How To Be Great Quotes

Tiffany and I are great friends, and I appreciate all that she is doing for me now. But she is not you. I still love you, Nikki. And you can’t control or alter true love.

A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting - poof! - that they're going to produce great work.

For real self esteem is not derived from the great things you've done, the things you won. The mark you've made - but an appreciation of yourself for what you are.

I want Americans to enjoy food. I want them to celebrate food. I want them to, on occasions, to have big cakes and great things. And I want them to indulge.

We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then art will change us.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life.

People want to be successful, and they want to be acknowledged for what they do. Sometimes they make really great art and aren't. Historically, the best artists weren't. But their work survived.

My great grandmother was Chinese .

All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.

All great work artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual is produced at those moments when creators forget themselves altogether and are free from self-consciousness.

Read less and think more. Read about great things and think about great questions and issues.

Genius is the union of man and God in the acts of the soul. Great men are always greater than their deeds. They are in connection with a reserve power that is without limit.

Don't eat anything your great-great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. There are a great many food-like items in the supermarket your ancestors wouldn't recognize as food.. stay away from these

Profit in business comes from repeat customers

Understanding who we are, where we came from, and why we are upon the earth places upon each of us a great responsibility both to learn how to learn and to learn to love learning.

That's what great art does - it inspires other artists to do great art, and that's what it should do.

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.

I'm tired of seeing great women in bullshit relationships.

Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.

You may be capable of great things, But life consists of small things.

I think great art should play a part in the ordinary man's life, don't you? It can make his existence so much richer and more meaningful.

Great marketing is all about telling your story in such a way that it compels people to buy what you are selling.

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.

Real change happens bit by bit. It takes great effort to become effortless at anything. There are no quick fixes.

He is a great leader by example. Someone whom I have always admired for his ability to remain balanced and have the sense of equanimity about his captaincy.

Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.

Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.

I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.

Tied one on last night. Not feeling great this morning. I was trying to sleep it off, unfortunately, it was on the casino floor.

In my films, all the great things are put together. It's not like one kind of ice cream but rather a very big Sundae.

Truly great people emit a light that warms the hearts of those around them. When that light has been put out, a heavy shadow of despair descends.

Do not be afraid to dream great things!

All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal.

One of the great things about running with Ajamu Baraka is that we speak to all of America.

I declare that The Beatles are mutants.

The Stamp Act imposed on the colonies by the Parliament of Great Britain is an ill-judged measure. Parliament has no right to put its hands into our pockets without our consent.

I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.

If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.

To be filled with God, is a great thing; to be filled with the fulness of God, is still greater; to be filled with all the fulness of God, is greatest of all.

For there is only one great adventure and that is inward toward the self, and for that, time nor space nor even deeds matter.

Basically, what you find out is the limits of your patience and your strength and your capacity to adapt. You find that out in travel and being alone and being tested. So that's a great thing.

Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great future.

It is amazing how, when all possibilities seem to be taken away from you, the minutest opening can become a great freedom.

There's no substitute for a great love who says, 'No matter what's wrong with you, you're welcome at this table.'

All Rhodes Scholars had a great future in their past.

The difference between success and failure is work.

Jesse Joyce is a great writer.