Small Ideas Quotes

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  Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.

  Tom Peters

  Passion, Ideas, People

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• Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -certainly no more difficult - than small ideas and small plans.

  David J. Schwartz

  Believe, Winning, Thinking

  David J. Schwartz (2014). “The Magic of Thinking Big”, p.20, Penguin

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• I don't have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out.

  Matt Mullenweg

  Ideas, Work Out, Entrepreneur

  "WordPress, Matt Mullenweg". Interview With Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2006.

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• Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

  Albert Camus

  Love, Men, Precious Stones

  Albert Camus (1972). “The Plague”, eBookEden.com

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• Small ideas that turn into big ideas - that really inspires me.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Ideas, Inspire, Bigs

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• For some odd reason, I had an early and extreme multidisciplinary cast of mind. I couldn't stand reaching for a small idea in my own discipline when there was a big idea right over the fence in somebody else's discipline. So I just grabbed in all directions for the big ideas that would really work.

  Charlie Munger

  Ideas, Discipline, Mind

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• I never think of an entire book at once. I always just start with a very small idea. In 'Holes,' I just began with the setting; a juvenile correctional facility located in the Texas desert. Then I slowly make up the story, and rewrite it several times, and each time I rewrite it, I get new ideas, and change the old ideas around.

  Louis Sachar

  Book, Thinking, Texas

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• The best way to support dreams and stretch is to set apart small ideas with big potential, then give people positive role models and the resources to turn small projects into big businesses.

  Jack Welch

  Leadership, Dream, Ideas

  "Jack: Straight from the Gut". Book by Jack Welch, 2001.

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• If you both agree at a conscious level that the purpose of your relationship is to create an opportunity, not an obligation-an opportunity for growth, for full Self expression, for lifting your lives to their highest potential, for healing every false thought or small idea you ever had about you, and for ultimate reunion with God through the communion of your two souls-if you take that vow instead of the vows you've been taking-the relationship has begun on a very good note.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Life, Religious

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.112, Penguin

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• If Google teaches you anything, it's that small ideas can be big.

  Ben Silbermann

  Ideas, Entrepreneur, Google

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• The European boys have small ideas but they sure know how to dress 'em up.

  George Gershwin

  Boys, Ideas, Dresses

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• There are a lot of people building small ideas now. There's an idealization of being an entrepreneur, but the most important thing is to have a really great idea.

  Dustin Moskovitz

  Ideas, People, Entrepreneur

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• There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual accumulation of numerous small ideas.

  Diane Setterfield

  Single Mom, Writing, Ideas

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.416, Simon and Schuster

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• I took my orders, too. But if i couldn't keep you alive, I thought I could at least keep you together. In the middle of a big war, you go looking for a small idea to believe in. When you find one, you hold it the way a soldier holds his crucifix when he's praying in a foxhole.

  Mitch Albom

  War, Believe, Order

  Mitch Albom (2009). “The Five People You Meet In Heaven”, p.55, Hachette UK

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

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Motivational Sports, Ideas, Welcome

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• And from, you know, small ideas, bigger ideas emerge. So we're starting with suborbital space flights and we'll then go into orbital space flights and, you know, maybe one day we'll send people on a one-way voyage into the depths of space as per the science fiction trips.

  Richard Branson

  Space Flight, Ideas, People

  "Richard Branson: Time To Rethink 'Business As Usual'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 1, 2011.

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