Big idea Quotes · Page 5

There's something about a supernatural universe that you would think would actually make it easier to create tension and build conflict and…

— Julie Plec

The big idea we start with is: "How is the genome interpreted, and how are stable decisions that affect gene expression inherited…

— Shirley M. Tilghman

“Plato had one Big Idea from which everything else derived. He fundamentally defined reality as that which is permanent and unchanging. Only…

— Norman F. Cantor

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

— Rahm Emanuel

If you have a big idea and you go after it, you have to get the right team together.

— Michael G. Rubin

I worked on it [ Too Much Tuna] for a little bit downtown and it was a great experience. I couldn't believe…

— Alex Timbers

“Large-scale change is grounded in small steps toward a big idea”

— Stewart Friedman

“Agencies missed the significance of “shareholder value” and the change in priorities that it represented to their clients. They assumed, perhaps, that…

— Michael Farmer

“I was once driven north along Central Park, all the way from Chinatown. We hailed the cab in front of a building…

— Alex Kudera

When I think of invention, I always think of America. You're always seeing ads: 'Have you got the next big idea?' There…

— Simon Cowell

Get the big idea and all else follows.

— B. J. Palmer

“When I was in power, I found that experts can’t be trusted. For this simple reason: unlike tyrants, they are under no…

— John Updike

I always played around with writing songs, but when you're spending a lot of time in bars, you have a lot of…

— Dave Gahan

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

— Scarlett Thomas

I would like to have insights into things like government, all those big ideas that you brought up that I simply don't…

— Jasper Johns

I was raised to think about philosophy and religious thought and the soul and the spirit of humankind in a different way,…

— Rainn Wilson

“We don’t need big ideas and tools. All we need is a sense of understanding and a will to trust. Yes, we…

— Bhuwan Thapaliya

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

— Claire Messud

Regardless of how lyrical or rhetorically gifted they are in conveying big ideas, any candidate can do a good job of giving…

— Jon Lovett

Big thoughts are fun to romanticize, but it's many small insights coming together that bring big ideas into the world.

— Scott Berkun

People with big ideas worry. They lie awake at night and fret as they try to climb up the social or financial…

— Lisa Jewell

I've farmed all my life and I have big ideas on how to grow agriculture jobs in West Virginia.

— Jim Justice

Big Idea - Your days are your life in miniature. As you live your hours, so you create your years. As you…

— Robin Sharma

To finish first you have to first finish. Don't get in a position where you go back to go. What's interesting is…

— Charlie Munger

Now, ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an idea itself…

— B. C. Forbes