A Quotes
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“A great strategy connects ambition to reality through practical steps.”
“A great strategy is like a fine wine; it gets better with time and leaves your competitors feeling sour.”
“A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds.”
Source: The Strategy Book ePub eBook: How to Think and Act Strategically to Deliver Outstanding Results
“A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and Eve and the story of Jonah and the Whale. Everything else holds up pretty well, particularly lessons about fairness and gentleness. People who find those lessons irrelevant in the twentieth century are simply using science as an excuse for greed and harshness. Science has nothing to do with it, friends.”
“A great sword pierced Sefton's heart. She too had loved Lucas with her own kind of deep secret love, and it seemed to her in this moment that, if he had asked her, she would have gone with him anywhere.”
Source: The Green Knight
“A great symphony is a man-made Mississippi down which we irresistibly flow from the instant of our leave-taking to a long forseen destination.”
“A great Tamil poet, given to decadence and debauchery, once said that the story of his life could serve as an example to the youth on how one should
not live. Having lived, or rather, having sleepwalked for ten years through the desolate wastelands of depression, I survived to reach the other side. I believe that this validates my claim to write this book for you.”
Source: The Reengineers
“A great task has been completed and an even larger one remains.”
“A great teacher gives you the freedom to do what is right and the intervention to keep you from doing what is wrong.”
Source: Specks of Shadows, Flecks of Light
“A great teacher is not simply one who imparts knowledge to his students, but one who awakens their interest in it and makes them eager to pursue it for themselves. He is a spark plug, not a fuel pipe. The reason colleges exist is to bring students into contact with contagious personalities, for otherwise they might as well be correspondance schools.”
“A great teacher is one who realizes that he himself is also a student and whose goal is not dictate the answers, but to stimulate his students' creativity enough so that they go out and find the answers themselves.”
“A great teacher is the architect of a great future.”
“A great teacher makes being in her class more wonderful than being in the coolest clique.”
Source: Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children
“A great teacher never strives to explain his vision. He simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself.”
“A great teacher once taught me that you've got to have faith that everything happens for the best. I have had many setbacks in my career and every setback has led me that much further into my truth.”
“A great teacher plants the seeds of greatness in the minds of future generations.”
“A great teacher rekindled the fire within the students.”
“A great teacher's mind will be young forever, he is a life long learner --- Happy Teacher's Day”
“A great teacher who is full of excitement and love for her students can make all the difference in their lives.”
“A great team consists of great people who believe in the idea of its leader and align themselves with it until it achieved.”
“A great team doesn’t mean that they had the smartest people. What made those teams great is that everyone trusted one another. It can be a powerful thing when that magic dynamic exists.”
Source: The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
“A great tennis career is something that a 15-year-old normally doesn't have. I hope my example helps other teens believe they can accomplish things they never thought possible.”
“A great textile, like the William Morris Strawberry Thief, is a pice of art, but it takes a lot of time to make a piece of art. It isn't simply design either. You have to understand the fabrics and what they can bear. You have to understand the dyeing process and how to achieve certain colors and what will make the color last through the ages. If you make a mistake, you might have to begin again."
"I don't think I know Strawberry Thief," Sadie said.
"One moment," Mrs. Watanabe said. Mrs. Watanabe went into her bedroom, and she returned with a little footstool that was upholstered in a reproduction of Strawberry Thief. The pattern depicted birds and strawberries in a garden, and although Sadie hadn't known the name, she recognized the print when she saw it.
"This was William Morris's garden. These were his strawberries. Those were birds he knew. No designer had ever used red or yellow in an indigo discharge dyeing technique before. He must have had to start over many times to get the colors right. This fabric is not just a fabric. It's the story of failure and of perseverance, of the discipline of a craftsman, of the life of an artist.”
Source: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“A great textile, like the William Morris Strawberry Thief, is a piece of art, but it takes a lot of time to make a piece of art. It isn't simply design either. You have to understand the fabrics and what they can bear. You have to understand the dyeing process and how to achieve certain colors and what will make the color last through the ages. If you make a mistake, you might have to begin again."
"I don't think I know Strawberry Thief," Sadie said.
