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“A great piece of literature does not try to coerce you to believe it or agree with it. A great piece of literature simply is . It is a vehicle of truth, but it is not a blueprint, and we tend to confuse the two.”
Source: A Circle of Quiet
“A great piece of literature encompasses all that is and all that will be.”
“A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.”
“A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed. Any prelude or fugue of Bach can be played at any tempo, with or without rhythmic nuances, and it will still be great music. That's how music should be written, so that no-one, no matter how philistine, can ruin it.”
“A great piece of music make people to close their eyes but a great magic effect make their eyes wide open.”
“A great pinot chases its own tail. You drink it and you just keep finding new tastes that go with it. My dream was to make a world-class pinot and learn more about other wines as well.”
“A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”
Source: Estimates of Some Englishmen and Scotchmen
“A great pleasure in life is to do what they say you can't.”
“A great poet can give wings to abstract thoughts that touch a reader’s mind with the ecstasy of joy.”
“A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves.”
Source: The Real Work: Interviews & Talks, 1964-1979
“A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming when there will no longer be one standard of morality for poetry and another for life. To anyone tender of conscience, the ties formed by a free connection are stronger than the legal ones.”
“A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.”
Source: Letters from the Collection of Ludwig Nohl: Also His Letters to the Archduke Rudolph, Cardinal-Archbishop of Olmütz, K.W. from the Collection of Ludwig, Ritter Von Köchel. Translated by Lady Wallace, with a Portrait and Facsimile
“A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more consonant to Nature.”
Source: Lyrical Ballads and other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth (Including Their Thoughts On Poetry Principles and Secrets): Collections of Poetry which marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature, including poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Dungeon, The Nightingale, Dejection: An Ode
“A great poet to me
is a person who can describe a painting
in such ways
that even a person
with closed eyes
can feel the pain of the artist.”
“A great poet! when he falls in love with you how can you die ..”
“A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings
“A great politician has great charisma.”
“A great portion of my work is born as a response to ridicule. That is why, I do not retaliate ridicule right away. Why let a good ridicule go to waste! Use it to your advantage. That's the wisest retaliation of ridicule there is.”
Source: Ingan Impossible: Handbook of Hatebusting
“A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.”
“A great power imposes the obligation of exercising restraint, and we did not live up to this obligation. I think this affected many of the scientists in a subtle sense, and it diminished their desire to continue to work on the bomb.”
“A great president will preside over from behind to keep people on the front”
“A great principle of minimalism is using the minimum amount of resources, which accords perfectly with our present-day need for sustainability.”
“A great private collection is a material concentrate that continually stimulates, that overexcites. Not only because it can always be added to, but because it is already too much. The collector’s need is precisely for excess, for surfeit, for profusion. It’s too much—and it’s just enough for me. … A collection is always more than is necessary.”
Source: The Volcano Lover
“A great problem of the internet is how to filter information, how to discard what is not relevant or what is silly and to keep only the important information.”
“A great product is not only developed with a few requirements that are kept in mind but also with excellence in data science and all key metrics.”
“A great product is when you are never done building it”
“A great product isn't just a collection of features. It's how it all works together.”
“A great product may open the door, but great marketing invites people to stay.”
“A great product will survive all abuse. Google Glass is a great product. How do I know? Every person I put it on (I did it dozens of times at 500 Startups yesterday) smiles. No other product has done that since the iPod.”
“A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.”
Source: Tom Stoppard in Conversation
“A great property manager is key to success in real estate.”
Source: Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
“A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.”
“A great proverb feeds the soul and fuels the mind!”
“A great purpose with great commitment can definitely create a great life with great value”
“A great purposelessness has descended upon modern civilizations. People at large have lost any sense of the meaning and purpose of life; and without an understanding of our own purpose, there can be no true commitment. Whether that commitment is to marriage, family, study, work, God, relationships, or the simple resolutions of our lives, it will be almost impossible to fulfill without a clear and practical understanding of our purpose. Commitment and purpose go hand in hand.”
Source: The Rhythm of Life: Living Everyday With Passion and Purpose
“A great quote can illuminate the infrastructure of life.”
“A great race car driver in a bad car doesn't make great results. A great car and a bad race car driver doesn't make great results. You have to have both. It's the combination of driver and car.”
“A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is must reading for anyone with an interest in the enduring effects of the Vietnam War, the subject of crime in our streets, and the issue of personal responsibility in a harsh, chaotic world.”
“A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.”
“A great real estate agent don't sells, he helps.”
“A great realtor is always in relationship with real estate.”
“a great reason why a gloomy history may repeat itself is that we may have neglected what history did. When we neglect what history did, history visits us in the same cloth”
“A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but the noise remains, and will reach to other generations.”
“A great reserve and severity of manners are necessary for the command of those who are older than ourselves.”
“A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.”
“A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.”
“A great rock band searches for the same kind of combustible force that fueled the expansion of the universe after the big bang. You want the earth to shake and spit fire. You want the sky to split apart and for God to pour out.”
“A great rock is not disturbed by the wind; the mind of a wise man is not disturbed by either honor or abuse.”
“A great ruler, a great court, a great kingdom, these texts suggest never exist unto themselves, as stable, fully actualized entities, and, therefore, are never experienced in their plenitude in the present. Instead, they are always remembered as something that occured in the past or anticipated as something will reoccur in the future. Insofar as they are experienced in the current time, it is only for a brief and evanescent moment, overshadowed by the knowledge that it will soon vanish.
For a realist, the fact that the excellence of a person, a place, or a time is not appreciated in its own time proves that it was never actually as excellent as it seemed.
For a Romantic, however, there exist a people, places, and times whose excellence can only be appreciated Arthur always has to be - to quote the Alliterative Morte Arthure (ca.1400) - "the once and future king”
Source: The Danger of Romance: Truth, Fantasy, and Arthurian Fictions
“A great sadness welled up in Magnus at the sight of him. It was human to age and die, and Jem stood outside that humanity now, outside the light that burned so brightly and so briefly. It was cold outside that light and fire. No one had greater cause to know that cold than Magnus did.”
Source: The Bane Chronicles