Bigger Quotes - Page 24

• If you want to know everything about the market, go to the beach. Push and pull your hands with the waves. Some are bigger waves, some are smaller. But if you try to push the wave out when it's coming in, it'll never happen. The market is always right.

  Ed Seykota

  Beach, Hands, Trying

  "Trading 102: Getting Down to Business". Book by Sunny J Harris, 1998.

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• Bigger the risk, bigger the reward. But the higher the climb the harder the fall.

  Greyson Chance

  Fall, Risk, Rewards

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• Then came a bigger fear. Not the threat of imminent injury, but the fear that if I didn't go back up, I would be a chickenshit forever.

  John Sherman

  Climbing, Forever, Would Be

  John Sherman (2012). “Sherman Exposed: Slightly Censored Climbing Stories”, p.176, The Mountaineers Books

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• Pick the right sized pot, don't pick a pot five times bigger, twice as big.

  Steven Chu

  Pot, Bigs, Five

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• Never put a lid on God. You can give God a thimble and ask for a quart. It won't work. Your plans, your projects, your dreams have to always be bigger than you, so God has room to operate. I want you to get good ideas, crazy ideas, extravagant ideas. Nothing is too much for The Lord to do - accent on 'The Lord'.

  Mother Angelica

  Dream, Crazy, Ideas

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• There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Book, Writing, Differences

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• Love is bigger than any tidal wave or fear.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Love Is, Surfer, Wave

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• They [INTJs] are likely, however, to organize themselves out of a job. They cannot continually reorganize the same thing, and a finished product has no more interest. Thus, they need successive new assignments, with bigger and better problems, to stretch their powers.

  Isabel Briggs Myers

  Jobs, Needs, Bigger And Better

  Isabel Briggs Myers, Peter B. Myers (2010). “Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type”, p.114, Hachette UK

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• The French Revolution was nothing but a precursor of another revolution, one that will be bigger, more solemn, and which will be the last.

  Francois-Noel Babeuf

  Lasts, Revolution, Solemn

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• Becoming a strategic thinker is about opening your mind to possibilities. It’s about seeing the bigger picture. It’s about understanding the various parts of your business, taking them apart, and then putting them back together again in a more powerful way. It’s about insight, invention, emotion and imagination focused on reshaping some part of the world.

  Max McKeown

  Powerful, Together Again, Imagination

  Max Mckeown (2013). “The Strategy Book ePub eBook: How to Think and Act Strategically to Deliver Outstanding Results”, p.31, Pearson UK

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• Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than we are, and much more forgiving.

  Diane Frolov

  Kids, Tree, Forgiving

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• If we can write or sing or create in some way, even when we are dealing with difficulties or pain, then it becomes something bigger than ourselves — and often beautiful.

  Brenda Peterson

  Beautiful, Pain, Writing

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• When you are surrounded by something so big that requires you to change everything about the way you think and see the world, then denial is the natural response. But the longer we wait, the bigger the response required.

  Paul Gilding

  Thinking, Waiting, Denial

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• Children are a burden to a mother, but not the way a heavy box is to a mule. Our children weight hard on my heart, and thinking about them growing up honest and healthy, or just living to grow up at all, makes a load in my chest that is bigger than the safe at the bank,and more valuable to me than all the gold inside it.

  Nancy E. Turner

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

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• Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

  Gary Cherone

  Years, Band, Dave

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• I’m aware that there is a bigger, far more complicated world out there than I’d ever realized, and just like the students at Beijing University, I’ve glimpsed it only fleetingly, peripherally. I’ve sensed the vast expanse of my own ignorance now. I feel antsy and constricted and a deep, almost sexual yearning for velocity, for some sort of raw, transcendent experience that I cannot even begin to articulate.

  Susan Jane Gilman

  Ignorance, Complicated World, Velocity

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• We have to be part of something larger than ourselves, because our dreams are often bigger than our lifetimes.

  Rosalie Bertell

  Dream, Lifetime, Our Dreams

  "In What Do I Place My Trust?" by Rosalie Bertell, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 18, 2005.

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• The bigger story here is that the fabric of the Net has changed; it’s a place for people to connect up around shared interests and then collaborate towards some sort of action.

  Steve Rubel

  People, Stories, Fabric

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• Rather than shrinking away from your problems, grow bigger than them.

  Zig Ziglar

  Shrinking, Problem, Grows

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• The "trickle-down" theory: the principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals.

  William Blum

  Giving, Tables, Principles

  William Blum (2003). “Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II”, p.20, Zed Books

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• You get to the point where your demons, which are terrifying, get smaller and smaller and you get bigger and bigger.

  August Wilson

  Demon

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• If you always hire people who are bigger than you are, we shall become a company of giants

  David Ogilvy

  People, Giants, Company

  David Ogilvy (2012). “The Unpublished David Ogilvy”, p.105, Profile Books

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• I prefer the smaller budget versus the bigger budget because the mentality that goes along with big budget filmmaking doesn't really suit me; the mind-set that money is the answer.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Movie, Money, Mind

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• Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Add, Earth, Ancestor

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “Lanterns: A Memoir of Mentors”, p.7, Beacon Press

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• Crimes against humanity in Gaza: is it really a 'buffer zone' - or a bigger plan? -- It's time to step back and ask if we want to support Israel if it wants to eject all Palestinians from their land.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Israel, Land, Support

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