Greatness Quotes - Page 33

• There is always a struggle, a striving for something bigger than yourself in all forms of art. And even if you don't achieve greatness, even if you fail, which we all must, everything you do in your work is somehow connected with your attitude toward life, your deepest secret feelings.

  Rex Harrison

  Art, Attitude, Struggle

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

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• Great inventions are never, and great discoveries are seldom, the work of any one mind. Every great invention is really an aggregation of minor inventions, or the final step of a progression. It is not usually a creation, but a growth, as truly so as is the growth of the trees in the forest.

  Robert Henry Thurston

  Hard Work, Science, Discovery

  "The Growth of the Steam Engine". Popular Science, Volume 12, No. 1, p. 11, November 1877.

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• [Fritz Haber's] greatness lies in his scientific ideas and in the depth of his searching. The thought, the plan, and the process are more important to him than the completion. The creative process gives him more pleasure than the yield, the finished piece. Success is immaterial. "Doing it was wonderful." His work is nearly always uneconomical, with the wastefulness of the rich.

  Richard Willstatter

  Success, Lying, Hard Work

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• How does one chip off the marble that doesn't belong? ... That comes about through five things: humility, reverence, inspiration, deep purpose, and joy. No great man has ever wise-cracked his way to greatness. Until one learns to lose one's self he cannot find himself. No one can multiply himself by himself. He must first divide himself and give himself to the service of all, thus placing himself within all others through acts of thoughtfulness and service.

  Walter Russell

  Wise, Inspiration, Humility

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• Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another.

  Tryon Edwards

  Appreciation, Art, Book

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.91, Ravenio Books

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• To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

  Suzanne Curchod

  Appreciation, Self, Great Ones

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• Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the "someday I'll" philosophy.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Philosophy

  Denis Waitley (1985). “The Winners Edge”, Berkley

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• Like art, like music, like so many other disciplines, prayer can only be appreciated when you actually spend time in it. Spending time with the Master will elevate your thinking. The more you pray, the more will be revealed. You will appreciate not only the greatness of prayer, but the greatness of God.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Art, Prayer, Thinking

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• If we allow the celebrity rock-star model of leadership to triumph, we will see the decline of corporations and institutions of all types. The twentieth century was a century of greatness, but we face the very real prospect that the next century will see very few enduring great institutions.

  James C. Collins

  Stars, Real, Rocks

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• We must reject the idea... Well-intentioned, but dead wrong... That the primary path to greatness in the social sectors is to become "more like a business." Most businesses... Like most of anything else in life... Fall somewhere between mediocre and good.

  James C. Collins

  Business, Fall, Ideas

  "Good to Great and the Social Sectors". Book by James C. Collins, 2005.

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• One of the great movements in my lifetime among educated people is the need to commit themselves to action. Most people are not satisfied with giving money; we also feel we need to work.

  Peter Drucker

  Work, Giving Money, People

  "New Priorities" by Peter Drucker, www.context.org. Summer 1992.

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• Research your idea. See if there's a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don't know if there's a need for it. You also have to research your competition.

  Magic Johnson

  Motivational, Basketball, Ideas

  "Making Magic". Interview with Janean Chun, www.entrepreneur.com. July 1, 1998.

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• I just feel that my competitive drive is far greater than anyone else that I've met, and I think that I thrive on that.

  Michael Jordan

  Motivational, Thinking, Competition

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• The starting point of great success and achievement has always been the same. It is for you to dream big dreams. There is nothing more important, and nothing that works faster than for you to cast off your own limitations than for you to begin dreaming and fantasizing about the wonderful things that you can become, have, and do.

  Brian Tracy

  Success, Wise, Dream

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Jan 25, 2014

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• Great ideas come from everywhere if you just listen and look for them. You never know who's going to have a great idea.

  Sam Walton

  Motivational, Ideas, Listening

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• It occurred to me that building a company was the best way to align a group of people towards building something great. And its really... it's a good organizational structure where you can really reward people. If they're building something that's good, you can you work with partners and reward them if the product that you're developing work well. It's a good way to get the best people involved to build something very good.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  People, Rewards, Way

  "Mark Zuckerberg, Moving Fast And Breaking Things". "Business Insider's series on Innovation" with Henry Blodget, www.sfgate.com. October 14, 2010.

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• To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

  Bruce Lee

  Motivation, Don't Give Up, Positivity

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• If you did not care at all what anyone else thought about you, what would you do differently or change in your life?

  Brian Tracy

  Attitude, Care, Ifs

  Twitter post from Mar 9, 2014

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• Make a game of finding something positive in every situation. Ninety-five percent of your emotions are determined by how you interpret events to yourself.

  Brian Tracy

  Happiness, Attitude, Games

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Feb 08, 2012

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• My suggestion would be to walk away from the 90% who don't and join the 10% who do.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivation, Suggestions, Would Be

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• Of all the 'attitudes' we can acquire, surely the attitude of gratitude is the most important and by far the most life-changing.

  Zig Ziglar

  Happiness, Gratitude, Attitude

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Sep 18, 2014

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• Funny is an attitude.

  Flip Wilson

  Funny, Attitude, Positive Attitude

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• The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Congratulations, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.401

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• No viticultural region in America has demonstrated as much progress in quality and potential for greatness as... the Santa Barbara region, where the Burgundian varietals Chardonnay and Pinot Noir are planted in its cooler climates.

  Robert M. Parker, Jr.

  Wine, Santa Barbara, America

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• One can rarely achieve greatness on the path of least resistance.

  Wes Fesler

  Determination, Path, Resistance

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