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We learn most readily, most naturally, most effectively, when we start with the big picture - precisely when the basics don't come first.
If a bush is too big, don't ask "should I?" Go ahead and cut it. If it lives, great. If it dies, replace it with something better suited!
When you are fooled by something else, the damage will not be so big. But when you are fooled by yourself, it is fatal. No more medicine.
There's not as much big money on the left, but you've got George Soros, who has the Open Society Institute. He's pushing liberal policies.
With comics, you always talk about a big break, but there are a lot of big breaks in your life and not one of them makes a big difference.
The Big Bang banged, and for some reason we’re here. And that’s astonishing. And that we can understand that, that’s the most astonishing.
There are things that aren't represented in movies that are a big part of everyone's life. This is a movie about health and about the body.
Sometimes you think the movie is good and BOOM! Sometimes you think it's no good. BAAM! The movie business is a big gamble. You never know.
The loyalty rate isn't that high. I could have a big hit, then put out the next single, and they say, Oh yeah, who are you? Prove it again.
Arnold was a dog's dog. Whenever he shuffled along walks and through alleyways, he always gave the impression of being on to something big.
I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary of William E. Dodd.
If there is a small rocket on top of a big one, and if the big one is jettisoned and the small one is ignited, then their speeds are added.
Even in my music, I am always searching for big, universal things - ways that you can sort of reach outside the norm of what you are doing.
It is a big adjustment but I've always loved that old saying of Jack Nicklaus: 'I retired from golf to go to work.' That sums it up for me.
I don't reverberate to victimhood, probably because of my own life. I refused to become a victim myself, so it's not one of my big stories.
Vaccines are not traditionally big money makers. They're given once or a few times in one's life, so they're never going to be blockbusters.
I'm lookin' forward to doin' a lot of big things. I've been doin' a lot of big things: a lot of traveling, a lot of recording - I'm excited.
The higher someone's profile, the easier it is for a defendant to trade him up to the feds. Mr. Big is always a better catch than Mr. Small.
Zoology, eh? That's a big word, isn't it." "No, actually it isn't," said Tiffany. "Patronizing is a big word. Zoology is really quite short.
I want to get a big, lifted truck with mudflaps on the back. Where I'm from, it's an agricultural area, so that's just how I've been raised.
You know when you hear the 22 suicides a day it's a big part of your question. But when you hear the 22 suicides a day that should never be.
Most of the big money people don't know what would interest an audience if you did it. They only know what interested the audience last time.
All my life I knew I would have a big business. That’s what I wanted from the time I was in second grade; there was never a doubt in my mind.
Graphic novel genre become really quite popular. It's really a big screen film genre that they have successfully moved into the small screen.
It's a very big deal to me to remain the same person because I know all of this is going to be gone one day and I'm just going to have myself.
I'm following the players, and it's great. We've never had so many Top 10 big players like now. There's so many out there that are very close.
There were also other things, but this was a big factor. It's sad, because she [Eve Plumb] was my best friend. We went through a lot together.
Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant.
The paparazzi have got worse for everyone over the years. It has just become such a big deal. No-one in this business really has much privacy.
I deposit in many banks including the bank of wisdom. The more I draw on my accounts, no matter how big the sum, the bigger my balance becomes
Any good parody takes a grain of truth and exaggerates it for the big screen. People ask me if I'm offended at all and I say not in the least.
I've always been a big proponent of not working for the sake of working, because I don't want to work for the rest of my life - I want to live.
Our waiting is not nothing. It is something -- a very big something -- because people tend to be shaped by whatever it is they are waiting for.
Making films is too big an undertaking to be doing it on a whim, so you're waiting all the time, until you finally meet the person who gets it.
What I notice about people who are gifted in filmmaking is that they're great thinkers. They engage with big ideas and they engage with people.
Curators are great, but they're inherently biased. Curators are always making an editorial decision. Those biases have really big implications.
I like sets that feel small. Sets that feel really big are difficult. When you're on a big set it feels like there's constant mis-communication.
I didn't know much about him, and I wasn't a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, so I didn't know a lot about him.
Big-picture thinkers broaden their outlook by striving to learn from every experience. They don't rest on their successes, they learn from them.
And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Big Things lurk unsaid inside.
With leadership the question at the beginning of the day is, 'how far can we take this...how big can we grow it...and how fast can we get there?'
'Lizzie McGuire' was my big thing when I was younger. I did buy some pencils and back-to-school stuff of hers because she was on it. I loved her.
There's a very big part of me that just wants to take all of comics history and toss it on the bonfire. I'd sort of like to get on to the future.
The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates.
The standard of writing that I'm getting now from 'Big Finish' compares very favourably with some of the stuff I was doing on screen in the '80s.
China's stock market is not very big. And yet when stock market has a bad day in China, it seems, Europe has a bad day and then we have a bad day.
In nature, if a cell gets too big, it divides. You can't come up with a set of rules that's going to work for 350 million people. You're just not.
We can have whatever it is we choose, I don't care how big it is. You become what you think about, but you also attract what you think about most.
We are all human beings. As such, we are part of a big family: the human family. The pain of any human being will somehow affect the entire family.
When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just five strings. I was only 6 or 7.