Great Things Quotes - Page 9

• Every person has unique gifts, and those gifts give him or her the power and the opportunity to accomplish great things, if he or she learns how to use those gifts and channel them in the right direction.

  Zig Ziglar

  Unique, Opportunity, Giving

  Zig Ziglar, Tom Ziglar (2012). “Born to Win: Find Your Success Code”, p.26, AudioInk

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• You and your oven are capable of great things,Remember, no two ovens are the same.

  Elton John

  Two, Remember, Ovens

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• The great thing about knowing you're wrong is the moment you realize it, you're right.

  Vanna Bonta

  Knowing, Realizing, Moments

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• The great thing that guys like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and the Google guys have in common is they treat their technology like it's art, and I suppose in the hands of virtuosos like them, it is.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Art, Technology, Hands

  "Harvey Weinstein's favorite mistake", www.newsweek.com. March 6, 2011.

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• We doubt not the destiny of our country that she is to accomplish great things for human nature, and be the mother of a nobler race than the world has yet known. But she has been so false to the scheme made out at her nativity, that it is now hard to say which way that destiny points.

  Margaret Fuller

  Country, Mother, Destiny

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke”, p.108

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• The sense of tragedy is that the world is not a pleasant little nest made for our protection, but a vast and largely hostile environment, in which we can achieve great things only by defying the gods; and that this defiance inevitably brings its own punishment.

  Norbert Wiener

  Punishment, Tragedy, World

  Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.184, Da Capo Press

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• The way I see it, it's a great thing to be the man who hit the most home runs, but it's a greater thing to be the man who did the most with the home runs he hit. So as long as there's a chance that maybe I can hammer out a little justice now and then, or a little opportunity here and there, I intend to do as I always have -- keep swinging.

  Hank Aaron

  Running, Home, Opportunity

  Hank Aaron (2009). “I Had a Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• That's one of the great thing about writing is that you get to be in someone's head.

  Lauren Conrad

  Writing

  "Lauren Conrad – Sweet Little Lies Interview". Interview with Toni-Marie Ippolito, www.tribute.ca. February 2, 2010.

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• I think the great thing about theatre, and if you start in theatre, is that it does build a confidence in poetic themes and ideas.

  Abi Morgan

  Thinking, Ideas, Theatre

  Source: collider.com

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• The great thing about music is that whatever you're into, you see new possibilities.

  Julia Gillard

  Possibility, Music Is, New Possibilities

  "Julia Gillard: 20 people, 20 questions". www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2013.

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• To a female superhero her sexiness is not the most important thing about her, it's her mind, her spirit, and when I look at that character that to me is an example of characters that I like to play and I think it does a great thing for women.

  Jessica Chastain

  Character, Thinking, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• God is a good God, and that he's on our side, and that he has great things in store and I believe that as we receive the forgiveness that Christ came and was born and died to give us, then we can live a great life.

  Joel Osteen

  Believe, Giving, Sides

  "Pastor Joel Osteen on 'FNS'". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 23, 2007.

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• I don't think I'm craving any more fame. But success and being recognized for making great work all around the world, I think it's a great thing.

  John Legend

  Thinking, World, Fame

  "John Legend talks on music, wedding, Kanye, Syria, more". Interview with The Associated Press, www.denverpost.com. September 10, 2013.

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• The great thing about visual horror films is there's real potential for strong, beautiful imagery. It's the one genre that really lends itself to creating strong images. And I've always loved that idea of windmills - your mind aimlessly spinning.

  Tim Burton

  Beautiful, Strong, Real

  "Tim Burton - part four". Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2000.

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• Everyone is a photographer now, remember. That's the great thing about photography.

  Martin Parr

  Photography, Photographer, Remember

  "An Interview with Martin Parr – “Boundaries Merely Exist in People's Minds” (2007)". Interview with Maarten Dings, Joachim Naudts, www.americansuburbx.com. May 17, 2010.

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• God will always do great things with people who are willing to be faithful in the small things.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  People, Faithful, Gods Will

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Oct 03, 2015

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• Finding a calm place inside myself through meditation kind of helped me to get over a lot of mental illness ... it's just been a really great thing in my life.

  Roseanne Barr

  Meditation, Calm, Kind

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• It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep, and I had fallen into the meanest type of self-deception in making myself believe that all this was in preparation for great things to come.

  Jane Addams

  Believe, Self, Promise

  Jane Addams (2010). “The Selected Papers of Jane Addams: Vol. 2: Venturing into Usefulness”, p.601, University of Illinois Press

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• I was struck by the way in which meanings are historically attached to words: it is so accidental, so remote, so twisted. A word is like a schoolgirl's room--a complete mess--so the great thing is to make out a way of seeing it all as ordered, as right, as inferred and following.

  William H. Gass

  Way, Rooms, Twisted

  William H. Gass, Theodore G. Ammon (2003). “Conversations with William H. Gass”, p.23, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If to be great means to be good, then Denis Diderot was a little man. But if to be great means to do great things in the teeth of great obstacles, then none can refuse him a place in the temple of the Immortals.

  Evelyn Beatrice Hall

  Mean, Men, Teeth

  "The Friends of Voltaire". Book by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, 1906.

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• The great thing about having been poor is how liberated it makes you if you eventually become rich. There's nothing like the knowledge that you don't need money to survive. That the money cushion you lie on every night doesn't have to be three feet thick, and you can still get to sleep.

  Bill Maher

  Lying, Sleep, Night

  "The Great Thing About Having Been Poor" by Bill Maher, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2012.

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• Brad got me this great thing for Christmas. It's a bookshelf that has a book on every religion. That's how we plan to raise our kids. Teach them about all religions. They can pick one or be a student of all of them. We'll celebrate Kwanzaa for our girl. We'll celebrate moon and water festivals for our boys. We'll take them to temples in certain countries. Also to church.

  Angelina Jolie

  Girl, Country, Book

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• All the great things of life are swiftly done, Creation, death, and love the double gate. However much we dawdle in the sun We have to hurry at the touch of Fate.

  John Masefield

  Fate, And Love, Done

  John Masefield (1923). “The Collected Poems”

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• The great thing about meditation is that I don’t ask for anything. Whereas when I pray I always ask for things!

  Rick Springfield

  Meditation, Praying, Asks

  "Rick Springfield: The Journey Is Never Over". Interview with Howard Kerbel, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2014.

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• If you're a Christian, Jew or Muslim, you're equally an American. That's the great thing about America, is the right to worship the way you see fit.

  George W. Bush

  Christian, America, Way

  George W. Bush at the third Presidential Debate in Tempe, Arizona, www.washingtonpost.com. October 13, 2004.

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