Big Ideas Quotes

#1. Any idea can be a great idea if you think differently, dream big and commit to seeing it realized

Richard Branson

#2. 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.

Olivia Thirlby

#3. I had no idea that, when you audition for television or movies, you go to a big building - like, an office building - and you walk in the room, and everybody, I assumed, was smarter than me and better than me, and there's actors you recognize. I once fainted at an audition.

Kurt Fuller

#4. Shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age? Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx-first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a government being Big Brother.

Ronald Reagan

#5. The American people ... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.

Rahm Emanuel

#6. Big ideas start as weird ideas.

Patri Friedman

#7. I love the idea of doing comedy, whether it's action comedy or just straight comedy. It's such a big, new world for me that I'm starting to realize that any character that I relate to, in any way, shape or form, or that I have any appreciation for, given enough preparation, I can find that person.

Zoe Bell

#8. There are a million ideas in a world of stories. Humans are storytelling animals. Everything's a story, everyone's got stories, we're perceiving stories, we're interested in stories. So to me, the big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what's the right way to tell a particular story.

Richard Linklater

#9. My ideas tend to be either really big in terms of like, the logistics, or really small.

Cary Fukunaga

#10. When we know why we're here as individuals and leaders, when our people know why they're here, a sense of purpose carries us forward, and we can do what needs to be done. People want to work on big ideas that matter to them and make a difference. When they do, they find gold.

Howard Behar

#11. Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas.

Brian Selznick

#12. 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.

Annette Bening

#13. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing.

John Green

#14. On my walks, that's when the good ideas come. The kind of hard, gritty work is when you're sitting at the computer and it's kind of intense and you're kind of in super control of it - the walks are when you let go. That's when the really big breakthroughs come in, and it's very strange.

Maria Semple

#15. The hiring of Phil Messina, the production designer, was a big decision. He's so gifted, and his ideas were always so smart and rooted in American history and architecture. Nothing feels like it's not us, or couldn't be us, and I think that's very important.

Nina Jacobson

#16. 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.

John Baldessari

#17. I want big ideas to have aesthetic relevance. I want to tickle people's intellectual sensibilities and instill a sense of wonder.

Jason Silva

#18. I wanted to make a redemptive thriller that didn't end with some kind of big, crazy shootout and blood spill, but more of a collision of ideas and a discussion of ethics.

Joel Edgerton

#19. No man is as big as his own idea.

Ray Bradbury

#20. Paul Levinson has outdone himself: The Plot to Save Socrates is a philosophically rich gem full of big ideas and wonderful time-travel tricks.

Robert J. Sawyer

#21. 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.

Thomas Vilsack

#22. 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.

Moby

#23. Lots of people dream big and talk about big bold ideas but never do anything. I judge people by what they've done. The ratio of something to nothing is infinite. So just do something.

Peter Diamandis

#24. 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.

Steve Young

#25. If you come up with the original idea on your laptop, anything else is an embellishment of that idea. It's nice to have the option to mix inside a big studio, but at the end of the day, it comes from an original spark, which often happens while sitting on the couch.

Hudson Mohawke

#26. We become what we think; we don't become what we don't think about. When we think of a bigger picture, that's what we get printed.

Israelmore Ayivor

#27. I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not my weakness. I am not interested if anyone knows whether or not I am familiar with big words, I am interested in trying to render big ideas in a simple way. I am interested in being understood not admired.

Lucille Clifton

#28. Idealism is based on big ideas. And, as anybody who has ever been asked "What's the big idea?" knows, most big ideas are bad ones.

P. J. O'Rourke

#29. I'd like to be remembered, as a copywriter who had some big ideas. That's what the advertising business is all about. Big ideas

David Ogilvy

#30. I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#31. 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.

Nikola Tesla

#32. Playing Destroyo, who was sort of a Silence Of The Lambs type character, I'd say I was wearing about 50 pounds of rubber and foam rubber and makeup. But I had no idea who The Tick was. I'm not a big graphic-novel guy. I don't even know if The Tick was a graphic novel!

Kurt Fuller

#33. The fact that you have started a small business doesn't mean you should be thinking small. Think BIG! Start Small! Expand your territories!

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#34. Is this your bedroom?" she asked, and turned to look at him. Myrnin straightened and jammed the big red floppy hat back on his head. The feathers waved back and forth.
"Don't get any ideas," he said. "I'm far too young and innocent for that kind of thinking.

Rachel Caine

#35. If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and scratch ourselves in public. We can play with Big Ideas because the garish motley of our pulp origins make us seem harmless.

