Big ideas start as weird ideas.

All great ideas start as weird ideas. What now seems obvious, early on, is not obvious to anybody.

— Steve Case

I don't like to talk about big ideas until I start formally working on it.

— John Wilson

I am not going to make promises I can't keep. I am not going to talk about big ideas like single-payer and then not…

— Hillary Clinton

The only big ideas I've ever had came from daydreaming, but modern life keeps people from daydreaming. Every moment of the day your mind…

— Paul MacCready

You will never win fame and fortune unless you invent big ideas.

— David Ogilvy

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

— Barbara Bush

“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…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I always tell people that revelling in big ideas for me is kind of like an antidote to existential angst.

— Jason Silva

“There is a current perception is that science has overtaken Philosophy and in effect rendered Philosophy irrelevant. Science, when sufficiently abstracted, approaches Philosophy in…

— Tom Golway

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

— David Petraeus

You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. Travel is very inspirational - but it's in the ordinary that…

— Adriana Trigiani

“You want the story of my life? Big ideas, small results.”

— Barbara Stanwyck

All the big ideas for getting us onto a lower carbon trajectory involve a lot of people doing a lot of work, and that's…

— Van Jones

People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them,…

— Anonymous

I've never been shy about big ideas.

— Francis X. Suarez