Words matter. These are the best Big Ideas Quotes from famous people such as Sam Altman, Marine Le Pen, Hanna Rosin, W. Kamau Bell, David Petraeus, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.
It’s true that I have a strong social sensibility, because – bah, because I raised thre children on my own, and I know the difficulties that can represent. All of that makes it appear that there’s a difference between Jean-Marie Le Pen’s program and mine. But the big ideas are the same.
Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting ‘big ideas’ pieces.
Chicago is a world-class city filled with amazing people with big ideas.
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.
I want big ideas to have aesthetic relevance. I want to tickle people’s intellectual sensibilities and instill a sense of wonder.
The American people want their presidents to articulate big ideas and leave the details to the eggheads.
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.
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.
Believe in something larger than yourself… get involved in the big ideas of your time.
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.
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.
I like new products, I like when YouTube changes, I like when people have big ideas and try things out.
Big ideas developed in a vacuum are doomed from the start. Feedback is the essential tool for building and growing a successful company.
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.
We have big ideas. I just think that’s part of how you campaign. You talk to the American people about big things.
I always tell people that revelling in big ideas for me is kind of like an antidote to existential angst.
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.
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.
Too many politicians are shifting the critical themes of our national conversations from a ‘big ideas’ American Brand Platform to narrowly focused, polarizing sound bites that put party philosophy before what used to be heralded as the common good. These ideas, more often than not, divide us rather than serve to bind us.
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.
There is no accountability today… no willingness to focus on big ideas.
I have big ideas. If you don’t like them, don’t vote for me.
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.
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.
I like to say that I’m tracing the intersection between big ideas and human experience, between theology and real life.
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.
Regardless of how lyrical or rhetorically gifted they are in conveying big ideas, any candidate can do a good job of giving a speech if the goal of a speech is more than just delivering it well but achieving some end, whether it’s convincing people of some issue or persuading them about you as a person.
Big ideas, big ambitious projects need to be embedded within culture at a level deeper than the political winds. It needs to be deeper than the economic fluctuations that could turn people against an expensive project because they’re on an unemployment line and can’t feed their families.
Big ideas we tend to like are the ones that seem impossible or crazy.
