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Big ideas start as weird ideas.
Get the big idea and all else follows.
Don't get any big ideas They're not gonna happen.
I have big ideas. If you don't like them, don't vote for me.
The best big idea is only going to be as good as its implementation.
The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.
Big ideas we tend to like are the ones that seem impossible or crazy.
Chicago is a world-class city filled with amazing people with big ideas.
There is no accountability today... no willingness to focus on big ideas.
I don't have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out.
The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
I am a joyful conservative, unafraid to articulate big ideas with an optimistic smile.
Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.
Voters go into the ballot box with big ideas in their mind: leadership, change, experience, hope.
I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.
I like new products, I like when YouTube changes, I like when people have big ideas and try things out.
My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life.
Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.
The American people want their presidents to articulate big ideas and leave the details to the eggheads.
I always tell people that revelling in big ideas for me is kind of like an antidote to existential angst.
Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.
We have big ideas. I just think that's part of how you campaign. You talk to the American people about big things.
I like to say that I'm tracing the intersection between big ideas and human experience, between theology and real life.
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.
I want big ideas to have aesthetic relevance. I want to tickle people's intellectual sensibilities and instill a sense of wonder.
I get so many big ideas while I'm running and such clarity while I'm lifting weights. And staying fit keeps me happy and positive.
When you're a kid, you have these big ideas and these big dreams to make a change, or maybe you feel like you can't make a difference.
You know that Vince Russo... when Russo and I agreed to work together, one of his big ideas was that he wanted Lance Storm to be my son.
Big ideas developed in a vacuum are doomed from the start. Feedback is the essential tool for building and growing a successful company.
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.
I want to build a Big Labor party. A party of big ideas. A party which is deeply connected to the community. A party which reflects our diverse nation.
I always played around with writing songs, but when you're spending a lot of time in bars, you have a lot of big ideas, but you don't do much with them.
There's going to be a Google or a Facebook or a Zynga every three to five years. Those are really big ideas that do return substantial amounts of money.
Leaders must pick causes they won't abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks, and communicate their big ideas over and over again in every encounter.
We've had three big ideas at Amazon that we've stuck with for 18 years, and they're the reason we're successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.
Openness explains the ability to innovate and come up with big ideas because you're open to them, and fluid intelligence explains the ability to go and execute.
Government is really successful when it's willing to make big, bold objectives, like, 'We're going to get to the moon.' But without leaders with big ideas, we get stuck.
I saw a Shakespeare play when I was - I guess I was in junior high. And I just fell in love with the theater because, for me, it was a combination of big ideas and feeling.
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.
If you ask me what minimalism is really about, I would say that it's the altering of values - enter the small doors of minimalism and come out on the other side with big ideas.
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.
The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth.
In some respects, big ideas can be a bit too big for a short story - especially if you've only got a couple of thousand words to play with, and you need room for other stuff, like character, description.
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.
We built 'Jade Empire,' then we built 'Mass Effect,' then we built 'Dragon Age.' With those last two, when you're dealing with two big ideas that are on their third iterations, you develop some strategies for managing your lore, or you drown!
In our quest to tweet, like, and trend, we have forgotten that brands can be built through advertising. Ads can generate big ideas that can never be trumped by tactics. That is the magic of an ad, and that is what is missing from many ads today.
The biggest of the big ideas that guided the strategy during the surge was explicit recognition that the most important terrain in the campaign in Iraq was the human terrain - the people - and our most important mission was to improve their security.
There's something about a supernatural universe that you would think would actually make it easier to create tension and build conflict and have big scares and big ideas and big sequences. And that's true in a lot of ways. You can pick the best idea out of a hat.
No one works harder at inspiring athletes all over the world than our team at Nike. Creating those experiences requires an amazing amount of energy, a steady flow of big ideas to excite and surprise people, and a constant dialogue that connects us on a personal level.
The reality of the Green party is that we are a party committed to bringing forward big ideas, new ideas and demonstrating by our conduct in parliament and through the election that we really want to work for Canadians, work across party lines, work across jurisdictions.