Great Quotes
-
Truly great images make all the other millions of images you look at unimportant. You gotta look at an image and understand it in a nanosecond.
-
'Star Wars' or 'The Lord of the Rings' deal with great big Joseph Campbell-style myths, good and evil.
-
A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process
-
Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in anything. Someone literally said to me, 'You should try stand-up,' and took me to a venue.
-
Basketball is a great mystery. You can do everything right. You can have the perfect mix of talent and the best system of offense in the game. You can devise a foolproof defensive strategy and prepare your players for every possible eventuality. But if the players don’t have a sense of oneness as a group, your efforts won’t pay off. And the bond that unites a team can be so fragile, so elusive.
-
There is a common and persistent belief out there that entrepreneurship is about creativity - that it's about having a great idea. But it's not, really. Entrepreneurship isn't about creativity. It's about organization-building - which, in turn, is about people.
-
What I love most about nature is how indifferent it is to us humans and human suffering. While we are here with our little or big tragedies - the wind is blowing, the leaves are rustling in the trees, the flowers bloom, and die - there's a great comfort in that indifference.
-
Freedom from militarism will give the German people the opportunity, if they will but seize it, to apply their great energies and abilities to the works of peace.
-
Giving is what makes a nation great.
-
I started cooking from watching my mom. My mother was a really, really great cook.
-
The fullness of grace can transform the human heart and enable it to do something so great as to change the course of human history.
-
One of the great advantages that I had in my career is I started trading 24 hours a day in my early 20s, and I had to learn to delegate to people.
-
Some songs depend heavily on the character, but, for the most part, a great song begs for reinterpretation every time it is sung, even when in character.
-
Great leaders inspire incredible loyalty in their followers and subordinates.
-
It's great to jump into things you're not sure of and you haven't done and that are a little scary. That's what we have to do, as artists.
-
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
-
That's the beauty of risotto. You can make it any flavor you want. It's a great carrier.
-
Great brands and great businesses have to be great storytellers, too. We have to tell stories - emotive, compelling stories - and even more so because we're nonfiction.
-
Great countries need to secure their border for national security purposes, for economic purposes and for rule of law purposes.
-
Kids like us don't often have the chance of meeting a great warrior like you. Would you have a little fencing match with me? It would be frightfully decent.
-
I've always said winning's the great deodorant, and conversely, when you have a bad record, everything stinks, and everything starts to unravel, and everything falls apart.
-
The fans are great. They give me that extra edge.
-
The great thing with unhappy times is to take them bit by bit, hour by hour, like an illness. It is seldom the present, the exact present, that is unbearable.
-
The automotive X Prize, to a great degree, is focused on addressing petroleum usage and carbon emissions.
