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Big Idea Quotes

It was Friday, July 24, 1992, when I stepped on the train. Every year I think of it. I see it as my real birthday: the birth of me as a person, making decisions about my life on my own. I was not running away from Islam, or to democracy. I didn't have any big ideas then. I was just a young girl and wanted some way to be me; so I bolted into the unknown.
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali

People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?
- L M Montgomery

But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?
- L M Montgomery

There is no accountability today... no willingness to focus on big ideas.
- Michael Bloomberg

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

Plato had one Big Idea from which everything else derived. He fundamentally defined reality as that which is permanent and unchanging. Only ideas are permanent and unchanging; anything material deteriorates and decays.
- Norman F Cantor

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

The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.
- Rahm Emanuel

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
- J K Rowling

The reason Apple is really good, I think, and the reason their stores succeeded, is not just 'cause we know the big idea, but we have a real passion for the littlest detail. It's legendary in our products.
- Ron Johnson

Leaders must pick causes they won't abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks, and communicate their big ideas over and over again in every encounter.
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter

You have to know one big thing and stick with it. The leaders who had one very big idea and one very big commitment. This permitted them to create something. Those are the ones who leave a legacy.
- Irving Kristol

I have big ideas. If you don't like them, don't vote for me.
- Terry Mcauliffe

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

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

It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea.
- David Ogilvy

It's time for the party of big ideas, not the party of Big Brother!
- Mitt Romney

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

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

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