Really Great Quotes - Page 5

• Really great people rarely leave a healthy organization.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Organization, People, Healthy

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• I think most of the work of songwriting is thinking of great phrases - I'm addicted, always on the hunt for a really great phrase.

  Ezra Furman

  Thinking, Phrases, Songwriting

  "Playground for the Perplexed". Interview with J.L. Sirisuk, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 5, 2015.

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• When you start looking at a problem and it seems really simple, you don't really understand the complexity of the problem. Then you get into the problem, and you see that it's really complicated, and you come up with all these convoluted solutions. That's sort of the middle, and that's where most people stop... But the really great person will keep on going and find the key, the underlying principle of the problem - and come up with an elegant, really beautiful solution that works.

  Steve Jobs

  Beautiful, Simple, Keys

  "Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that Changed Everything". Book by Steven Levy, www.businessinsider.com. June 1, 2000.

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• I listen to my records and I think, 'Wow,
  these are really great appetizers. I haven't
  even considered what I'm going to order
  for the full entree meal yet.'

  Alanis Morissette

  Thinking, Order, Wow

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• The two basic maxims of the so-called historical criticism are the postulate of the common and the axiom of the ordinary. Postulate of the common: everything really great, good, and beautiful, is improbable, since it is extraordinary and therefore at least suspect. Axiom of the ordinary: our conditions and environment must have existed everywhere, for they are really so natural.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Beautiful, Two, History

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• I found a new me. When I first came over to America, it was like, 'How can I be rich? How can I build my movie career? How can I become the most muscular man?' It was all about me, and then there was this turn, and I found it was really great to do this.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Men, Careers, America

  Cowboys & Indians magazine, September 2004.

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• Being scared is really a good thing. It's being scared of being scared that's bad. Being scared of walking through your fear, going to a place of true creativity - that's what an artist is, that's what he does. If you do that, then being inspired by your contemporaries or people from the past is really great.

  Lawrence Bender

  Creativity, Artist, Past

  "On a Bender". Interview with Stephen Rebello, movieline.com. March 1, 1998.

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• I'm a strong believer that you have to have an equal opportunity to fail and to try things that are hard. I always tell my students, "Don't just take things that are easy for you. If you're really good at math, don't take just math. Take classes that make you write. If you're a really great writer, but bad at math, take math and make yourself work your way through it."

  Condoleezza Rice

  Strong, Writing, Math

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• All the children of America, up to age seven or eight or nine or ten - they're really great artists. So here we've got this amazing work that very few people pay any attention to, and it's not valued by the culture.

  Chris Martin

  Children, Artist, America

  Interview with Ross Simonini, www.believermag.com. November 2013.

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• When people are really great at what they do there is no aggression because they are comfortable in their own skin. They know themselves well enough that you don't have anything to prove.

  Joel Edgerton

  People, Skins, Enough

  "Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton Talk WARRIOR, THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, GREAT GATSBY and MAD MAX: FURY ROAD". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. September 7, 2011.

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• I think when the joke comes from the situation in a horror film, it's really great. I don't like jokey horror films like where people are cracking a joke or being post-modern about it.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Thinking, People, Horror

  Source: collider.com

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• Every so often you get to play wonderful characters maybe at the wrong time in your life. Sometimes, you get to play terrible characters at a really great time in your life. Sometimes, the right character comes along at the right time.

  Jude Law

  Character, Play, Sometimes

  "Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law On Set Interview SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. November 14, 2011.

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• One of my earliest memories is being backstage at Bran Nue Dae in Darwin when I was about eight. Its such a fun, happy show and a real celebration of being Aboriginal... it felt really great and achievable as a career. It all felt normal.

  Shari Sebbens

  Fun, Memories, Real

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• I think there's a really great amount of potential for Hawaii to become an example of what's possible with renewable energy because there are so many renewable resources here: energy, solar energy, and wind energy. There's so much potential here.

  Jack Johnson

  Thinking, Wind, Energy

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• Social media is really the heart of keeping in touch with your fans. I love it. You can try out new music on your fans, get immediate responses, spread the word about anything. It's really great. To reach me is to tweet me.

  Ty Stone

  Heart, Trying, Social Media

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• When art is really great, it's really powerful, can really do something to you, make you feel more alive and make you feel more connected to something. If you don't feel like that when you do it, and you just make a movie to make money, that would be pretty boring to me. I just wouldn't do it. That would be like sitting in an office, which I don't want to do.

  Julian Schnabel

  Art, Powerful, Office

  Source: collider.com

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• One of the big technical advances that's really great looking is the water.

  John Lasseter

  Water, Bigs

  "Interview: We Talk Cars 2 with John Lasseter". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• I think that doing comedy and playing Dwight is a service. Not to get grandiose about it, but I have a talent for playing oddball characters and I can make people laugh and that can help bring families together and people will really enjoy it and it puts a smile on their face and I think that is a really great thing.

  Rainn Wilson

  Character, Thinking, Laughing

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I think if you keep an open mind and actively look, you find these really great roles that you might have otherwise never even known were out there.

  Emma Roberts

  Thinking, Mind, Roles

  "Emma Roberts Reveals 'AHS: Coven' Secrets & Lies". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. December 11, 2013.

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• To be really great, you need to be naturally funny in order to stand out. But you can work at it, and find the best vehicle that you have to communicate what you're saying to people.

  Amy Schumer

  Order, People, Needs

  Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. October 03, 2012.

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• I'd go for "really great writer." Although I don't think I am. I know I have a style which is recognizable. I think you can see Terry Pratchett in every book. I like doing it. I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Thinking, Style

  "Terry Pratchett on his latest novel, his medical diagnosis, and more". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2012.

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• I'm certainly not going to tell other people what they should do with their own personal lives. I think it's certainly easier for a director to be out. The public is not going to see a movie because the director is gay or straight. It's maybe a little harder for an actor or actress because of, you know, the love roles and stuff. But gay people have been impersonating heteros in the movies for years. So, hopefully, that is becoming less of an issue. I think it would have been really great if a gay person had played a gay person. That's brave!

  John Waters

  Gay, Thinking, Years

  "INTERVIEW : He Really Can't Help Himself : Shockingly eccentric writer-director John Waters offers yet another look at the gruesome with his new film, 'Serial Mom.' It stacks up nicely against his cult faves 'Pink Flamingos' and 'Mondo Trasho'". Interview with James Grant, articles.latimes.com. April 10, 1994.

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• I had really great parents who always gave me lots of opportunity for choice, but I didnt always realize how rare that was for a girl for them to say, You can be a mom or have a career or do both or do something we havent thought of yet.

  Ally Condie

  Girl, Mom, Opportunity

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• I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.

  Nate Silver

  Thinking, Problem, Spread

  "Nate Silver on His Hollywood Future and 'Moneyball'-ing Box Office". Interview with Daniel Miller, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 14, 2012.

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• Royal Canadian Air Farce, and I was in three sketches there. And they wrote some really great stuff for me.

  Trish Stratus

  Air, Farce, Three

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