"One moment," Mrs. Watanabe said. Mrs. Watanabe went into her bedroom, and she returned with a little footstool that was upholstered in a reproduction of Strawberry Thief. The pattern depicted birds and strawberries in a garden, and although Sadie hadn't known the name, she recognized the print when she saw it.
"This was William Morris's garden. These were his strawberries. Those were birds he knew. No designer had ever used red or yellow in an indigo discharge dyeing technique before. He must have had to start over many times to get the colors right. This fabric is not just a fabric. It's the story of failure and of perseverance, of the discipline of a craftsman, of the life of an artist.”
Source: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“A great thing about these trees is that they are excellent for cleaning, both groundwater, and of course, air.”
“A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.”
“A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.”
“A great thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man.”
Source: The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches
“A great thing shall I make hereof in Heaven of endless worship and everlasting joys.”
Source: Revelations of divine love
“A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way.”
Source: Bulletin
“A great thinker, book, strategy, etc. cannot be criticized or ignored into ungreatness.”
“A great thinker once described innovative thinkers this way: "Some men see things as they are and say, 'Why?' I dream of things that never were and say, 'Why not?'" Innovative thinkers are constantly asking questions such as these. How can we improve recruiting, hiring and training. How can be add greater value to our products and services by making them even better? How can we do more to nourish the personal as well as professional development of our people? What more can we do as a good citizen where we do business?”
“A great thought begins by seeing something differently, with a shift of the mind's eye.”
“A great tragedy is occurring. Millions of people are dying prematurely. These people are killing themselves and they don’t even know it.”
“A great tragedy passes from crest to hollow of passion, rises and sinks again, as rhythmically as sea-waves.”
“A great tree develops over time and can tell stories not only those of happiness, but also those that contain pain from what it has seen over the years, and as a result is the wise ancient tree that it is today. As the seasons change, the tree naturally goes through changes as well: where the leaves turn yellow and orange in the fall, falling by the Winter, returning in the Spring, and with full set of new leafs by the Summer. Love is no different in that there will be times when we are fully naked in the Winter, and left to wonder about Spring when it seemed so easy to love, yet the wise tree knows that no winter will last forever no matter how cold it may be.”
Source: Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
“A great tree like this didn’t have branches that quivered like flowers, stirring affection in people’s hearts, nor did it sway with the wind like strings of vines, seductive and enticing.
He only stood there in silence and severity, very steady and dependable, blocking wind and rain for the passersby without a word, allowing those under the tree to hide from the scorching sun.
Perhaps it was because he’d grown too tall, too luxuriant, that people had to intentionally look up before they’d discover——Ah, so this gentle shade had been bestowed by him.
But all those travelers going to and fro, not one of them had looked up, and not one of them had ever noticed him.
After all, people’s lines of sight were habitually aimed at places lower than themselves, or at eye level at most.”
Source: 二哈和他的白貓師尊
“A great tribute, is expressing the great love for a Grandmother we share with our children.”
“A great trick that I learned having worked as a screenwriter for many years, the way screenwriters work, is they break the project down into three-act structure: Act 1, Act 2, Act 3. I think that is a great way to break down any project, whether it's a new business or anything at all.”
“A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.”
“A great turning point is in the offing. The world is changing. It's changed before, but not for a long time in our lives, not since before our lives. But now it's changing, and there are many many possibilities.”
“A great typeface is not a collection of beautiful letters, but a beautiful collection of letters.”
“A great unification is now taking place between science and spirituality. The most advanced discoveries of modern science are rising to reaffirm the timeless wisdom of the great religious and spiritual traditions of every culture.”
“A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in particular.”
Source: What Luther says: an anthology
“A great verse can have a great influence on the soul of a language.”
Source: The Poetics of Space
“A Great voice has fallen silent. A great heart has stopped.”
“A great voice is a unique instrument, not to sound like another instrument, but to be played like one.”
“A great wasteland of sorrow was opening up in him, unfolding dozens of tiny shacks, terrible squatters setting up residence, banging their miniature liquor bottles against his chest, a hundred feet trampling his organs.”
Source: Land of Big Numbers
“A great wave of humiliation and shame swept over me. Shame that I belonged to a race that could be so dealt with; and shame for my country, that it, the great example of democracy to the world, should be the only civilized, if not the only state on earth, where a human being would be burned alive.”
Source: The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays