Quotes of: Big-idea Keyword

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Pablo Picasso

Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.

Paula Poundstone

Tunisia will continue to be a source of influence, not through its size but through the ideas and the models that it represents.

Rashid al-Ghannushi

Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Ideas can't die, not because they are conceived by humans, but because time begets them.

Raheel Farooq

Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Remy de Gourmont

I think lots of ideas are sometimes in our heads without us quite, you know, knowing it.

Rachel Joyce

I started doing radio pieces with no clear, preconceived idea, except that I have a tendency to be theatrical.

Ricky Jay

I loved the idea of Travolta sitting on the kid's swing, pining away for his girlfriend.

Randal Kleiser

To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

Stephen Fry

I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.

Shelby Foote

I don't go in search of ideas; I try to let them find me.

Sue Monk Kidd

Minimalism wasn't a real idea - it ended before it started.

Sol LeWitt

Sometimes ideas feel like they were already there, and that you're just discovering them.

Stephenie Meyer

We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman.

Sydney Pollack

Not surprisingly, troubled economic times often beget proselytizers of wacky, extreme ideas.

Steven Rattner

Wilderness, like the national park system, was an American idea.

Stewart Udall

I always like playing with some sort of typical convention or idea and turning it over.

Thom Browne

I'm excited about the idea of an act of theatre triggering a parallel creative act of writing.

Tim Crouch