Bruce Sterling

#36. I can't disagree. I laugh weakly, walking him to the door. As he leaves I'm wondering and not wondering what happens in the world of Tim Price, which is really the world of most of us: big ideas, guy stuff, boy meets the world, boy gets it.

Bret Easton Ellis

#37. Big Cliff Lazarenko's idea of exercise is sitting in a room with the windows open taking the lid off something cool and fizzy.

Sid Waddell

#38. It's so flattering to know that Wilton is a fan of mine, because I've been a big fan of theirs for a long time. I use their products when I bake, and I can't wait to see what ideas we come up with together.

Rosanna Pansino

#39. Believe in something larger than yourself ... get involved in the big ideas of your time.

Barbara Bush

#40. We need modern ideas, but we also need ancient wisdom. If we deny ancient wisdom we are making a big mistake.

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#41. I just kept moodling. I came up with hundreds of ideas. Most of them were too small, but I kept at it and after a while I moodled up a few big ones. With some tinkering, I turned those big ideas into real possibilities and from there I created my masterpiece..." -Dill

Paige Britt

#42. I think sometimes Richmond, especially the House of Delegates, thinks too small ... Richmond is not doing what needs to be done, forward thinking, big bold ideas.

Terry McAuliffe

#43. strong ideas block the recollection of other information. This phenomenon is a big problem when a group sets itself the task of generating creative solutions.

Anonymous

#44. I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.

Michael Moorcock

#45. 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.

Jasper Johns

#46. There's the big advantage of backwardness. By the time the latest ideas reach Chicago, they're worn thin and easy to see through. You don't have to bother with them and it saves lots of trouble.

Saul Bellow

#47. Count on big lines to express your ideas.

Robert Henri

#48. We don't have a farm-to-table food safety system. I keep saying this. It came as a big surprise to the FDA that tomatoes were being grown in the United States, sent to Mexico for packing, and then sent back. I mean, they had no idea that our food chain worked like this.

Marion Nestle

#49. Competence is a big word. It is important. I almost want to nuance it with the idea of giftedness because sometimes you can teach a lot of skills on exposition but a person may not have the competence or the giftedness to do it. Therefore, it is very important to have that.

Ravi Zacharias

#50. It is a myth that the success of science in our time is mainly due to the huge amounts of money that have been spent on big machines. What really makes science grow is new ideas, including false ideas.

Karl Popper

#51. I get ideas from everything. A big color, the sound of water and wind, or a flash of something cool. Playing is like life. Either you feel it or you don't.

Erroll Garner

#52. Big ideas are so hard to recognize, so fragile, so easy to kill. don't forget that, all of you who don't have them.

John Elliott

#53. Everything of mine is permeated with my love of ideas-both big and small. It doesn't matter what it is, as long as it grabs me and holds me, facinates me. And then I'll run out and something about it ... I write for fun.

Ray Bradbury

#54. You're also looking at a global warming solution here in Europe: smaller vehicles, more energy efficient, many which use diesel fuel which is more efficient. And the price of gas here is $6 a gallon to discourage guzzling. A lot of big ideas and innovations coming out of Europe.

Chris Cuomo

#55. Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure.They're huge and abstract. And they're very beautiful.

David Lynch

#56. 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.

Robert Plant

#57. The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.

P. J. O'Rourke

#58. It's probably fair to say that Obama's ideas were too big for America's appetite. It would have been nice had he made a few incremental repairs to the economy and left the transformative events for a less stressful time.

Kathleen Parker

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

Damon Lindelof

#60. The press is hostile to the idea of liberty. Most people in the press are for big government. Most people think that the solution to anything, whether it's health care problems, education, whatever it is - it's got to be more government.

Harry Browne

#61. For me, the most absorbing films are those that address big questions and real ideas but embody them in small examples that we can appreciate and comprehend.

Lisa Randall

#62. I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative history.

Jonathan Coe

#63. What is the most powerful lever you can imagine? A big idea, but only if it's in the hands of a truly outstanding entrepreneur. It starts with the person and the idea, and then grows to the institution. All three are intertwined.

Bill Drayton

#64. One of the things the novel can do is address big questions in ways that are accessible to people. It's not that I want to teach people, but these are the things that interest me, and this is my medium for exploring ideas, and I think the potential of novels to do that is massive.

Samantha Harvey

#65. The job of the leader is to get the big ideas right.

David Petraeus

#66. Big companies have trouble with innovation. Innovation is about bad ideas, or ideas that look like bad ideas. That's the fundamental thing.

Ben Horowitz

#67. It's time for the party of big ideas, not the party of Big Brother!

Mitt Romney

#68. I did grow up in France, and even though I didn't go to the school or dance with the Paris Opera Ballet, I absorbed similar ideas in my training. I understand the scale of a big company. I danced for one for almost 20 years.

Benjamin Millepied

#69. That's so her. You know, torn between Big Ideas and a party. She's always been that way.

Claire Messud

#70. 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.

Ben Whishaw

#71. And, if you'll investigate the history of science, my dear boy, I think you'll find that most of the really big ideas have come from intelligent playfulness. All the sober, thin-lipped concentration is really just a matter of tidying up around the fringes of the big ideas.

Kurt Vonnegut

#72. 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.

Ted Haggard

#73. 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.

Bill Shorten

#74. Big ideas come from forward thinking people who challenge the norm, think outside the box, and invent the world they see inside rather than submitting to the limitations of current dilemmas

T.D. Jakes

#75. In the Big Pond chapter, I talked about the fact that being on the outside, in a less elite and less privileged environment, can give you more freedom to pursue your own ideas and academic interests.

Malcolm Gladwell

#76. If you have a truly big idea, the wrong technique won't kill it. And if you don't have a big idea, the right technique won't help you

David Ogilvy

#77. I get a lot of big ideas, and occasionally I actually come up with one myself.

Bauvard

#78. Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.

Thomas Carlyle

#79. There are a lot of good ideas that could benefit from big media. You have a lot of companies that hit a wall and can't get beyond a certain level. They need the infrastructure and distribution of a large company.

Ross Levinsohn

#80. There are two kinds of great power which can shake the earth: Mega earthquakes and big ideas!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

Gordon Bell

#82. Kids have no idea when they're drinking soda what they're really drinking, and a lot of them are stunned when they learn that drinking a Big Gulp is like taking a big jar of sugar and just pouring it down. There are 50 teaspoons of sugar in a 64-ounce Big Gulp.

Eric Schlosser

#83. The constant influx of new cultures, new ideas and new ways of looking at old problems is a big part of the reason why America has been the most dynamic economy in the world for well over a century.

Gary Locke

#84. A book is a better way to develop a complicated idea, or to tell a big story and to show how ideas weave in and out of each other, which is something that comes up a lot in happiness because all these ideas are interconnected.

Gretchen Rubin

#85. I have big ideas. If you don't like them, don't vote for me.

Terry McAuliffe

#86. The idea of jiu-jitsu is to give the little guy a chance to beat the big guy.

Royce Gracie

#87. One of my big pet peeves is single-use plastic bags. I think it's one of the stupidest ideas in the world.

Philippe Cousteau Jr.

#88. Big ideas developed in a vacuum are doomed from the start. Feedback is the essential tool for building and growing a successful company.

Jay Samit

#89. This means that, where appropriate, we will dive into mathematical equations, mathematical intuition, mathematical axioms, and cartoon versions of big mathematical ideas.

Joel Grus

#90. I don't have a drawer full of ideas. I kind of look around and take notes and wonder what could actually be a whole movie. And each time, I think I'm going to do it more commercial this time; I'm going to get a big budget and make it. But I always come up with some small idea.

Nicole Holofcener

#91. It's hard to find ideas that aren't picked over and harder to get real returns and differentiate yourself. We are entering a new environment. The days of big returns are gone.

Steven A. Cohen

#92. The best big idea is only going to be as good as its implementation.

Jay Samit

#93. 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.

Jeff Bezos

#94. 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.

Duncan Sheik

#95. There's so much stuff that has yet to be invented. There's so much new that's going to happen. People don't have any idea yet how impactful the internet is going to be and that this is still Day 1 in such a big way.

Jeff Bezos

#96. The beauty of having a studio is I can go in and record any time I want to, so you can always put down your ideas or whatever. You use your voice recorder and, you know, take your voice notes down and just preserve all the little jewels and gems when you're in there, putting that song together.

Big Boi

#97. When a big man has a big idea I never like to stand in his way.

Margaret Thatcher

#98. Sustainability is now a big baggy sack in which people throw all kinds of old ideas, hot air and dodgy activities in order to be able to greenwash their products and feel good.

Kevin McCloud

#99. There's some people who say big philanthropy is not such a good idea, meaning that somehow you have enormous power and you're not elected and that that may not be such a good idea to have people with enormous wealth to have so much influence.

Charlie Rose

#100. Small ideas that turn into big ideas - that really inspires me.

Wiz Khalifa