The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
It's the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there's nothing more powerful. — Bill Drayton Copy Share Image
America needs a big idea that plays to its strength. It should look to national service. — Stanley A. McChrystal Copy Share Image
Every novel starts with a theme, and I am constantly looking for big ideas. — Peter James Copy Share Image
“I get a lot of big ideas, and occasionally I actually come up with one myself.” — Bauvard Copy Share Image
The American people want their presidents to articulate big ideas and leave the details to the eggheads. — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
I think architecture is rarely the product of a single ideology. It's more like it can be shaped by a really big… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
The reason Apple is really good, I think, and the reason their stores succeeded, is not just 'cause we know the big… — Ron Johnson Copy Share Image
“First you need career capital, which requires patience. Second, you need to be ceaselessly scanning your always-changing view of the adjacent possible… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But that initial, comet-blazing-across-the-sky, Big Idea is only the beginning. Each book is composed of a mosaic of thousands of little ideas,… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
The biggest inspiration I had was to take norteno soul music and fuse it with Mexican music. It was my great big… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
Many venture capitalists say they're looking for the next big idea. But they aren't, really; they're looking for something derivative, because derivative… — Jose Ferreira Copy Share Image
The big idea of, 'Hey, I can pay anyone, anywhere, with whatever digital wallet they have, and it just flows around the… — Jeremy Allaire Copy Share Image
I want big ideas to have aesthetic relevance. I want to tickle people's intellectual sensibilities and instill a sense of wonder. — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
What do I mean when I say 'suspended animation'? It is the process by which animals de-animate, appear dead and then can… — Mark Roth Copy Share Image
I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not my weakness. I am not interested if anyone knows whether… — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
“Everything in life, except her kids, made her impatient. She had tried to do a million things. She'd wanted to be a… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
I think the greatest thing we give each other is encouragement...knowing that I'm talking to someone in this mentoring relationship who's interested… — Anne Sweeney Copy Share Image
The productiveness of any meeting depends on the level of thought given to the agenda in advance, and you should never leave… — Barbara Corcoran Copy Share Image
Regardless of how lyrical or rhetorically gifted they are in conveying big ideas, any candidate can do a good job of giving… — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
Big ideas, big ambitious projects need to be embedded within culture at a level deeper than the political winds. It needs to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When you're in operations, the best thing you can do at the top level is get the strategy right. You have to… — James Mattis Copy Share Image
Chicago is a world-class city filled with amazing people with big ideas. — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of great power which can shake the earth: Mega earthquakes and big ideas! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“Maybe the key is that Big Ideas are Little Ideas but told in Big Ways?” — Holly Goldberg Sloan Copy Share Image
I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future. — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces. — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
My big idea is that democracy can only work properly if you have truly representative people at the table. — Pramila Jayapal Copy Share Image
Paul Levinson has outdone himself: The Plot to Save Socrates is a philosophically rich gem full of big ideas and wonderful time-travel… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter how complex your plot or your characters are; you have to be able to express the big idea of… — Gurinder Chadha Copy Share Image
I'd like to be remembered, as a copywriter who had some big ideas. That's what the advertising business is all about. Big… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
The third big idea is that we confess our sins to someone close to us--a friend or our spouse. I don't mean… — Ted Haggard Copy Share Image
If you ask me what minimalism is really about, I would say that it's the altering of values - enter the small… — Fumio Sasaki Copy Share Image
The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
