Be Great Quotes
People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I heard your dad's speech, and it's really great.' And they'll mention some place I didn't even know my dad was going to.
I go to Saint Barth in the French West Indies for two weeks each year. That place is amazing. Amazing people, beautiful beaches, great wine, wonderful harbors... It's incredibly romantic.
The cast of 'Vikings' is a real team, a true ensemble. It's a mad, eclectic, great bunch! But we support each other and trust each other completely. There are no egos.
One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.
I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know.
Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.
A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
Money is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative.
I'm having a great time. It's like I'm on some ridiculous big roller coaster not knowing what's happening next, but just having a great time on the ride.
I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
Being a part of SKECHERS is exciting. It is such a hip company with a great attitude and image.
If a site is done with pleasure and a fun attitude, it's a great way to communicate with your fans.
Since I travel so much, it's always great to be home. There's nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning.
To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this will be overwhelmingly a positive thing for the region and the world.
I love photography. My boyfriend's got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday.
We're taught by repetition but great innovators need to be great at doing the different.
Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience.
Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened a world.
There are people all over the world who like to write fan letters in the voice of their pet: 'Hello, my name is Fifi and I'm a labrador and I think you're great. Paw paw!'
In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a chance to remember what the world is really like.
And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.
I feel so very grateful to have the voice God gave me. It takes a lot of rest and training to sing, and I was lucky that I found a great teacher when I first moved to New York.
And the great question for mankind is what is to be loved or hated next, whenever and old love or fear has lost its hold.
I've always believed that the facts about dancing are more interesting than the myths, and this was a great chance for me to explore how the human body does such incredible things.
I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can't think of a profession I have more respect for.
Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.
When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.
All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique.
In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!
After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
You don't need to be a scientist to know how powerful your imagination is.
Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.
One sign of a great actor is when he can be alone by himself on the screen, doing almost nothing, and producing one of a film's defining moments.
To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.
Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.
Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
I absolutely loved being famous. It was all great, up until the point when it wasn't.
Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.