977 private quotes tagged great

“There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.” — Yousuf Karsh

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“In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone but sometimes it is a great relief.” — John Barrymore

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“I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.” — Cyrano de Bergerac

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“I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.” — Marilyn Monroe

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“No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.” — Orison Swett Marden

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“No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.” — Calvin Coolidge

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“A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.” — Oliver Goldsmith

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“It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!” — Anthony de Mello

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“India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.” — Sri Aurobindo

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“I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world.” — Dorothy Hamill

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“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.” — Igor Stravinsky

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“France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.” — Johnny Depp

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“A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.” — Louis Kahn

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“It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.” — John Ruskin

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“A great artist is always before his time or behind it.” — George Edward Moore

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“Great art picks up where nature ends.” — Marc Chagall

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“No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

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“All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.” — John Ruskin

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“Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.” — George Jean Nathan

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“It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.” — Horace

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“Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.” — Margot Fonteyn

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“A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.” — Barbara Corcoran

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“A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.” — Earl Nightingale

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“Beauty is indeed a good gift of God but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.” — Saint Augustine

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