Top 1200 Daring To Be Great Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I used to throw things out, saying, 'This isn't great.' It didn't occur to me that it didn't have to be great.

If you have a great business, if you're great at your craft people should be coming in there. It shouldn't be this secret.

A great pianist doesn't run around the piano or do push ups with his fingers. To be great, he plays the piano. ...being a footballer is not about running, push-ups or physical work generally. The best way to be a great footballer is to play.

A successful swindler has to be a great salesman even more than a great actor.

It's always great to visit Taranaki; it's beautiful, and I've caught some great waves there.

Great men are excellent topics of conversation, but the superior man, the superior men, the masters, the universal spirits on horseback, have to stop and search their memories merely to know who these so-called great men might be. And so the great man is left with the crowd, the worthless majority...for his admirers.

Great leaders are willing to retire unloved and unpopular as the price for great exertion.

I feel like, when you turn on the radio and you hear a great song, you know it's a great song, and you sing along. We all know what a great song sounds like, so we all have that instinct, it's just being able to accept your own instincts when you write that song.

It's a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve.

All great leaders choose great advisors, people they really trust for their governance.

The job at Everton was so good. I worked for a great chairman, great people at the club.

Every time an actress is celebrated for her great work, I cheer. For the more brilliant their performance, the more the audience demands stories about women... And as we all know: a great year for women in film, is just a great year for film.

Good is the enemy of great. And that's one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great.

The Lakers have been nothing but great to me, and I want to keep the relationship great.

great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.

Great musicians need great producers. The Beatles had George Martin.

David Silva is a great player, and also, off the pitch, he's a great lad.

Guys are great before you know who they are,' said Lucy. 'They're great when you're still with who they might be.

I think Jesse Eisenberg is such a great writer. He was a great director and really tough.

I call on those that call me son, Grandson, or great-grandson, On uncles, aunts, great-uncles or great-aunts, To judge what I have done. Have I, that put it into words, Spoilt what old loins have sent?

On the path of actions, great heart is the chief recommendation; on that works, a great head.

I've always had a middling kind of a career, not great highs and great lows.

I feel so fortunate to have great coaching. Coaches that have taught me great habits and taught me great things about basketball and life, but I've always played for coaches who have held me accountable and that's made me a better player and person.

I had a great year with Bob Mintzer [at Laguardia School of Arts]. Bob is great. We could have just brought the clarinet or dealt with classical stuff, or brought the flute or just dealt with comp and arranging... what a great teacher.

We love great melodies and great songs that have great hooks and melodies, so we start a little bit more on that side as opposed to other people that start more lyric-based. Sometimes we'll do it the other way.

I'm a big believer than a great bit is a great bit - if I go and see someone I love, like Robert Klein. I want to hear some classics and some new stuff. But a great stand-up bit takes a long time to really polish and perfect, and they're beautiful things when they're done.

The Worlds was great, Masters was great, but that was sort of mission accomplished with the Triple Crown.

The collision of a great man with a great idea strikes fire in dry flax.

Great stories don't often make great movies. Its' a crafted art form.

After a great game or a great practice, man, I feel on top of the world.

What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.

We need a great president who can lead us through the great challenges we face.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

Helping people getting a great start in life, a great foundation, is an investment.

Everyone wants to do what the great ones do; but very few are willing to do what they did to become great

It is a great opportunity and a great challenge to be a part of Indian team for the World Cup.

My driving force in this business is to create and build great men, and to do that, you have to have great relationships.

It's almost like a self-fulfilling prophecy: the great comedy that comes from great pain.

Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.

I've found that a lot of my male friends have great style and great appreciation for designers.

I've played with great players and worked with great managers; I've learned a lot from all of them.

Everybody knows that Jurgen Klopp is a great manager and a great guy as well.

It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.

In foreign affairs we must make up our minds that whether we wish it or not, we are a great people and must play a great part in the world. It is not open to us to choose whether we will play that great part or not.

Listen, I like great actors. You can be a movie star without being a great actor - this has been proved several times - and I like my casts to have great actors. Acting is more important to me than being a star.

I like Twitter more than Facebook. Twitter is a great way to deliver and get news. In news writing less is more and 140 characters is great. If you can't grab that headline in 140 characters than it's not a story. Viewers tweet all the time and they tell what stories they like and don't like. It's great to interact with them and get that instant feedback. It's great for the viewer and the journalist.

An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment...

I don't think we live in those times when great art comes out of great adversity.

What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Step with care and great tact. And remember life's a great balancing act.

I had some great players, great coaches, the best organization in football.

I've been very fortunate to be on some great teams and in great locker rooms.

If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.

Eternity shall be at once a great eye-opener and a great mouth-shutter.

I'm preparing myself to be a great, great fighter and also a big star in the sport.

Competitions are great. Unlike a lot of other creative industries they are a great way of climbing the ladder early on. If you win a comp you get on the big clubs' radar. Some people are not great at competitions, so it doesn't work out for everybody, but it is certainly a good way of getting seen by industry people.

The human being is an unequal creature. That is a fact. And we start off with the proposition. All the great religions, all the great movements, all the great political ideology, say let us make the human being as equal as possible. In fact, he is not equal, never will be.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

Well, great authors are great people - but I believe that they are best seen at a distance.

I always wish to find great virtues where there are great talents, and to love what I admire.