Greatness Quotes - Page 13

• One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human beings.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Army, Discipline, Overcoming

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• Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Heart, Men, Becoming Great

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• The artist who could disentangle the subtle soul of the image from its mesh of defining circumstances most exactly and 're-embody' it in artistic circumstances chosen as the most exact for it in its new office, he was the supreme artist.

  James Joyce

  Artist, Office, Soul

  James Joyce (2016). “The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more”, p.1976, e-artnow

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• If I set out to sculpt a standing man and it becomes a lying woman, I know I am making art.

  Henry Moore

  Art, Lying, Men

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• The great man... walks across his century and leaves the marks of his feet all over it, ripping out the dates on his goloshes as he passes.

  Stephen Leacock

  Men, Feet, Century

  1910 Literary Lapses,'The Life of John Smith'.

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• I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission, and that's what I set out to do.

  Twyla Tharp

  Missions, Choreographers, My Time

  "The High Priestess of Creative Movement". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• Kurosawa was one of film's true greats. His ability to transform a vision into a powerful work of art is unparalleled.

  George Lucas

  Art, Powerful, Names

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To be great, art has to point somewhere.

  Anne Lamott

  Art, Great Art

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.205, Anchor

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• As for famous men who were not artists, I am beginning to be tired of them. Those poor little scoundrels who are called great men fill me with nothing but overwhelming horror.

  Franz Liszt

  Tired, Artist, Men

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• You can always tell a great painting, because when you get close there are all these nervous marks.

  Damien Hirst

  Painting, Nervous, Mark

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• The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your own sense of the world and of yourself. Great art changes you.

  Wendy Beckett

  Art, World, Tests

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• There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being reminded of what a great artist noticed there.

  Alain de Botton

  Artist, Landscape, Results

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• Philosophy may raise us above grandeur, but nothing can elevate us above the ennui which accompanies it.

  Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon

  Philosophy, May, Ennui

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• Let the standard of everybody's mind be raised to the heights of his own inner glory and then man will feel for himself the greatness of the higher values of life and would be tempted to bring them down into practical life and live them.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Men, Mind, Would Be

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1986). “Thirty Years Around the World: 1957-1964”, Stichting Drukkerij En Uitgeverij Mvu

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• I found so-called great art too pompous, too stiff. What at this time was called minor art was freer, more imaginative, more open to all kinds of unorthodox expression, all kinds of daring in the handling of materials, and I preferred to surround myself with this type of art than with the great collectors' pieces. I had always in my mind that I was collecting for learning.

  Jacques Lipchitz

  Art, Expression, Mind

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• All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Littles, Unconscious

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republ”, p.146

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• A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Determination

  "Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living" edited by John Little, (p. 121), 2000.

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• No one ever became great by imitation.

  Samuel Johnson

  Imitation

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• We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.23, Cambridge University Press

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• Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Inspirational, Motivational, Peace

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  Great minds think alone.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Wise, Meaningful, Wisdom

  Twitter post from Aug 4, 2011

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• Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.

  Joseph Conrad

  Business, Men, Quality

  Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.362, McClure, Phillips & Company

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• The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wisdom, Peace, Kindness

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• No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

  William Hazlitt

  Life, Men, History

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1105, Delphi Classics

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• It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Guilt, Criminals, Crowns

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