Great leaders don't rush to blame. They instinctively look for solutions.
‐‐ Nina Easton
Great leaders have a heart for people. They take time for people. They view people as the bottom line, not as a tool to get to the bottom line.
‐‐ Pat Williams
Great leaders help their people see how they can directly impact the company's objectives and their own personal goals.
‐‐ Chip Conley
Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term.
‐‐ Reed Hastings
Great leaders state out loud what they intend to do and in doing so, they get things done.
‐‐ Simon Sinek
Great leaders understand that historical success tends to produce stable and inwardly focused organizations, and these outfits, in turn, reinforce a feeling of contentment with the status quo.
‐‐ John P. Kotter
Great leadership can be a difficult thing to pin down and understand. You know a great leader when you're working for one, but even they can have a hard time articulating what it is that makes their leadership so effective.
‐‐ Travis Bradberry
Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.
‐‐ Robert Benchley
Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
‐‐ A. E. Housman
Great lives never go out; they go on.
‐‐ Benjamin Harrison
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
‐‐ Honore de Balzac
Great love, like great genius, can never be a duty: both are life's gracious gifts to its elect.
‐‐ Ellen Key
Great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead.
‐‐ Helen Hunt Jackson
Great loves too must be endured.
‐‐ Coco Chanel
Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by claiming it as your own.
‐‐ Alan Cohen
Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.
‐‐ Steven Tyler
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
‐‐ Arthur Schopenhauer
Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.
‐‐ John Drinkwater
Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
‐‐ Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
‐‐ Charles Dickens
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.
‐‐ John Moody
Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.
‐‐ Sydney Smith
Great men marry great women.
‐‐ Ilyasah Shabazz
Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are.
‐‐ Oswald Mosley
Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great men show politeness in a particular way; a smile suffices to assure you that you are welcome, and keep about their avocations as if you were a member of the family.
‐‐ John James Audubon
Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau
Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
‐‐ Arthur Schopenhauer
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
‐‐ Eleanor Roosevelt
Great moments are born from great oppurtunities.
‐‐ Herb Brooks
Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.
‐‐ Gary Larson
Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy.
‐‐ Lukas Foss
Great music is great music. It doesn't matter what genre it belongs.
‐‐ Stjepan Hauser
Great music is great music, period.
‐‐ Ricky Skaggs
Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.
‐‐ Rebecca West
Great music is in the ear of the beholder.
‐‐ Noel Gallagher
Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.
‐‐ Cameron Crowe
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.
‐‐ Thomas Beecham
Great music seems to come from a lot of angst, and that angst is from great musicians getting together with intense chemistry. When that chemistry isn't there, people tend not to write great music.
‐‐ Peter Hook
Great music was written by the great geniuses, and you want to do it justice.
‐‐ Joshua Bell
Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like.
‐‐ John Zorn
Great musicians, you don't just hear them, you feel them. When I listen to Randy Rhoads, I feel every note. I learned a lot from him.
‐‐ Zakk Wylde
Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
‐‐ R. Buckminster Fuller
Great nations need organizing principles, and 'Don't do stupid stuff' is not an organizing principle.
‐‐ Hillary Clinton
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
‐‐ John Ruskin
Great necessities call out great virtues.
‐‐ Abigail Adams
Great numbers of Asian Americans do not fit the model minority or 'tiger family' stereotypes, living instead in multigenerational poverty far from the mainstream.
‐‐ Eric Liu
Great numbers of the Indians pass our camp on their hunting excursions: the day was clear and pleasant, but last night was very cold and there was a white frost.
‐‐ Meriwether Lewis
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become.
‐‐ Brooke Foss Westcott