Sentences with phrase «a grand vision»

For now, MacMillan seems to be enjoying his second lease on professional life: he may be pursuing a grand vision of the future of digital media, but he doesn't act like a guy in a hurry.

It's an approach built on not a grand vision for the future of music but a deep understanding of industry dynamics and of how to exploit them profitably.

Looking back at his previous ventures, Surace explains that each had a grand vision.

«There have been exits on a smaller scale in the past, but we have grand visions,» says Kevin Yen, one of the event's organizers.

«Erich has a grand vision,» Karypis said.

Most of what gets us to that grand vision is ordinary work.

Being an entrepreneur means having a dream, a grand vision about what must be changed in the world to make it better.

He believes that small ideas are almost always better than grand visions.

Heraud has a grand vision for Blue River Technology, which raised a $ 17 million Series B in December 2015, primarily from agriculture - focused investors.

While some do have grand delusions that they're destined for greatness — a prophecy that's often self - fulfilling, interestingly enough — for the most part, they generally don't have grand visions for their companies.

For all the grand visions of men on Mars, SpaceX's pitch is straightforward: The company says it will send your satellite into orbit for as little as a quarter of the going rate.

We certainly can't expect it from our governments; despite our nostalgia for grand visions like universal health care or landing on the moon, they have become the road to political suicide today.

To put your team in a position to achieve your grand visions, you must start by creating a culture of winning.

When we do go into those details — why did you this, how did you do this — they have to be able to provide more than just a grand vision.»

Steve Jobs initially had grand visions for iAd, but the platform hasn't been one of Apple's smash successes.

Self - transcendence comes from collaborating with others who are driven by a greater and grander vision.

At least one pair of thinkers has recently offered a 25 - to 50 - year, future - shock outlook that could get anybody's juices flowing, provided only that the would - be company builders can figure out how to translate a grand vision of economic change into down - to - earth business opportunities.

LinkedIn's grand vision is the creation of a map based on its user activity that surveys every economic opportunity in the world.

The challenge is to create a grand vision for how to put these datasets together and use them in new ways, as Amazon has done.

So in the case of Cohen, he would be credited as the master creator, and his disciple - robot merely carrying out his grand vision.

More than just an accounting program, it's an integral part of the company's grand vision of enterprisewide information management that will get reinforced with the year - end release of Office 12.

But Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of non-profit One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) in Cambridge, Mass., has always had a grander vision.

Four months ago, the company put out an emotive online video ad, which indicates this «grand vision» to disrupt the mobile payment space, but no details on how.

Composed of over 25 prominent members in the payments space — including the likes of ACH, NACHA, and SWIFT — the IPFA promotes a grand vision for creating a global payments framework that facilitates interoperability and efficient cross-border payment processing.

Corruption, damage to the local environment, and cultural and political insensitiveness are all the potential risks that would undermine China's efforts to push out the grand vision that pledges to be implemented based on mutual respects and mutual cooperation.

There is no doubt in my mind that their pro-entrepreneur philosophy is part of a grander vision.

I look forward to engaging with the team and helping to support our grand vision of enabling an Internet of Value.»

Many new business owners have a grand vision for their ventures and see the goal without focusing on the steps needed to «get to success.»

Telegram's grand vision is to build the TON (Telegram Open Network), a blockchain - based platform that extends its messaging app, which counts 200 million active users, into a range of services that include payments, file storage, censorship - proof browsing and decentralized apps hosted on the platform.

They get the sense that the pastor is using them to accomplish his / her grand vision.

(Indeed, fascinating histories might be written of major changes in the identities of both denominational and university - related theological schools that came about over the past thirty years not by grand vision and masterful decision but through the accumulated impact of individual decisions about particular proposed courses, programs for this and centers for that.)

So it's not a place to feel guilt for not achieving that grand vision.

If man is to have any hope which may be said to partake of the quality of eternity, it must be one which can be related to the much grander vision of God's purpose for his universe as a whole.

This grand vision in turn required not only that Whitehead's original line of thought, unredacted by Hartshorne, Christian, Leclerc and Cobb, be recovered (a task Lewis shared with Jorge Nobo), but also that the problems that Whitehead faced, as Whitehead envisioned them, and his various attempts at solution (ending presumably in the views published and taken by most of us as the last word on the subject) be likewise exposed and rethought.

The Book of Ruth suggests less an outward evangelistic thrust than a quiet and loving ingathering, exhibiting at a personal level the later grand vision of Isaiah, that in «the latter days... many peoples shall come... that [God] may teach [them] his ways» (Isa.

They started small and modest, but the more they dreamed, the grander their vision became.

We don't threaten or bribe people into the Kingdom of God, but simply lay a grand vision for what life could be like with Jesus.

They were both befuddled and angered by Jesus» relative freedom, by his morality rooted in a grand vision of the respect for personhood and the abundant grace of God, who loves us like a doting parent.

In Bush at War, Bob Woodward observed that «the president was casting his vision and that of the country in the grand vision of God's master plan.»

Simply lay out the grand vision of what life is like when we live it God's way.

I had grand visions of being so prepared this year that I would have everything made and in the freezer by now but my Rosh Hashanah cooking is currently on hold until after my son's birthday party this weekend.

Simon Fuller, Beckham's manager and the chiefexecutive of London - based 19 ¬ † Entertainment, acknowledges that makingsoccer really matter in the U.S. will be a «far greater» challenge thanturning Idol into this country's most popular television program, but thathasn't stopped Fuller from hatching «a grand vision» (his words) forthe next chapter of his most famous client's career.

Adulation has come at last to Detroit's Thomas Hearns, and if his grandest visions of glory become reality, that will be bad news for Ray Leonard

Though she claims to have never played competitive basketball — or any sports beyond body building — when it comes to business endeavors and grand visions, Teresa Banks certainly subscribes to the theory of, «Go big, or go home.»

Thank you so much for your grand vision; I am inspired.

I might have had grander visions than our reality could fulfill, and at the same time, I never would have imagined we could do some of the things we have done.

But Cuomo has not laid out any grand vision for a second term.

Some critics on his own side accuse him of lacking a grand vision, a bigger plan.

Lord Wood spoke about the various crises at the heart of the EU, whose current focus is the survival of the Euro rather than planning implementation of a further grand vision.

When presented alongside the opposition's another national policies - restoring the 50 % top rate of tax, introducing a # 2 million mansion tax - Miliband is presenting himself as a man with a grand vision of society, barely bothered with the nitty - gritty of the actual contests on the ground in 2013.