Top 1200 Accomplishing Great Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.

One of the great things about music is how it can take you places.

It is a very positive event, being nervous. It allows you to do great things.

Things should all be moving toward the expression of a great idea.

It's so great that women are being allowed to be heroes in big things.

In order to do great things, it is necessary to live as if one was never to die.

Every moment of our life can be the beginning of great things.

Isn't it great when you're a kid and the world is full of anonymous things? Everything is bright and mysterious until you know what it is called and then all the light goes out of it...Once we knew the name of it, how could we ever come to love it?...For things had true natures, and they hid behind false names, beneath the skin we gave them.

You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is.

UPS stands as an example of a company thats already doing great things.

Acting can be a great job, but you do have to make up things to do when you're not working.

Sometimes you have to take a risk if you want great things to happen.

Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more and more every day: an infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all the truly great men. It is sure to involve a relative intensity of disdain towards base things, and an appearance of sternness and arrogance in the eyes of all hard, stupid, and vulgar people

I think of myself as quite a confused kind of person, because I think there's so many great things about the world, but there are so many awful things too. I feel very guilty a lot of the time about enjoying my life so much when there are people living in such misery.

In a great nation, the majority are incapable of judging wisely of things.

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Years ago, while I was watching a baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Texas Rangers, I remember staring in awe at Cal Ripken. I realized during this game that 'you don't have to be flashy' or have 'power numbers' to be great. It's about the simple things that are the hard things. It's about leadership, work ethic and commitment.

A lot of times it's the child that sees something and not the grownup. I love that because, when readers get older, they start looking for the most important ideas in the story. They don't look at things in the same way anymore. Children haven't really learned to do that yet. They take all their great, intellectual skills, look at the full page, and appreciate all of the different things.

Making people believe they can do great things, that's an instant motivator.

Could we but think with the intensity we love with, we might do great things.

Collaborating with the musical genius of our time in some ways with Prince himself - late, great Gerald Levert,all these are forms of singing education, what the Greeks call paideia,that deep education to get us to shift from superficial things to serious things, to shift from bling-bling to life and death to justice and pain and joy, those fundamental, elemental things that we must come to terms with as we make our moves from our mother's womb to the tomb.

He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.

If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.

I think that good, great things can come at every price.

Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.

When they mention great little things in life, they usually forget flossing.

How are you going to do great things if you are not committed to your work.

I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.

People should think about their closets like they think about a stock portfolio. There are things you want to invest in; you make those investments, and those are your blue chips. So you should invest in a great pair of jeans, in a great cashmere sweater.

Luis Enrique and his coaching staff can do great things.

Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.

Laughter kills lonesome. It's one of the great things in our lives.

Mike and Harvey finally consummate things, a great cliffhanger

When you have a great idea, and don't rush it, things can work itself out.

What I believe in and the way I work with my clients is we're so quick to say what we don't like about our bodies, but it's really important to say the things we do like about our bodies. If you know you have great legs or a great butt, or if you're curvy, show it off if you're proud of it.

With the right people, culture, and values, you can accomplish great things.

Life isn't always great, but it's all about how we react to things.

Many people are very intelligent in accomplishing worldly attainments. This intelligence is not wisdom because worldly attainments such as a high position, reputation, wealth and success in business are deceptive. If we die tomorrow they will disappear tomorrow, and nothing will be left for our future. Wisdom, however, will never deceive us.

The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for.

We are a band that stylistically crosses a lot of barriers and generational gaps. The heavier portion of the band, the modern music elements, the visual part of the band appeal to a younger audience. For an older audience, we have chops and great songs that are reminiscent of the things that were great about rock and roll when they enjoyed it. We're the kind of band that can cross those lines.

You know, I think that President Obama is a person who has a great relationship with a number of people. Colin Powell does, too. I think Colin Powell is a fine American, a great leader and sees things in President Obama that he agrees with. He's entitled to have his opinion.

I use Amy as a major sounding board for a lot of things that come up, and she understands the family dynamic and business dynamics better than people would think. She is a big support and voice of calm when things are a little bit dicey, like great wives can be. She does all of that.

Great success breeds a lot of things, including sequels.

I have been called a great many things in my time – that's politics.

Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.

Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.

A nation is a body of people who have done great things together.

Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it. The great general is only terrible to the enemy; the great poet is frequently scolded by his wife; the children of the great statesman clamber about his knees with perfect trust and impunity; the great actor who is called before the curtain by admiring audiences is often waylaid at the stage door by his creditors.

One of the things that made American Pie great was also the sexiness of it.

I think the key to great art and great artists is to just fully be yourself and not be scared of that, and be the extremes of your personality. Show the extremes of your personality and embrace the imperfections. Embrace the things about yourself that you might not like.

My favorite foods are things that aren't great to eat, like pizza.

One of the great things about New York is this wonderful park we have.

We're all not going to agree on the same things, but that's what makes this country so great.

I have known a great many politicians who have not managed to stay in power for 16 years. I have nevertheless already managed to remain at the helm for 18 years. I still want to achieve a great many things for my country. Experience is not a disadvantage here, especially as the head of government of a small country in a European setting that has become more difficult.

One of the things I love doing is putting great people together.

There are so many things going on this week, ... It's great for Virginia Tech.

Charles Laughton, who's a great hero of mine, only ever made one film and it happens to be one of the great films ever, which is 'The Night of the Hunter.' It's full of his kind of imagination and creation and how you do things and just in the way he used the studio, I just thought it was a fantastical way of using the studio.

I got thrust into some great things when I was really young.

Let me tell you about weakness! Killing the strong to prove your strength is foolish weakness. Killing fools is easy weakness. Killing the weak is evil weakness. Accomplishing your ends without killing, mastering your mind when you want to kill--that is strength!