Really Great Quotes - Page 24

• None of my actions have ever sort of been motored by the search for a husband or wondering if I was going to have a family someday or wanting to live in a really great house or thinking it would be really great to have a diamond.

  Lena Dunham

  Husband, Thinking, House

  "Lena Dunham Addresses Criticism Aimed At 'Girls'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 7, 2012.

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• I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purpose.

  Rita Rudner

  Break Up, Broken Heart, Heartbroken

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• I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

  Gertrude Stein

  Literature, Mouths, Portraits

  Gertrude Stein, Robert Bartlett Haas (1971). “A primer for the gradual understanding of Gertrude Stein”

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• I believe that the first test of a great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his power. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not of them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful.

  John Ruskin

  Believe, Mean, Humility

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• What the really great artists do is they're entirely themselves. They're entirely themselves. They've got their own vision, they have their own way of fracturing reality, and if it's authentic and true, you will feel it in your nerve endings.

  David Foster Wallace

  Reality, Artist, Vision

  "The Charlie Rose Show", March 27, 1997.

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• For Colin Firth: You're a really great guy, but I'm married, so I think we should just be friends.

  Shannon Hale

  Thinking, Guy, Married

  Shannon Hale (2013). “Austenland: A Novel”, p.7, A&C Black

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• No job is beneath you. You ought to be thrilled you got a job in the mailroom And when you get there, here's what you do: Be really great at sorting mail.

  Randy Pausch

  Jobs, Mail, Sorting

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• It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Book, Reading, Strange

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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• I learned that you should breath it in, breath your life in and enjoy it. Always be optimistic and be nice to people, open to people. Follow your dreams but make sure that you know what your dreams are. If you find something really great, don’t screw it up, don’t mess it up but hang on to it. You never know how and when it ends

  Stana Katic

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

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• Boys say they don't mind how you get your hair done. But then they leave you for someone with really great standard girl hair and the next thing you know you're alone with a masculine crop crying into your granola.

  Alexa Chung

  Girl, Ex Boyfriend, Boys

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• If you are really great, you will let others discover this fact from your actions.

  Napoleon Hill

  Facts, Action, Ifs

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.54, Penguin

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• It would be really great if people would realize that stars are only people with the same weaknesses and flaws, not immaculate idols.

  Meg Ryan

  Stars, Idols, People

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• We often just accept the things that we like, and complain a lot about the things that we don't like. But if we could, like, intensely dwell on the really great things in life the way we intensely dwell on the negative things in life; I think that would be fantastic.

  Hank Green

  Life, Happy, Thinking

  YouTube Channel "vlogbrothers"/"A Few Of My Favorite Things", www.youtube.com. April 01, 2009.

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  Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Inspirational, Sad, Pain

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.262, Google Publishing

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• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly be that kind of a friend for your friends.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational Life, Ambition, People

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• If you keep your eye on the profit, you’re going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Business, Eye

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• Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.

  C. S. Lewis

  Teacher, Morality, Introducing

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.77, HarperCollins UK

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• I think the thing that I've learned is that really great people, they actually want to work on hard problems.

  Ben Silbermann

  Thinking, People, Want

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• The really great thing about my shop is that there's not one dead animal in it. ... Manolo's got a load of fabric shoes as well! We use plastic, fabric, rubber- anything but leather. I almost feel like I've been put here to show everyone that it's unnecessary.

  Stella McCartney

  Animal, Shoes, Rubber

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• At the end of the day, if you follow the music, it'll take you on a really, really great journey

  Mike Dirnt

  Journey, The End Of The Day, Ends

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• Focus is about saying, No. And the result of that focus is going to be some really great products where the total is much greater than the sum of the parts.

  Steve Jobs

  Focus, Saying No, Strategy

  "Jobs: 'Focus Is About Saying No'" by Erick Schonfeld, techcrunch.com. October 6, 2011.

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• We all have a short period of time on this earth-We probably only have the opportunity to do a few things really great and do them well. None of us has any idea how long we're going to be here nor do I, but my feeling is I've got to accomplish a lot of these things while I'm young.

  Steve Jobs

  Opportunity, Ideas, Long

  "Steve Jobs". Book by Walter Isaacson, www.businessinsider.com. 2011.

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