A visualisation is a better description than a verbal description.

One should not interfere with promising developments in their early stages.

A century egg (Chinese egg dish)

plural of thousand-year-old egg

(Britain, Ireland, sarcastic) Used to indicate that the speaker does not put faith in something they have just heard.

(dated, US) Synonym of million-dollar question

plural of sixty-four thousand dollar question

Even the longest and most difficult ventures have a starting point.

The cardinal number occurring after nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight and before ten thousand, represented in Arabic numerals as 9,999. Represented in Roman numerals as IXCMXCIX.

The ordinal numeral form of one thousand; last in order of a series of a thousand; next after the nine hundred and ninety-ninth.