Top 1200 Great Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting. It just seems like that element of trying to move forward while things are breaking down... Obviously, it's always been the backdrop for a lot of great literature and great cinematic characters, but aside from that, I'm just drawn to it because that feels honest to me.

We now think of internal representation as great big vectors, and we do not think of logic as the paradigm for how to get things to work. We just think you can have these great big neural nets that learn, and so, instead of programming, you are just going to get them to learn everything.

A great moment of clarity when I realized I'm dying. There's no reason to wait to do the things we want to do.

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

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.

Only two things can reveal life's great secrets: suffering and love.

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

Meaning makes a great many things endurable---per haps everything.

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

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

The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit. All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all things whatsoever.

One of the great rights as an American citizen is freedom of speech, one of the things that makes this country what it is.

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

My first degree was in mathematics. That was great, but it didn't help with many of the things that puzzled me. I became a philosopher because I wanted to understand everything, especially those things that didn't make sense. And that has continued to be my philosophical motivation. That's one reason I have such a roving philosophical eye - once I have figured out a philosophical topic to my satisfaction, I find myself moving on to new problems.

I haven't got ambitions. Actually, I'm determined not to die until I get very old. I want to be a great-great-great-grandmother.

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.

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

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.

I suppose every one must have reflected how primeval and how poetical are the things that one carries in one's pocket; the pocket-knife, for instance, the type of all human tools, the infant of the sword. Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about things in my pockets. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

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

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

What is the major problem? It is fundamentally the confusion between effectiveness and efficiency that stands between doing the right things and doing things right. There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.

Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This is a precious gift.

I'm not really great at writing things down unless for a roast or a particular event.

To achieve great things we must be self-confined...mastery is revealed in limitation.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

A lot of the new people they choose on shows like 'American Idol' and things like that - I don't ever hear lead singers. They always seem to choose to pick people that are great singers, fabulous singers, but they've never got the voice that makes a great lead singer.

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

I once heard a spiritual man say that he was not so much astonished at the things done by a soul in mortal sin as at the things not done by it. May God, in his mercy, deliver us from such great evil, for there is nothing in the whole of our lives that so thoroughly deserves to be called evil as this, since it brings endless and eternal evils in its train.

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

I love hands-on science and teaching the kids. I love to see kids experiment with things that they can make happen. Not just something you read the directions to and put it together that way. Things that can be constructed, something they can touch. What a great day when you can touch a child's mind with these ideas.

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

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

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

Great is God our Lord, great is His power and there is no end to His wisdom. Praise Him you heavens, glorify Him, sun and moon and you planets. For out of Him and through Him, and in Him are all things..... We know, oh, so little. To Him be the praise, the honor and the glory from eternity to eternity.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved. The soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of Divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for until the cord be broken, the bird cannot fly.

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

I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece.

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

I had my fortune told once at the Great Wall of China. A withered old lady told my fortune - but it was probably one of these things that are set up to rip off tourists. She told me a couple of vague things that came true, but she was probably just lucky. I would never do it again.

In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.

We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.

I try to look on all the great things God's done, and not focus on the negative. It's a perspective.

I can do contortionist things; it's really weird. But I can freak people out, which is great!

By people getting together and celebrating this idea of togetherness, great things can happen.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

It's always great to have things from France at a wedding. It's symbolic of style, of culture, of taste.

He does great things on the pitch but the coach Van Gaal was a bad man.

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.'

One of the great things about Silicon Valley is, irrespective of how competitive you might be with another company or how closely you might be working with that company, there's a great sort of give and take, and camaraderie from - between - some of the executives in the valley and some of the other investors in the valley.

You can start with a great director and great actors and have a great script - and it still just doesn't work. It's kind of a mystery how that happens.