Great opportunities can be and have been created during tough economic times.
‐‐ Howard Schultz
Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.
‐‐ Anna Magnani
Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great.
‐‐ Paul Arden
Great people have great values and great ethics.
‐‐ Jeffrey Gitomer
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
‐‐ Fran Lebowitz
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
‐‐ Victor Hugo
Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.
‐‐ Emile M. Cioran
Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself.
‐‐ Iris Apfel
Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.
‐‐ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Great poetry does not have to be technically intricate.
‐‐ James Fenton
Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.
‐‐ Stephen Spender
Great powers can't get tired, because the international order is not self-governing.
‐‐ Condoleezza Rice
Great powers reserve the right to police bad actors in their neighborhoods.
‐‐ Thomas P.M. Barnett
Great presidents, and even those not so great, never complained about the hands they were dealt. Just the opposite. They assumed they were in the big chair to meet big challenges, no matter how difficult.
‐‐ Mark McKinnon
Great presidents don't just fight good fights - they win them.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh
Great presidents take stands, and they fight off these people who really are so far to the right. I don't want to call them names, even though they would call me names.
‐‐ Helen Thomas
Great pressure is put on kids who don't have dads to get out and make money, and make life easier for everybody. It was always, 'Hurry up, grow up, make money, there's no man to do it for us.'
‐‐ Tracey Ullman
Great products sell themselves.
‐‐ Kevin Systrom
Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to an arbitration court, treaties which not only specify the composition of the court, but also its procedure.
‐‐ Ludwig Quidde
Great quarterbacks, good quarterbacks, make plays.
‐‐ Fran Tarkenton
Great questions make great reporting.
‐‐ Diane Sawyer
Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.
‐‐ Alan Dershowitz
Great rock n' roll comes from suburbia.
‐‐ Alvaro Enrigue
Great salespeople are relationship builders who provide value and help their customers win.
‐‐ Jeffrey Gitomer
Great sci-fi has never shied from tackling the Big Questions, though really great sci-fi never forgets to entertain us along the way. Shock and awe applies to art, as well.
‐‐ Rick Yancey
Great scientific contributions have been techniques.
‐‐ B. F. Skinner
Great sculptors and artists spend countless hours perfecting their talents. They don't pick up a chisel or a brush and palette, expecting immediate perfection. They understand that they will make many errors as they learn, but they start with the basics, the key fundamentals first.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin
Great sex is wonderful while it's happening, but who remembers great sex they had in 1983?
‐‐ Bob Seger
Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.
‐‐ Hector Hugh Munro
Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Great souls suffer in silence.
‐‐ Friedrich Schiller
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
‐‐ Albert Einstein
Great stories are still just great yarns. News remains the best human drama ever. Technology is not changing the story; it is just changing the way in which we deliver it.
‐‐ Andrew Ross Sorkin
Great storytellers in the past would go to an unknown land and return to tell the stories they've found. Those were also journeys into their inner psyches and that's still true today. An actor, a writer, does that as if saying, 'Here's what I've discovered about myself and about the world I'm in. I would like to share this with you.'
‐‐ Robert Davi
Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.
‐‐ Edward Carpenter
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
‐‐ Carl Jung
Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.
‐‐ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Great teachers should be rewarded.
‐‐ Matt Mead
Great teachers transcend ideology.
‐‐ Suzanne Fields
Great teaching - just plain old knock 'em dead, get it right, make 'em laugh, make 'em wonder instruction - is always going to be rare. Good teachers abound. Great ones are special.
‐‐ Robert Krulwich
Great theater continues to bind us, one to the other, and most of us will travel far and wide to see a good story told well.
‐‐ Kenny Leon
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
‐‐ Vincent Van Gogh
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
‐‐ Jack Kerouac
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
‐‐ George Eliot
Great things are won by great dangers.
‐‐ Herodotus
Great things come out of being hungry and cold. Once you're pampered, you get lazy.
‐‐ Rob Zombie
Great things happen only once.
‐‐ Peter Thiel
Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.
‐‐ Steve Jobs
Great things that can happen when you're doing a movie.
‐‐ James L. Brooks
Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe