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• Shannon and all of us started the band so it just felt really natural, and then she quit, and then she came back, and then she quit again. I love working with her and would do it again, but that's just not in the cards. And Josh is a great person to play with - he can play any instrument. He's really inspiring and positive. It was great. It was meant to be temporary.

  Theresa Wayman

  Play, Cards, Band

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• What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Leadership, Teamwork

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• Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Kindness, Able, Persons

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.335

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• If you are going through a time of discouragement, there is a time or great personal growth ahead.

  Oswald Chambers

  Challenges, Growth, Discouragement

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.593, Discovery House

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• The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Change, Smart, Blockheads

  "Cody Wilson Wants To Destroy Your World" by Andrew Zaleski, www.wired.com. March 11, 2015.

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• True greatness merely refuses to change in the face of bad actions against one—and a truly great person loves his fellows because he understands them.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Greatness, Faces, Action

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• No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

  William Hazlitt

  Modesty, Persons

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• I don't want to be remembered as a good goalkeeper. I want to be remembered as a great person.

  Iker Casillas

  Football, Want, Goalkeepers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To be a great leader, first become a great person.

  Robin Sharma

  Leader, Firsts, Persons

  Robin Sharma (2010). “The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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• A mediocre person tells. A good person explains. A superior person demonstrates. A great person inspires others to see for themselves.

  Harvey Mackay

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Every great person educates themselves.

  Nas

  Educate, Persons

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• The power of "can't": The word "can't" makes strong people weak, blinds people who can see, saddens happy people, turns brave people into cowards, robs a genius of their brilliance, causes rich people to think poorly, and limits the achievements of that great person living inside us all.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• It's very easy for me to feel sympathy for people who are messed up. It's not that I'm a pseudo-saint or a great person. I had a lot of trouble with drugs and alcohol when I was younger, and I know how easy it can be to mess up the rest of your life. One bad turn, one bad night, one big mistake, and everything is screwed up. Or maybe you were just born in the wrong house and raised in a bad way. I guess I can understand.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Mistake, Night, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A person of your century: Great persons are of their time. Not all were born into a period worthy of them, and many so born failed to benefit by it. Some merited a better century, for all that is good does not always triumph. Fashions have their periods and even the greatest virtues, their styles. But the philosopher, being ageless, has one advantage: Should this not prove the right century, many to follow will.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Fashion, Style, Triumph

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• She might be a great person, but life's so much bigger than just loving someone.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Loving Someone, Might, Bigger

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall”, p.182, Faber & Faber

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• Avery worries about her, too, so Lissa's in good hands. Avery's pretty amazing." I gave him a scathing look. "Amazing? Do you like her or something?" I hadn't forgotten Avery's comment about leaving the door unlocked for him. "Of course I like her. She's a great person." "No, I mean like. Not like." "Oh, I see," he said, rolling his eyes. "We're dealing with elementary school definitions of 'like'.

  Richelle Mead

  School, Mean, Eye

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• We live in a crazy time, and parents are very worried about their children's futures. They're getting all kinds of messages about children having to score at the top level on some test. The irony is, kids could score at the top and still not succeed at finding great employment or becoming a great person.

  Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

  Children, Crazy, Kids

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Recently I donated money to the establishment of the Muhammad Ali Foundation in Louisville. I regard that as a kind of payback. He smoothed the way for us. He wasn’t just a great person who had conviction, but made the sport of boxing great. He was the first superstar, he made our stock rise. Without him we wouldn’t have earned so much. Americans from every walk of life have contributed to the foundation: Bill Clinton, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt. Unfortunately I was the only American athlete to make a donation. There’s not enough respect in our business.

  Lennox Lewis

  Sports, Athlete, Boxing

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• You might be anything. You might be having any organization, you might be having any position in life, you might be any great personality, makes no difference to God. What is important is that: are you seeking?

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Greatness, Mind, Generations

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• A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Greatness, Small Person, Position

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• Good human relations not only bring great personal rewards but are essential to the success of any enterprise.

  J. R. D. Tata

  Essentials, Rewards, Relation

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• Very great personages are not likely to form very just estimates either of others or of themselves; their knowledge of themselves is obscured by the flattery of others; their knowledge of others is equally clouded by circumstances peculiar to themselves. For in the presence of the great, the modest are sure to suffer from too much diffidence, and the confident from too much display.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Character, Suffering, Peculiar

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.75

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• Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. The man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set. This is true of earthly as of heavenly things. Even the man whose object is to acquire wealth must be prepared to make great personal sacrifices before he can accomplish his object; and how much more so he who would realize a strong and well-poised life.

  James Allen

  Strong, Heart, Sacrifice

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• I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.

  Joe Murray

  Art, Personality, Pieces

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