Be Great Quotes

Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.

Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great. Competent design is not too much of a stretch. But if you are trying to do something new, you have challenges on so many axes.

That was my great ambition. Not to be Illea's princess. To be Aspen's.

Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations.

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

I don't feel, 'I've made a great film'; I feel I've made what I set out to make.

I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the trenches of trying to enact social change. I am far lazier than that.

Mannerism always wants to be finished and doesn't enjoy the process. Genuine, truly great talent, however, finds its greatest satisfaction in the production.

A great team doesn’t mean that they had the smartest people. What made those teams great is that everyone trusted one another. It can be a powerful thing when that magic dynamic exists.

Elizabeth I was my favourite monarch though, what an inspiration, she did great things for women.

I was a great fan of Jim Henson.

The problem in child care, which really all of us are going to have to think hard on, is that there is no really great solution that we can come up with for ages zero to three.

Valour, however unfortunate, commands great respect even from enemies: but the Romans despise cowardice, even though it be prosperous.

Wow, Johnny. I send you out for reinforcements and you come back with an old man, a nerd and this little hobbit guy. Great job.

To me, a great love story is a great love story, and it doesn't matter what gender is involved.

A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.

If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different to you and me.

Great wisdom not applied to action and behavior is meaningless data.

All great change in business has come from outside the firm, not from inside.

The majority of great men are the offspring of unhappy marriages.

A little person in a little place can use a little thing, perform a little task, and receive a great reward.

King Fahd was a man of great vision and leadership who inspired his countrymen for a quarter of a century as king. He led Saudi Arabia through a period of unparalleled progress and development.

In 1860, sixty-three per cent of the couples married in Great Britain had families of four or more children; in 1925 only twenty per cent had more than four.

If you want to build a great company, get the hell out of Silicon Valley.

The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain.

I see no point in exchanging something that I understand, know, love and think will have a great future for something else that I know much less about.

Good comedy helps people know they're not alone. Great comedy provides an answer.

Only when the heart loves can the intellect do great work.

It's a great thing, for someone to feel that they can draw inspiration from you.

France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance.

Cornwall is one of the most beautiful places, with great people - there's not a great downside to it.

The great thing about playing a character that's similar to the audience, or similar to you, is that you get to have the same reaction that you would actually have to whatever's going on.

No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.

Donald Trump is going to be an unconventional president. I really think we have a great opportunity in front of us to fix problems, produce results, and improve people's lives.

Great things are possible only to strong souls and it's from the trivial events of daily life that strength is won.

I love being around great actors and film-makers, and I try to hide the fact that I'm in awe of them.

Maybe one of the qualities of being a great coach is being [a jerk]. There are quite a few of them around.

Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes.

Great art must be a living thing, or it is not art at all.

I call this book The Intent to Live because great actors don't seem to be acting, they seem to be actually living.

Even potential human life needs to be treated with great respect.

I like Chris Martin. I think he's a really great songwriter.

Marvel does a great job of making their characters human.

I've done a lot of independent travelling, which hasn't been the best career choice, but it's been a really great life choice.

Great opportunity is only as good as your preparation to take advantage of it.

Abbey Lee was a very famous model and had great success. She was very open about the negative aspects of that industry.

United States could be a great country. It needs to be a great country. It's our responsibility as citizens to make that happen, every single one of us.

He has to be a great teacher. You have to have the right stuff and in the right proportions, and you have to convey that to the coaches, and then to the players.

Vaccination is one of the easiest things on the way to development. It's much easier than roads and a great education system. It's very basic. It's one of the first things you want to get right.

I have to say I owe my career to the master composers of the Great American Songbook who have written such high-quality songs - the best popular music ever composed.