My ideas tend to be either really big in terms of like, the logistics, or really small.
I always follow the same idea: Start small and disrupt to create something big.
The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.
The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
All great pitches have a few things in common: the founder/team is wicked smart, the idea is big and a breakthrough, and the market is potentially enormous.
Your brain is like a plant. If you plant a seed in it, it will grow into a big idea.
I think most of the dramatic new ideas come from little companies that then grow big.
Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.
I had an idea, I was passionate about it and I had to work hard to turn that into a big success and more products.
A brilliant idea is like a baby in a mothers womb. You need to bring it out in the world, nurture it, feed it, grow it, till it becomes big enough to take care of itself. If you leave it at the stage of an idea itself, it is as good as non existent.
All the way back in 1999, when I first stumbled upon the idea of a project tracking John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson and all the major Depression-era bank robbers, I thought the subject was too big to be a single book. Instead, with a friend's hel...
If the idea is really new and unique and big, other people will all think it is bad and is going to fail.
Don’t just hope the big idea is going to come, make it happen
I like to say that I'm tracing the intersection between big ideas and human experience, between theology and real life.
This was a really big opportunity. This script was even mediocre. The idea was great, but Jay came on with his guys made it great and very specific. It all came together well.
I had no idea 'L.A. Law' would be so mega. I knew it was a big show, but I was just one actress in a group of many good, award-winning actresses.
The future is going to require really smart people. What we think are crises today probably will be no big deal, and we have no idea what will really be crises in the future.
My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life.
I saw a Shakespeare play when I was - I guess I was in junior high. And I just fell in love with the theater because, for me, it was a combination of big ideas and feeling.
So many self-help ideas are like meringue - you take a big bite, and there's nothing there.
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.
