The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better. From LearnThat.org. [Erik Johnson]
Although bigness is not synonymous with greatness neither is smallness synonymous with high quality. From Wordnik.com. [Who's Who and Why] Reference
The concept of bigness is apt to be a delusion, and standardizing processes must not supplant creative impulses. From Wordnik.com. [George R. Minot - Banquet Speech] Reference
While mere bigness is not the criteria, the optimum sized industry really is the criteria of contribution to productivity. From Wordnik.com. [The Resultant of Forces] Reference
VCs can help you jumpstart, sure, but raising 100 or 400 million dollars to skip all the steps on the way to bigness is rare indeed. From Wordnik.com. [The Cliff] Reference
The concept that bigness is bad is a weakness in our mental attitude toward our economy, and Lilienthal made a very good study of it. From Wordnik.com. [Is the Businessman Coming Into His Own?] Reference
MR. RANDALL: David Lilienthal has just written a new book directed to the fact that bigness is a basic misconception in American life. From Wordnik.com. [Is the Businessman Coming Into His Own?] Reference
I find that statement particularly significant in that it has a pejorative connotation: bigness is apparently assumed to require restraint. From Wordnik.com. [The New Society: New Title, Same Old Debate] Reference
I have no idea how they calculate 'bigness' - record sales?. From Wordnik.com. [Word Magazine -] Reference
The first "occurrence" was of the same order as the "bigness" -- extraordinarily difficult, that is, to confirm by actual measurement. From Wordnik.com. [The Centaur] Reference
Interpretation: the 'bigness' was probably a grenade. From Wordnik.com. [The 9th Directive]
It shows our strength and the 'bigness' of our big tent. From Wordnik.com. [Lieberman �� A Defense of the Connecticut Senator] Reference
It is a delusion that this kind of bigness brings big human rewards. From Wordnik.com. [A Renegade Psychiatrist's Story]
Humans tend to equate "bigness" with success, status and leadership. From Wordnik.com. [Leadership: A Powerful Differentiator] Reference
If it weren't for pictures of me during the years of my "bigness". From Wordnik.com. [ugotsoul Diary Entry] Reference
He also thinks big, but without the overwhelming 'bigness' of, say, Baxter. From Wordnik.com. [When is Algebra Fun?] Reference
You seem to place a premium on "bigness" rather than reputation or excellence. From Wordnik.com. [Amanda Marcotte, into the vortex.] Reference
When government bashers yell about "bigness," they may mean intrusiveness rather than size. From Wordnik.com. [Politics: Fable Vs. Fact] Reference
But what I noticed is that in order to communicate the "bigness" of the occasion they rented out Boston Garden and Fenway Park. From Wordnik.com. [Oliver Willis: Mitt Romney's Big Empty Room] Reference
(Wilson Pickett does a rousing, soulful take that manages to deflate the song's inherent "bigness" and sidestep all the pomposity.). From Wordnik.com. [Idol Season 9: Top 9 -- Casey James Back In The Hunt To Win] Reference
To some, bigness is in itself a crime. From Wordnik.com. [A Mid-Century Look Forward and Backward] Reference
Rather, the enemy for Pollan is a kind of "bigness". From Wordnik.com. [Bitch | Lab] Reference
It has, as Shamsul Anuar consciously said it - its 'bigness'. From Wordnik.com. [SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator] Reference
As with the appearance of "bigness," he perceived it first out of the corner of his eye. From Wordnik.com. [The Centaur] Reference
To dwell on the "bigness" theme, let's look a bit closer at New Oriental's second-quarter numbers. From Wordnik.com. [Chinalyst - China blogs in English] Reference
Hummer had a different problem with bigness than Toyota has. From Wordnik.com. [Too Big to Succeed] Reference
Today, we still worry about bigness, but not in the same way. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Sandel: Obama Must Assert Democratic Control Over Economic Forces] Reference
Americans admire beauty, but they are truly dazzled by bigness. From Wordnik.com. [Does the Future Belong to China?] Reference
"The bigness of Wal-Mart is a big subject," Lichtenstein notes. From Wordnik.com. [Wal-Mart Gives Banks A Run For Their Money] Reference
Channel VI like Viva, thinks MTV's bigness is its Achilles 'heel. From Wordnik.com. [Rock Around The World] Reference
If bigness was yesterday's corporate creed, today's is flexibility. From Wordnik.com. [Can Anyone Spare A Job?] Reference
That same overwhelming bigness of reality, same in life as in death. From Wordnik.com. [Reindeer Nights] Reference
But sometimes you forget the song and get so wrapped up in the bigness. From Wordnik.com. [Shelby Lynne Gives Dusty Her Due] Reference
Great schools of herrings come in first; shads of a great bigness and the rockfish follow them. From Wordnik.com. [The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia] Reference
He liked his bigness, and his honest youngness, and his clean-heartedness, written all over him. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference
I didn't have words to describe the giddy sense of bigness, of far awayness, that overwhelmed me. From Wordnik.com. [She Sank Into the Sand] Reference
This trend toward bigness -- in beef and chicken, for example -- has both an upside and a downside. From Wordnik.com. [E. Coli Alert] Reference
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