gonna happen.”

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Author:Thom Yorke

“Have you ever had a big idea or dream - something you wanted so bad ... but you were too scared to make it happen, or maybe you didn't really believe it could? Think of how often you've had someone you looked up to or viewed as successful - shoot one of your suggestions full of holes. Ideas and babies have a lot in common - they require a lot of nourishment to survive. A new idea, regardless of its size, may not be able to withstand a beating when you first give it birth.”

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Author:Bob Proctor

“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.”

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Book:Simple Prayers for a Powerful Life

Source: Simple Prayers for a Powerful Life

“No one escapes that moment of innocence when the world attacks him and installs within him the spirit of opposites... As long as everything within you is saying yes and no, dark and light, with big earth-shaking ideas, you come nowhere near art, I think. Light and dark don't exist for us as artists. Light is something given to you and you're allowing it to pass through.”

Thinking World Long Art Ideas Moments Bigs Light Earth Spirit Artist Given Dark Opposites Innocence That Moment Allowing Within You Shaking Light And Dark Saying Yes Yes And No

Author:Milton Resnick

“The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.”

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Author:Nicholas Negroponte

“Every kid thinks they have something special about themselves. Every adult thinks they have a big idea at some point in their life. Rather than pursue every thing they possibly can to prepare themselves to enable their idea or special talent, they tend to wing it and make excuses.”

Thinking Ideas Bigs Kids Special Talent Adults Wings Excuse Pursue Something Special Big Ideas Special Talents

Author:Mark Cuban

“When the word began to get out, the idea of tying imitations of aquatic worms was not met with universal approval in the fly-fishing community. It seems that worms had somehow gotten a bad name. I think a fishing pal of mine hit it on the head when he said, It just pisses them off that you can catch trout, I mean really big trout, on a fly that a five-year old can tie in twenty seconds!”

Source: Fly Fishing the Tailwaters

“A lot of ideas don't translate very well into art. To say, "Oh my god, the grass is green ..." You're going to end up with a big green painting.”

Wells Art Ideas Ends Bigs Painting Green Grass Translate

Author:John Baldessari

“Any idea that turns out to be truly great can be harvested for tens of years. On the other hand, if you want to continue to be great, you've got to bet on new things, big, bold bets.”

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Author:Steve Ballmer

“Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy to finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one area where I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter, and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”

“I'd like to write a big rock anthem again. I just need to listen to Korn, and then I might get the idea of how to do it.”

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Author:Robert Plant

“I think a lot about how ideas spread, how information spreads, why is it that something youre really proud of and you spend a lot of time creating sometimes doesnt go anywhere, and something that you kind of do on the side, on a lark, ends up getting shared and passed around and having this big impact.”

Thinking Kind Ideas Ends Sometimes Bigs Sides Information Proud Creating Impact Spread Larks Big Impact

Author:Jonah Peretti

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