How To Be Great Quotes

in this great war [WWI] ... they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. The freedom to think hopefully of the future.

Hiking is really great for centering; you get to be out in nature and although sometimes it seems like hell when you're getting up that mountain, it always feels good when you're done.

Do you remember any great poet that ever illustrated the higher fields of humanity that did not dignify the use of wine from Homer on down?

When this is over, I'm not going to be the same guy. I am going to live as if I were a great man.

Stumbling upon the next great invention in an 'ah-ha!' moment is a myth.

A single glance at the map will make the reader acquainted with the position of the eastern coast of the island of Great Britain, as connected with the shores of the opposite continent.

No great thing comes to any person unless that person has courage.

I am never disappointed in Jobe Watson ... (who) is a man of the highest integrity, highest character and a great person for our footy club ... I have no concern for Jobe.

It's great working with directors and with somebody else's vision.

When I hear [about a housing bubble] I get the sense that people aren't connecting the dots.

I don't worry about new home sales

Great things that can happen when you're doing a movie.

All great writers begin with a good leather binding and a respectable title.

I was lucky to have a great dad.

One of the great things about drama is that it makes you feel like you're not a crackpot, and that there are other people who think and feel the way you do.

Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.

I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.

Wall Street has come a long way from the insider-dominated world that was blown apart by the Great Depression.

We have great power to see the truth when the truth is all we wish to see; but what is easier than to credit what we desire? and can a man deceive anyone so easily as himself?

when a great war has cut off the young men of a nation it never can be told thereafter what losses of scholars, poets, thinkers and great designers the country and the world have suffered.

Meditation ... must be power of will and strength of attention, being like a flight to great heights wherein wings must be plied hard though joyfully.

I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work.

If you are looking for a lover, a job, a new house, or a serial killer, Snoop is for you. It’s great science and a fun read by a world-renowned personality researcher.

In a great play or a great film, there's a rehearsal period and they find this character. On TV, everything moves fast.

People tell us they have been inspired by our music to do great things.

Sometimes great things come from doing things quickly and not over-thinking stuff.

Great Art is collaborative but not democratic. It’s OK to be the boss

Lizzy Parks. Check this out, this is brilliantShe is a fantastic jazz singer definitely one to watch from now on, she’s got a great voice and she’s a great songwriter as well

People can rock together, people can do great things together, and that's what you love when you're working with characters and it's all going well.

The great unknown in this country is where this leaves the Republican Party after this election. Will it be the party of the Kochs or will it be the party of [Donald] Trump?

I love great music and if it doesn't move me I don't listen to it.

Gardeners in regions with very long summer days have a great opportunity, and should use more of the cool colors that literally glow in the low light of morning and evening.

From a distance I became more convinced than ever that Almighty God destined us to become a great people.

I thought it would be a great opportunity to work with someone that I really like and really respect as an artist [like Alessandro Michele].

The great thing about crummy software is the amount of employment it generates.

Of course I planned to write the Great American Novel; that lasted about a week, at which point I decided I had nothing to say that could possibly qualify. So I wrote a romance instead.

Average people push great people out of a company.

I'm much more a writer than an actor. Although I have a great respect for that and I enjoy acting still, it really is about the world that I'm creating. That's where my future is.

I had a good theater career for years. I played Hamlet when I was 22, and I've played some really great roles.

I'm not going to have a perfect career. It's better to be Billy Wilder and make lots of movies and have five or six great ones than to make so few movies that when you make a bad one it crushes you.

A woman in Great Britain has died after being hit in the back of the head by a golf ball, on the first hole. Her husband was so distraught, he only played the front nine.

Great minds sink alike, right?

A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors.

This great American institution [Boy Scouts of America] has come under attack from homosexual activists-who may well set their sights on your church next.

People say, 'Jay, you're a great guy, you just had a couple of bad nights.' People that have themselves under control don't have a couple of bad nights like that. Plain and simple.

Rolling all of your debts into a single loan is a good idea - in theory. In fact, it can be a great idea.

Eminent station makes great men more great, and little ones less.

There are three great events in our lives: birth, life and death. Of birth we have no conscience; with death, we suffer; and, concerning life, we forget to live it.

The great men of antiquity were poor.

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