I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big.
The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.
To be successful, you must act big, think big and talk big.
There is always room in your life for thinking bigger, pushing limits and imagining the impossible.
If you think small, your world will be small. If you think big, your world will be big.
If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can't think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left.
Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.
If people aren't calling you crazy, you aren't thinking big enough.
We Americans are trained to think big, talk big, act big, love big, admire bigness but then the essential mystery is in the small.
Whatever you're thinking, think bigger.
A lot of people think big business in America is a bad thing. I think it's a really good thing. Most people in business are ethical, hard-working, good people. And it's a meritocracy.
The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.
To THINK BIG and to use our talents doesn't mean we won't have difficulties along the way. We will - we all do... If we choose to see the obstacles in our path as barriers, we stop trying. "We can't win," we moan. "They won't let us win."
Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.
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