Great Things Quotes - Page 34

• Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This is a precious gift.

  Paul Valery

  Ignorance, Men, Precious Gifts

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• Avoid trivial pursuits. You are a child of God, destined for glory, and called to do great things in His Name. Do not waste your life on hobbies, sports, and other recreational pursuits. Do not throw away the precious moments of your life on entertainment, movies, and video games. Though some of these things can properly have a 'small place' in the Christian's life, we must be careful not to give undue attention to temporal and fruitless activities. Do not waste your life. Employ the time of your youth in developing the character and skills necessary to be a useful servant of God.

  Paul Washer

  Faith, Sports, Christian

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• One of the great things going on right now is social media and you get a real sense, immediately, about what people are feeling and thinking.

  Jeremy Piven

  Real, Thinking, Media

  "Jeremy Piven Talks MR. SELFRDIGE, Similarities Between His Characters Harry Selfridge and Ari Gold, Plus Fans’ Desire to See an ENTOURAGE Movie". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 14, 2013.

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• Often, I go and see films where I can see the beats coming. So, if I read something where I don't see the beats coming and it takes me somewhere unexpected, that's a great thing to build upon.

  David Brooks

  Unexpected, Film, Beats

  "Director David Brooks ATM Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 4, 2012.

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• I didn't want to do a costume drama. It's a great thing to do, but I've done them, and I didn't want to do the same thing again. Of course, costume dramas can be from all different eras, but at the time, I just felt very sure that I didn't want to be boxed in as an English actress. I wanted to be an actress, rather than an English actress.

  Carey Mulligan

  Drama, Different, Done

  Source: collider.com

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• Sometimes great things come from doing things quickly and not over-thinking stuff.

  Jamie Bell

  Thinking, Stuff, Sometimes

  "Jamie Bell's History Lesson". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 9, 2014.

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• It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Adventure, Adventurous, Accomplish

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• You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things.

  George S. Patton

  Discipline, Undisciplined, Small Things

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• Our Lord God doesn't do great things except by violence, as they say

  Martin Luther

  Violence, Lord, Lord God

  Martin Luther (1967). “Table talk”

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• If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me; Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand, They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain, While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.

  John Milton

  Ambition, Hands, Treasure

  John Milton (1785). “Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes: and Poems Upon Several Occasions. The Author John Milton. A New Edition. With Notes of Various Authors, by Thomas Newton, ...”, p.92

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• Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can.

  John Milton

  Stronger, Earnest

  John Milton (1829). “Paradise Lost: Paradise Regained”

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• I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theatre, or the play - but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.

  Arthur Miller

  Thinking, Play, Theatre

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• I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though defeated here and there; and even though one sometimes feels a kind of decay, though things go differently from the expected, it is necessary to take heart again and new courage. For the great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed. What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Wall, Believe, Heart

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• The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Energy, Dresses, Way

  "Fashion Spotlight: Jean Paul Gaultier" by Anne Slowey, www.elle.com. January 21, 2010.

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• I do think that Live Aid (1985) (TV) was a great thing, it focused people, I think it showed young kids the way in many respects and I think a lot of people are still inspired by what happened in the mid-Eighties.

  George Michael

  Kids, Thinking, People

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• When we speak of God or achieving union with God, we are often merely trying to put that great thing into a small container. One cannot drive a camel through the eye of a needle.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Eye, Trying, Camels

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• The Church does not invent sins but recognizes the will of God and has to declare it. Of course, the great thing.. is that upon the Church, which has to declare the will of God in its full magnitude, in its unconditional rigor, so that man should know his true measure, is bestowed as a gift, at the same time, the task of forgiving.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Men, Forgiving, Church

  Pope Benedict XVI, Peter Seewald (2002). “God and the World: Believing and Living in Our Time : a Conversation with Peter Seewald”, p.46, Ignatius Press

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• I don't get any parts I don't get offered. There are lots of great things out there I would like to do that I don't get offered.

  Aidan Quinn

  Parting

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• In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary point and take details for granted: two trivialities omitted can add up to an impasse). The unpractised writer, even after the dawn of a conscience, gives him no such chance; before he can spot the point he has to tease his way through a maze of symbols of which not the tiniest suffix can be skipped.

  John Edensor Littlewood

  Two, Giving, Add

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• When you get up in the morning and know you're doing something you love, feel fit and look after yourself, it's just a great thing to do.

  Jermain Defoe

  Morning, Looks, Fit

  "Tottenham's Jermain Defoe eyes 'great feeling' of being just 19th man to score 20 goals for England" by Martin Lipton, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2013.

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• There's a powerful transformative effect when you surround yourself with like-minded people. Peer pressure is a great thing when it helps you accomplish your goals instead of distracting you from them.

  Po Bronson

  Powerful, Accomplish Your Goals, People

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• It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Humble, Humility, Lows

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• High politic is only common sense applied to great things.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Common Sense, Politics

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• If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth - and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Running, War

  "Steve Jobs obituary" by Jack Schofield, October 5, 2011.

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• Today remind yourself that nothing is too good to be true. Your great hopes can be realized. Your most wonderful dreams can come true. All that you really need, you can have. An incredible goodness is operating on your behalf. If you are living a paltry life, resolve to stop it today. Expect great things to happen.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Dream, Positive Energy

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