A Quotes
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“All great changes are preceded by chaos.”
“All great changes in life were inspired either by a book or by a personal point of view. The greatest were inspired by a woman.”
“All great Christians have been wounded souls.”
“All great civilisations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.”
“All great companies have spirit and culture. Mean spirited returns mean spirit.”
“All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique.”
“All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy.”
“All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy. I don't look for skill in art... skill has nothing to do with technical proficiency... I'm interested in people who rethink skill, who redefine or reimagine it: an engineer, say, who builds rockets from rocks.”
“All great conversions are born from the sudden revelation of life's meaninglessness. Nothing could be more moving or more impressive than this sudden apprehension of the void of existence.”
Source: Tears and Saints
“All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street-corner or in a restaurant’s revolving door. So it is with absurdity.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
“All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus
“All great discoveries and inventions spring from the delight of strong men in victory. They are expressions of personality and not of the utilitarian thinking of the masses, who are merely spectators of the event, but must take its consequences whatever they may be.”
Source: Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life
“All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.”
“All great discoveries...are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents.”
“All great dreamers have great faith.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman.”
“All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty.”
“All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.”
“All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.”
“All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade.”
Source: Time and the Art of Living
“All great expression, which on a superficial survey seems so easy as well as so simple, furnishes after a while, to the faithful observer, its own standard by which to appreciate it.”
Source: Woman in the 19th century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition, and duties of woman
“All great fighting is the same, Eragon, even as all great warriors are the same. Past a certain point, it does not matter whether you wield a sword, a claw, a tooth or a tail. It is true, you must be capable with your weapon, but anyone with the time, and the inclination can acquire technical proficiency. To achieve greatness, though, that requires artistry. That requires imagination and thoughtfulness, and it is those qualities that the best warriors share, even if, on the surface, they appear completely different.”
“All great films are a resolution of a conflict between darkness and light. There is no single right way to express yourself. There are infinite possibilities for the use of light with shadows and colors. The decisions you make about composition, movement and the countless combinations of these and other variables is what makes it an art.”
“All great heroes have a flaw. It's one of the things that makes them heroes.”
“All great hotels should have stellar personalized service, a unique design that gives guests a sense of place, an excellent on-site restaurant, and other fantastic amenities. Obviously location is a key factor as well.”
“All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, a scientist, an artist, or an entrepreneur. In service of their goals, they lay down time, energy and many other choices and pleasures; in return, they become most truly themselves. A false destiny may be spotted by the fact that it consumes without transforming, without giving back the enlarged self.”
“All great humorists are sad... I cannot help seeing beyond the tinsel of humour, and recognising the pitiful basis of jest - the world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
“All great ideas, all great leaps of progress, all have a wake of sacrificial bodies.”
“All great ideas are dangerous.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,
“All great ideas should be followed by an exclamation mark - a warning signal similar to the skull and crossbones drawn on high-voltage transformers.”
“All great ideas start as weird ideas. What now seems obvious, early on, is not obvious to anybody.”
“All great innovations are built on rejections.”
“All great inventions emerge from a long sequence of small sparks; the first idea often isn’t all that good, but thanks to collaboration it later sparks another idea, or it’s reinterpreted in an unexpected way. Collaboration brings small sparks together to generate breakthrough innovation.”
“All great leaders constantly seek new information and new ways of thinking.”
“All great leaders find a sense of balance through their levels of reception. For instance, those who support a leader may soften him, those who ignore him may challenge him, and those who oppose him may stroke his ego.”
Source: Killosophy
“All great leaders have understood that their number one responsibility is cultivating their own discipline and personal growth. Those who cannot lead themselves cannot lead others.”
“All great leaders since Moses have known that a feared enemy must be crushed completely. (Sometimes they have learned this the hard way.) If one ember is left alight, no matter how dimly it smolders, a fire will eventually break out. More is lost through stopping halfway than through total annihilation: The enemy will recover, and will seek revenge. Crush him, not only in body but in spirit.”
“All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability.”
“All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer.”
“All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.”
“All great love stories have great pain. You were worth it.”
“All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.”
Source: More in Anger
“All great masters, in their work, seek that profound void within color and outside time.”
Source: My Name Is Red
“All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.”
“All great men are partially inspired.”
“All great men are play actors of their own ideal.”
“All great men come out of the middle classes.”
Source: The Conduct of Life
“All great men face challenges in the pursuit of their goals. However, the challenges did not deter them for pushing forward and realizing their goals.”
“All great men had simple beginnings.”