Top 1200 Great Minds Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Great readers, great listeners, and all have great work ethics. ... They work hard at what they do and they're devout to their reading and listening.

I just have a great life. I know great people. I've had great relationships - all different kinds of relationships. I am so lucky to be on the little golden path that led me to all this.

I'd do a demo recording by myself, layering instruments on top of one another, and while that's fun, it doesn't have the same impact as getting some great players together in a great studio with a great engineer and producer, then waiting for the magic.

We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation.

When you watch women who are a great mom, a great wife, and a great CEO, like, it's very inspiring. Like, being friends with Jessica Alba makes you work harder.

The early '90s was the best time for hip-hop. The Cube's, the Snoop's, the Dre's - that was a golden time with great music, great albums, great groups, everything.

Great stories start with great opening lines. 'I'm a lineman for the county' - what a great way to start a song.

Playing in the NHL, it's a great job, it's a great life to live, and we just want to have the opportunity to do that. That's going to come from our hard work and dedication to the sport. As far as being black players in the league, obviously it's great.

When educating the minds of our youth, we must not forget to educate their hearts.

O ye gods! what thick encircling darkness blinds the minds of men!

I've had a great time in Washington. I love the city. A lot of great times and a lot of great memories.

Its very important to me to be respected by true talented artists and great minds than by the masses who need to be told how to think. Its more important for me to do things that are spiritually rewarding because that wealth is what makes me feel alive. I do not touch projects that do not yield personal fulfillment, or put me in a field with talent that is over-measured. You wont find me where there is no Truth. And Im not one to jump on any bandwagons or join a gold rush without a purpose. Id rather create my own projects and grow my own fields.

Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility.

One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.

I'm really paying attention. People make up their minds late.

The Bible says "faith without works is nothing" so destiny is great, fate is great, faith is great - but you still have to work at it. I don't just sit at home and wait for it all to unfold.

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.

We are more apt to change our minds when right than wrong.

To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.

We all can think of at least one kid who had great parents, a great family, and an all-around great childhood...who suddenly went crazy as soon as he left the house for college or adulthood. And nobody can figure out how or why it happened!

Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy.

A film like 'The Sixth Sense' burns an image of who you are into people's minds.

A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great.

Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you.

You can have a great script, or a great director and a bad script, and get a great movie. Nothing really guarantees anything.

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.

To them belong, not only the truly great statesmen, but all other great reformers as well. Beside Frederick the Great stands Martin Luther as well as Richard Wagner.

There are certain functions that a writer has to do. In a time of crisis, it is great to have heroic poems, as it was in the Irish Revolution. It's great to have great songs, because people need something to sing when they are marching. That's OK, but it should be on the side. It's not the ultimate thing.

The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds.

I chose Spurs and I think it's turned out well. I felt I was joining a great team, with great plans and the personal chats I had with people at Spurs were great.

I'm very thankful to the Krafts for giving me the opportunity to be their head coach. I've had some great times and been involved with some great players and great people.

It's a sad comment on humans that none of them are tolerable to one who can read their minds

You have just taken an oath of allegiance to the United States. Of allegiance to whom? Of allegiance to no one, unless it be God. Certainly not of allegiance to those who temporarily represent this great government. You have taken an oath of allegiance to a great ideal, to a great body of principles, to a great hope of the human race.

I tell my kids all the time, 'I want you to be a great athlete, I want you to be great academically, I want you to achieve a lot of things, but mostly I want you to be a great person. If none of the other stuff happens and you're a great person, then I'm okay with anything else that happens in your life - that's the highest standard.'

Something really serious has shifted in the minds of Republicans and certainly others.

I just have a great life. I know great people. I've had great relationships - all different kinds of relationships.

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

When you get in some people minds, they won't think how they normally would.

Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all history. Sometimes I think in all departments, literature and art included, that will be the way our superiority will exhibit itself. We will not have great individuals or great leaders, but a great average bulk, unprecedentedly great.

Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds.

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You gain respect in your opponents' minds when you win a lot of matches.

I don't want to be a great executive without being a great mom and a great wife. I don't want to look back and say I wish I had done things differently.

He has done it. With Jesus, God’s rescue operation has been put into effect once and for all. A great door has swung open in the cosmos which can never again be shut. It’s the door to the prison where we’ve been kept chained up. We are offered freedom: freedom to experience God’s rescue for ourselves, to go through the open door and explore the new world to which we now have access. In listening to Jesus, we discover whose voice it is that has echoed around the hearts and minds of the human race all along.

All this green stuff is great, it's great we don't have plastic bottles or plastic bags and all of that, but how about some great schools?

A great director or leader knows his people, creates a great team, and then makes a great movie that can influence millions more than the readers of his column.

Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

Everybody must seem crazy if you see deep enough into their minds.

To be able to make a good living in a challenging medium like soap operas is great. The best is that I get to act and am rewarded for it. And the people I work with are great. Funny, intelligent, hard working. They're all great to be around.

Why do people do yoga? To clear their minds? I embrace the clutter in my head.

In reality, we can only talk about things that we already overcame in our minds.

Great Britain is not part of the euro-zone; but the decision we take will have great importance for Great Britain.

Great occasions rally great principles, and brace the mind to a lofty bearing, a bearing that is even above itself. But trials that make no occasion at all, leave it to show the goodness and beauty it has in its own disposition. And here precisely is the superhuman glory of Christ as a character, that He is just as perfect, exhibits just as great a spirit in little trials as in great ones.

The smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes.

Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.

If we are to be really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill.

I still ponder what gets in people's minds and souls, why they do the things they do.

The retired L.A.P.D. motor cops who work set security now, all wear the same uniform, they're great guys with great stories, and they're great at their job, providing security on sets.

[W]e are almost always in one place with our minds somewhere quite other.