Really Great Quotes - Page 17

• Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man.

  Mark Twain

  Death, Men, Brave

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• I've had somebody on the end of the phone, maybe, but I haven't been living with anyone or been in a proper relationship, and it's been really great. And now I'm completely on my own. I think I've grown up a lot.

  Sienna Miller

  Single, Thinking, Phones

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• A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Success, Men, Compassion

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• Jesus must have been a really great artist in creating enemies because he was only thirty-three when he was crucified, and there were only three years of work because he appeared at the age of thirty. Up to that time he was with the mystery schools, going around the world to Egypt, to India, and the possibility is even to Tibet and to Japan.

  Rajneesh

  Jesus, School, Artist

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• Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Player, Games

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• The really great thing about cats is their endless variety. One can pick a cat to fit almost any kind of decor, income, personality, mood. But under the fur, there still lies, essentially unchanged, one of the world's free souls.

  Eric Gurney

  Lying, Cat, Personality

  Eric Gurney (2016). “How to Live With A Calculating Cat”, p.24, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.

  Larry Page

  Dream, Morning, Inspiration

  Larry Page’s University of Michigan Commencement Address, googlepress.blogspot.com. May 2, 2009.

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• There are a lot of people building small ideas now. There's an idealization of being an entrepreneur, but the most important thing is to have a really great idea.

  Dustin Moskovitz

  Ideas, People, Entrepreneur

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• I had a really great experience so far with film acting. And most experiences from most actors, I've heard, are not like this. But I want a career that has many disciplines and many options.

  Thomas Horn

  Careers, Discipline, Acting

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• Finding a calm place inside myself through meditation kind of helped me to get over a lot of mental illness ... it's just been a really great thing in my life.

  Roseanne Barr

  Meditation, Calm, Kind

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• It is well to start by distinguishing the few really great - the major novelists who count in the same way as the major poets, in the sense that they not only change the possibilities of the art for practitioners and readers, but that they are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.

  F. R. Leavis

  Art, Novelists, Way

  1948 The Great Tradition, ch.1.

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• When Arthur Ashe plays tennis, his purpose each day is to play the game in a way he has never played it before. It may be a backhand he uses, one that he may never have used before in that circumstance. His play is a fresh integration of his world at the instant of action. A really great scientist has the whole past at his disposal. At any instant he is rebuilding the world, molecule by molecule, in his subconscious. That is what you want in an athlete or a scientist.

  Edwin Land

  Athlete, Past, Games

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• Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Creative, Tools, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• You are different from the really great man in only one thing: The great man, at one time, also was a very little man, but he developed one important ability: he learned to see where he was small in his thinking, and actions. Under the pressure of some task which was dear to him he learned better and better to sense the threat that comes from his smallness and pettiness. The great man, then, knows when and in what he is a little man.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Men, Thinking, Important

  "Listen, Little Man!". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1948.

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• I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great scholar.

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Book, Way, Stealing

  Malcolm Bradbury (1978). “Eating people is wrong”, Vintage

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• My metaphor for acting in movies - not on stage because it's completely different on stage - is to put colors on an easel for the director to paint his own painting with in the editing room, long after I've left. You buy me for red and black, so I better give you really great red and black, but if I can give you purple, pink, green and brown too, I will.

  Scott Glenn

  Color, Purple, Editing

  Source: collider.com

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• I was doing all the coaching schools so that I'd be able to stay in the game, and I gave myself a chance by doing that. I was only an average player, could score a goal or two, that sort of thing, but I wasn't a Bobby Charlton or a Messi, or Ronaldo. There are very, very few really great players who have become great coaches.

  Alex Ferguson

  School, Player, Average

  "Fergie reveals all: Why I turned down Abramovich, Moyes IS the right man for United... and you'll be throwing your money down the drain betting on me coming back (I'll be at the Kentucky Derby!)". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.dailymail.co.uk. October 2, 2013.

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• Obviously no parent does everything right. It's this weird thing that happens where you are striving to be as good as you can be so that they turn out well. And that requires that you be a really great, evolved, aware person in every moment. Which is pretty awesome. But it's also putting tremendous pressure on yourself--which is why women feel so guilty!

  Jennifer Lopez

  Parent, Pressure, Doe

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• In a really great way, you simultaneously try to take up as little and as much space as possible.

  St. Vincent

  Space, Trying, Littles

  "Annie Clark of St. Vincent, Polyphonic Spree: Q&A". QRO Interview, www.qromag.com.

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• My father was a really great man. I'll never forget the last thing he ever said to me. Nor will I ever repeat it.

  John S. Hall

  Father, Men, Lasts

  "Song: 'My Father' ('The Psychopathology of Everyday Life')". 2003.

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• It is natural to admire and revere really great men. They hallow the nation to which they belong, and lift up not only all who live in their time, but those who live after them. Their great example becomes the common heritage of their race; and their great deeds and great thoughts are the most glorious legacies of mankind.

  Samuel Smiles

  Men, Race, Example

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.21

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• When you play a character that's someone real, when you're playing a true story, it's really great, 'cause you're not pretending to make up some silly thing.

  Michael Madsen

  Real, Silly, Character

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Looking back, I have to say that I've been fortunate to work with a lot of great people. Unfortunately, a lot of them are gone. But I look back and, yeah, I have had a really great career!

  John Kapelos

  Careers, People, Looks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The really great visual experience today is to fly over a huge city and look down into the night. It's like a tremendous jubilant Christmas tree. You just feel life is worth living when you come down you may have some doubts.

  Gyorgy Kepes

  Night, Cities, Tree

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• Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

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