Top 1200 Great Speakers Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

Nothing great was ever achieved without great work and great effort. It's really that simple.

I just want the opportunity to continue to do great films, play great characters and work with great people.

If to be great means to be good, then Denis Diderot was a little man. But if to be great means to do great things in the teeth of great obstacles, then none can refuse him a place in the temple of the Immortals.

Don Cooper is an incredible person. He's not only a great pitching coach, but he's a great human being and a great friend.

You can wear ruffles; you can be a jock, and you can still be a great computer scientist, or a great technologist, or a great product designer.

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.

I'm not a great dancer. I'm a great advertisement for freedom of expression. I don't care what you think. I'm having a great time.

The great saints were always great innovators... They had to be very strong people... principled people. And, apart from their principles, with great tenacity they had to have great reserves of patience.

I feel like the older I get, the truer it feels that I'm only going have an investment in a poem if it allows or forces me to bring something that's supremely me onto the page. I used to think that the speaker of a poem was talking to someone else, to some ideal reader or listener, but now I think that speakers - poets - are talking to themselves. The poem allows you to pose questions that you have you ask of yourself knowing that they are unanswerable.

Manchester United are a great club, and being associated with them is a great compliment for me, but Atletico are also great.

Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them

A great solo does not make a great piece. Rather, a great solo in a great song - that's what makes a 10 out of 10. It's the combination of emotional feel and inventive ideas.

It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies.

The greatest compliment to any player is he is a great teammate. We can't all be great players, but we can all be great teammates

Every Great Story deserves a Great Ending and 'The Dark Knight Rises' is our Attempt to give that GREAT story, a GREAT ENDING.

Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.

Flip Saunders is a great coach and a great guy. Glen Taylor is the same way. He's a great human being.

I always go for just really, hopefully, great writing and great acting, being in the company of great actors.

I got to work for some great administrators at great institutions, and I had an opportunity to coach great players. Iowa is no different.

To have a great player like Neymar at PSG would be a great honour. He's a phenomenal player, and to have great player is a great thing for the team.

Great direction, great acting partner, great character backstory - these are all rare luxuries to have in the room.

That's where everything starts, as an actor: you've gotta have great writing and great character development, and then you have really great materials to work from.

At the end of the day, all people want to do is hear a great singer sing a great song. They don't care about what vocal changes it went through. You can't screw up a great song and a great singer.

America already holds the record for freak movements. Now we have a new one. It's called "Restoring Confidence." Rich men who never had a mission in life outside of watching a stock ticker are working day and night "restoring confidence." Writers are working night shifts, speakers' tables are littered up, ministers are preaching statistics, all on "restoring confidence."

My great joy is to give form to reality. Music is a great release, a great enjoyment to me. Eventually I'd like to write something of great importance. That's my ambition - to write something worthwhile.

For me any moment in front of a crowd is embarrassing, because I can't stand being in front of people. I'm probably one of the worst public speakers. I try to avoid it, but there are times when it's just too rude not to do it. But there really isn't a moment that's not embarrassing for me if I'm going to stand up in front of a crowd.

I think of myself as someone who's trying to be a great songwriter and a great performer. And I mean really great.

When we turn around & come face to face with our destiny, we discover that words (spoken) are not enough. I know so many people who are brilliant speakers but are quite incapable of practising what they preach. It's one thing to describe a situation & quite another to experience it. I realised a long time ago that a warrior in search of his dream must take his inspiration from what he actually does & not from what he imagines himself doing.

we have not been impressed with any attribute of the Senate other than its appearance and manners. We have heard the best speakers: they all fire off speeches which deal with the entire subject in general terms and which do not attempt to debate, to answer opponents' arguments or offer new points for discussion. And the speeches are constantly degenerating into empty rhetoric; they abound in quotations from well-known authors or from their own former speeches.

Being successful doesn’t necessarily make you great. What makes you great is when you reach back and help somebody else become great.

We have to start encouraging women to get into math and science early on in life... But to just say TechCrunch is perpetuating the problem because there aren't enough women speakers at our events is just a way to get attention and not solve the problem. So do we want to solve the problem, or do we want to just pick on me?

There is great wisdom, there's great strength and there's great beauty in all of our religion, and those should be marshaled for good.

I have a great band from Jersey and New York. I say that because they got great attitude, and we have a great time on stage.

I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.

There are certain relationships I think I'm great at: I'm the world's greatest daughter. I'm a great relative. I believe I'm a great friend.

As corny as it sounds, I'm often pinching myself going, 'What great opportunities and great parts and great people that I've gotten to work with.

Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

My grandparents were from Kentucky - I'm related to Daniel Boone. He was my great-great-great uncle.

A tremendous chief executive in a small market will never be great. All great companies start with great markets.

The French have never produced a great philosopher. Great wine maybe, but no great philosophers.

As corny as it sounds, I'm often pinching myself going, 'What great opportunities and great parts and great people that I've gotten to work with.'

When Roman Polanski did give you a "Great, great, great!" you were just like, "Thank you, Lord, for this magical moment."

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.

I think 2014 for me is going to give me the possibility to do even bigger things than anyone has done. I want to change the party scene - like, stop just being a DJ with lights, a big LED screen, and oh-look-at-me speakers. There's way more to a party, and I think everyone knows it. I want to make it special.

When a new record came out, the world would stop that day, and we would sit in somebody's house - whoever had the best stereo system - and sit in the middle of the two speakers and listen and discuss and listen again and go over the album notes and get out the guitar and start playing it and discuss and play some more.

America became great through immigrants... I hope that this great country will recall what has made it great.

I've been given the tools necessary to be a great musician, a great entertainer, and great person that's gonna inspire everyone.

It was tough leaving Boston with a great city, a great organization and a great bunch of guys.

To stay in one time zone and play in a great conference - a great all-around conference, but, specifically, a great basketball conference - is a great thing.

I had great teachers, great ensembles, and great companies to work with who supported my career.

I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn't spring full-bloom from my brow - they came from the heart of a great nation.

My great-great-great uncle - or maybe it's only two 'greats' - crossbred the first Aberdeen Angus.

On what high-performing companies should be striving to create: A great place for great people to do great work.

I don't want to be a great chief executive without being a great mum and a great wife.

Our being edified at conference depends on us. It becomes necessary that we prepare our hearts to receive and profit by the suggestions that may be made by the speakers during the progress of the conference, which may be prompted by the Spirit of the Lord. I have thought, and still think, that our being edified does not so much depend upon the speaker as upon ourselves.

I'm not a great manager; I try to be a great leader. And for me, that's been going through a process of not how to be a great CEO but how to be a great Evan, and that's really been the challenge.

It's great to see wrestling expand and get the attention it deserves. It's such a great, great sport.

No matter what your background or where you are from, the one thing we can all respect is when great athletes and great passion leads to great achievements.

Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.