Great People Quotes - Page 6

• I just follow great people. If you want to play like a pro, you learn from the pros.

  Raphael Saadiq

  Play, People, Want

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• It's a real gift to be able to have the works of brilliant, great people to learn from and build from. It gives you so much more to draw on, and then you don't have to be all about three-chord pop songs. I don't really like that kind of writing.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Real, Writing

  Interview with Noel Murray, music.avclub.com. June 21, 2006.

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• Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.

  Ozwald Boateng

  Dark, Color, People

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• All the great people say it was their destiny to be great. Know thyself-you have a destiny to be great. It's coded in your DNA/RNA. Meet thy greater self. Express thy higher self. Fulfill your real self.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Real, Destiny, Dna

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• We tried to set up a company that patterned ourselves after Southwest in all the fun, the spirit, the great people, the smile, the efficiency side of it, but we've added some extras that people aren't used to finding on Southwest.

  David Neeleman

  Smile, Fun, People

  "ON THE RECORD: DAVID NEELEMAN / Jetblue Airways". San Francisco Chronicle Intreview, www.sfgate.com. September 12, 2004.

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• I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).

  Gary Lucas

  Moving, People, Doubt

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• Instead of working hard to keep their share of a shrinking pie, or working even harder to make sure the industry stays as is, I think the most essential thing legacy book industry players can do is set up independent ventures with great people and little interference and work really hard to put themselves out of business by starting at the bottom, not by reinforcing the top.

  Seth Godin

  Book, Independent, Player

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• As corny as it sounds, I'm often pinching myself going, 'What great opportunities and great parts and great people that I've gotten to work with.

  Chris Messina

  Opportunity, People, Sound

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• Choose great people and shine in their shadows

  Richard Branson

  People, Shining, Shadow

  FaceBook post by Richard Branson from Dec 27, 2014

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• I've studied a lot of great people over the years - Pete Seeger, James Brown - and tried to incorporate elements that I've admired, though I can't say I dance like James.

  John Fogerty

  Years, People, Elements

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• Kolkata is a great city, has great food and great people. We had some problems finding the kind of old buildings we were looking for, and even handling the crowds, but on the whole it was fun shooting there.

  Sanjay Dutt

  Fun, Cities, Old Buildings

  Interview with Jaspreet Pandohar, www.bbc.co.uk. June 15, 2005.

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• It's not about finding great people, it's about becoming a great person

  Mark Yarnell

  Mlm, People, Marketing

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• I believe great people do things before they are ready.

  Amy Poehler

  Believe, People, Feminist

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.6, Pan Macmillan

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• It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.

  Fran Drescher

  Queens, Growing Up, People

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• I think as a company, if you can get two things right--having a clear direction on what you are trying to do and bringing in great people who can execute on the stuff--then you can do pretty well.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Thinking, Clear Direction, Two

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• Ordinary people shy away form negative situations, just as they do with failure. They do their best to avoid trouble. What great people do is the opposite. They are their best in these situations. They turn personal tragedy or misfortune - really anything, everything - to their advantage.

  Ryan Holiday

  Opposites, People, Tragedy

  Ryan Holiday (2014). “The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph”, p.74, Penguin

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• If I'm going to leave my family for any length of time, it had better be for a role that I haven't played before, with great people. It had better be fun.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Fun, People, Roles

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• I've got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. If there's a parents' night or an Easter bonnet parade or a Nativity play, whatever it might be, then I plan everything around that.

  Victoria Beckham

  Easter, Children, Night

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• There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right. That is the only way to deserve and to win the confidence of our great people in these days of trouble.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Believe, Winning

  Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943”

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• What I got out of it was a great experience working with great people and it becoming a tremendous - basically - a family at the end that none of us wanted to leave.

  Shane West

  People, Experience, Becoming

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• It still hasn't sunk in that I'm going to be in Coronation Street. Everything about the role is brilliant and I'm working with some great people.

  Richard Fleeshman

  People, Roles, Brilliant

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• But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Luxury, People, Film

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• Great people create great acts of kindness.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Motivational, Kindness, People

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• In Jamaica, them always have throwback riddims, recycled old beats, and the hardcore reggae scene is always present. You have faster stuff like the more commercialized stuff, but you always have that segment of music that is always from the core, from the original root of it. This year, you have seen a lot of it explode on the international scene. It's great. People are looking for something different. Maybe there was too much of one thing, and now they're looking for something fresh.

  Damian Marley

  People, Different, Reggae

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There's a lot of great people out here, I just appreciate it and hope everybody has had fun because I've enjoyed my ride.

  Fuzzy Zoeller

  Fun, People, Appreciate

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