Quotes of: Big-idea Keyword

Any problem can be made clearer with a picture, and any picture can be created using the same set of tools and rules.

The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures

I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc.

Diane Wakoski

I wanted to explore cancer not just biologically, but metaphorically. The idea that tuberculosis in the 19th century possessed the same kind of frightening and decaying quality was very interesting to me, and it seemed that one could explore the idea...

Siddhartha Mukherjee

One of my top tips for aspiring entrepreneurs: Tell everyone you know about your idea. This runs contrary to the instinct that most people have, because they're afraid someone is going to 'steal my ideal.' Ideas alone are worth very little; it's in t...

Aaron Patzer

I had no idea 'The Dream Weaver' would be so successful. Everything just fell into place with that album. I pioneered a number of ideas with that album and subsequent tour. The all-keyboard approach with no guitars was a new one, and I was one of the...

Gary Wright

As an artist, illustrator, and photographer, most of my daily work was formed around the Art & Entertainment business, which was about packaging ideas that looked like they were crafted as artist ideas. In the distributed products, my artist credit w...

John Van Hamersveld

It's not as though the world hates you- it just has no idea who you are

Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps

Success starts with believing before you can achieve it.

How to Succeed in Life: Learn the Best Success Principles, Ideas and Skills to Achieving Your Dreams Now

Public speaking skills are an essential key to achieving career advancement and success.

How to Overcome the Fear of Public Speaking With Easy to Use Ideas, Tips and Strategies

Everyone, no matter how historically famous or modernly praised, has no idea about the ultimate truth of what it means to be human.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

It will be found that every attack upon religion, or upon characteristic ideas inherited from religion, when its assumptions are laid bare, turns out to be an attack upon mind.

Ideas Have Consequences

The popular culture gives us books that offer entertainment but no ideas. High culture gives us books that offer ideas but no entertainment. The best books manage to do both.

Reading Between the Lines

I had no idea there'd be so many Sherpas aboard!" exclaimed Miss Simpkins. "I'm not a Sherpa," Nadira said. "I'm a " "Oh, my goodness!" said the chaperone.

Skybreaker

Becoming limitless involves mental agility; the ability to quickly grasp and incorporate new ideas and concepts with confidence.

No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book

Live with an open mind and an open heart. Always choose love over fear and kindness over cruelty.

The One Idea That Saves The World: A Call to Conscience and A Call to Action

No! Wait! I've got a better idea..." "Your ideas tend to result in unnecessary violence, Sergeant Schlock." "And your point is..." "Let's broaden the definition of 'necessary'." -Sergeant Schlock & Captain Tagon

The Tub of Happiness

: When, however, the lay public rallies round an idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists and supports that idea with great fervor and emotion—the distinguished but elderly scientists are then, after all, probably right.

Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright

A great idea should always be left to steep like loose tea leaves in a teapot for a while to make sure that the tea will be strong enough and that the idea truly is a great one.

The Romeo And Juliet Code

In a battle between  two ideas, the best one doesn't necessarily win. No, the idea that wins is the one with the most fearless heretic behind it.

Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

(Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious man turns to the idea of God.

Wallace Stevens: The Poems of Our Climate

Silicon-based life may be impossible for one other reason: silicon bonds readily dissolve in water.

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation