How To Be Great Quotes

Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know.

A great teacher who is full of excitement and love for her students can make all the difference in their lives.

I love doing demonstrations. I think to be a great chef you have to be a great teacher. I love doing classes with people who love food and enjoy food, bringing them all around one table so to speak.

One killer exercise that's really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That's my favourite. It's such functional core strength, and that's why I can climb up trees and down vines.

Father's Day was great, but all the family gatherings brought up my mother's death. Maybe it's me, because I am a wimp. We would get together, but there was someone missing!

I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.

Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God.

Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.

In all seriousness, it really should be difficult for me to be too strange. After all, a great family raised me.

My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit.

Truly great architecture always transcends its stated function, sometimes in unanticipated ways.

When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.

I don't ever want to stop learning. And I really want to learn French fluently. It would be great to go and live in France.

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you've got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it's a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.

Great wine is always enhanced by great food.

I like a quiet evening with family or friends over, great food and great discussion and a lot of laughter. That's really what I think fills my tank.

The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.

The fundamentals that founded our great nation included the freedom of speech and religion.

The best way to be productive is to have a great team. So I spend more time than most CEOs on human resources. That's 20 percent of my week.

I want to deal with what's in front of me now to the best of my abilities, and sometimes that's not very good. But a lot of the days it is really great.

I'm going down in history with Star Trek. It's a great feeling.

I was an amazing bartender and a great waiter. I think, in a way, that was my acting school.

William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.

To me, when a great band is playing together, it's amazing for me.

As somebody who makes his living in the movie business and wants to contribute to it, I think that the best chance I have of doing that is just consistently working with great directors.

Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.

I got to experience a world championship with some great teammates.

Sydney's a beautiful city. It was a great experience.

Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience.

Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to do - unless we want to get more decrepit. I don't think we have to destroy the place totally.

It's great working with my sister, because we are very close as a family - my brother, my sister and myself. We have a great relationship.

I think that Scottish people, like Canadians, are often misunderstood and what I like about my Scottish friends and relatives is how quickly it can go from love to anger. It's a great dynamic.

The great marriages are partnerships. It can't be a great marriage without being a partnership.

The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies.

I figured out, I guess, that the job just makes me happy if it's not number one. So if it all works, great. If it doesn't, I still go home, look at my kids, and I have a big smile on my face.

I have never had a current state of mind. My mind changes a great deal. I am very affected by any sorrow or sad thing, and I am very affected by joy and beauty.

One could argue that it's romantic to die for love. Of course, then you're dead and unable to take that honeymoon trip to the Alps with all the other fashionable young couples, which is a shame.

I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are true.

The industry's changed so much that you can't just design something, put on a great show, and say, 'Okay, my job is done.'

It's always great to have things from France at a wedding. It's symbolic of style, of culture, of taste.

The great equalizer is health. If you don't have it, you're screwed.

Wouldn't it be great if the technology we used to take care of ourselves was as good as the technology we use to make money?

As a designer, design director or any creative person, you have to hire great people, support them and make them feel comfortable so they can contribute and give you their best.

I wish I had a great relationship with my mother.

I have a great pack of female friends, but I also have a lot of guy friends. I believe that platonic relationship is entirely possible.

You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university.

I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor.