Top 1200 Great Wisdom Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity. The wits of these happy days have discovered a way to fame, which the dull caution of our laborious ancestors durst never attempt; they cut the knots of sophistry, which it was formerly the business of years to untie, solve difficulties by sudden irradiations of intelligence, and comprehend long processes of argument by immediate intuition.

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

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.

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

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.

Wembley is a ground with great history. It's hosted games and players of great prestige. It's always important playing on great stages like this.

It is clear that there must be difficulties for us in a revelation such as the Bible. If someone were to hand me a book that was as simple to me as the multiplication table and say, “This is the Word of God; in it He has revealed His whole will and wisdom,” I would shake my head and say, “I cannot believe it; that is too easy to be a perfect revelation of infinite wisdom.” There must be, in any complete revelation of God's mind and will and character and being, things hard for the beginner to understand; and the wisest and best of us are but beginners.

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

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.

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

I still hold myself and my marriage up very high. I look upon it with great pride, great honor and great memories. I have no regrets.

The voice of wisdom is inherent within us and willing to guide us when we stop to listen. Of course, there are times when we feel we've been still as stone, and the still, small voice is still too quiet to hear. When this happens, the challenge is to practice quieting your mind anyway. Stopping and asking, quieting and listening, trusting and waiting. Waiting is difficult but worth the effort because a quiet, uncluttered mind is a natural antenna for whispers of wisdom from within.

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

There was a great ensemble in 'The Great Fire,' and it was great not having the same parade of actors.

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 think too many people presume to read the divine Scriptures and fall into such terrors as this,' said Patricius sternly. 'Those who presume on their learning will learn, I trust, to listen to their priests for the true interpretations.' The Merlin smiled gently. 'I cannot join you in that wish, brother. I am dedicated to the belief that it is God's will that all men should strive for wisdom in themselves, not look to it from some other. Babes, perhaps, must have their food chewed for them by a nurse, but men may drink and eat of wisdom for themselves.

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

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

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

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

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

Sister Eliza R. Snow was given a charge from the prophet Brigham Young to help lift and teach the sisters of the Church. She “taught that individual women could receive inspiration to guide them in their personal lives, their families, and their Church responsibilities. She said: ‘Tell the sisters to go forth and discharge their duties, in humility and faithfulness and the Spirit of God will rest upon them and they will be blest in their labors. Let them seek for wisdom instead of power and they will have all the power they have wisdom to exercise.’

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.

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

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

Although the sovereignty of God is universal and absolute, it is not the sovereignty of blind power. It is coupled with infinite wisdom, holiness and love. And this doctrine, when properly understood, is a most comforting and reassuring one. Who would not prefer to have his affairs in the hands of a God of infinite power, wisdom, holiness and love, rather than to have them left to fate, or chance, or irrevocable natural law, or to short-sighted and perverted self? Those who reject God's sovereignty should consider what alternatives they have left.

We need to have far less confidence in what man can do and far more confidence in what God can do for every believing soul. He longs to have you reach after Him by faith. He longs to have you expect great things from Him. He longs to give you understanding in temporal as well as in spiritual matters. He can sharpen the intellect. He can give tact and skill. Put your talents into the work, ask God for wisdom, and it will be given you.

We needed to have a great set decorator, a great D.P., a great costume designer, everybody. Without all these people, we would have made a shitty movie.

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

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.'

Within each experience of pain or negativity is the opportunity to challenge the perception that lies behind it, the fear that lies behind it, and choose to learn with wisdom. The fear will not vanish immediately, but it will disintegrate as you work with courage. When fear ceases to scare you, it cannot stay. When you choose to learn through wisdom, to evolve consciously, your fears surface one at a time in order for you to exorcise them with inner faith. This is how it happens. You exorcise your own demons.

That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.

Carrying a movie is both a great privilege, it's a great opportunity, but it can be a great pressure, and sometimes that can make people behave very oddly.

There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.

If we only have great companies, we will merely have a prosperous society, not a great one. Economic growth and power are the means, not the definition, of a great nation.

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

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.

We are to take no counsel with flesh and blood; give ear to no vain cavils, vain sorrows and wishes; to know that we know nothing, that the worst and cruelest to our eyes is not what it seems, that we have to receive whatsoever befalls us as sent from God above, and say, "It is good and wise,--God is great! Though He slay me, yet I trust in Him." Islam means, in its way, denial of self. This is yet the highest wisdom that heaven has revealed to our earth.

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

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.

Let the Spirit be lacking, and there may be wisdom of words, but not the wisdom of God; the powers of oratory, but not the power of God; the demonstration of argument and the logic of the schools, but not the demonstration of the Holy Spirit, the all-convincing logic of His lightning flash, such as convinced Saul before the Damascus gate. When the Spirit was outpoured the disciples were all filled with power from on high, the most unlettered tongue could silence gainsayers, and with its new fire burn its way through obstacles as flames fanned by mighty winds sweep through forests.

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.

Charity is the pure love of Christ. Let's bring it down for us lay folk to understand. Selflessness, patience. . . . a great definition. . . Charity: The ability to love the sinner and hate the sin. Note: For Hyrum Smith's other ideas which he regards as pertinent to Success, see Topics: Character, Charity, Goals, Humility, Peace of Mind, Sacrifice, Success-Change-Personal Growth, Success-Change-Constructive Imagination, Wisdom

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.

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

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

I've been so fortunate in life to have worked for such great organizations, with great owners and general managers and all the great players, along with the support of my family.

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

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.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

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

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.