G Quotes
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“Great achievement often happens when our backs are up against the wall. Pressure can actually enhance your performance.”
Source: The Greatness Guide: One of the World's Most Successful Coaches Shares His Secrets for Personal and Business Mastery
“Great achievement requires personal force, determined spirit and self-confidence.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure.”
“Great achievers are willing to die as hatrick dream scorers rather than to live as disappointed spectators! They keep the running to make it happen!”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“Great acting can be almost a psychotic mix of self-consciousness and unself-consciousness. And thats the terrible conflict. You have to be free to jump off into that volcano and you have to be pathologically self-conscious.”
“Great acting is about listening to what they are saying ....not waiting to deliver your lines.”
“Great acting is all about being in the moment, being in the present tense.”
“Great acting is as much about the choices a performer makes as it is about their ability.”
“Great acting is being able to create a character. Great character is being able to be yourself.”
“Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week.”
“Great actions speak great minds.”
Source: The Works of Mr. Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher: In Ten Volumes. Collated with All the Former Editions, and Corrected. With Notes Critical and Explanatory
“Great actors are so easy to direct. It's like they're big 747s that you just have to move left and right, and I don't really need to direct. I need to put them in the right costume, with the right haircut, in the right location, and with the right actor to act with.”
“Great actors come with depth about how their character sees the world, and they completely defend it. They could defend it in a court of law, down to the reason the patient deserved this.”
“Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.”
“Great actors who I want to work with-have such a misconception of who I am because of all the things that get said about me.”
“Great acts are made up of small deeds.”
Source: 道德经
“Great advantage is drawn from knowledge of your adversary, and when you know the measure of his intelligence and character, you can use it to play on his weakness.”
Source: Instructions for His Generals
“Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.”
“Great advertising is the expression of deep emotional sincerity.”
Source: Company parade
“Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.”
“Great affectation and great absence of it are at first sight very similar.”
“Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity.”
“Great, Alexia thought, I have gone from soul sucker to electrical ground. The epithets just get sweeter and sweeter.”
Source: Soulless
“Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.”
“Great almes-giving lessens no mans living.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Great ambition is the passion of a great character.”
“Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.”
“Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.”
Source: The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Or, An Essay Towards an Analysis of the Principles by which Men Naturally Judge Concerning the Conduct and Character, First of Their Neighbours, and Afterwards of Themselves : to which is Added, A Dissertation on the Origin of Languages
“Great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Correspondence [contin.] 1795-1804; 1777; 1791. Letters of H. G. 1789. Address to public creditors. 1790. Vindication of funding system. 1791
“Great American power and responsibility are not unprecedented, and have been used with restraint and great benefit in the past. We have not assumed that super strength guarantees super wisdom, and we have consistently reached out to the international community to ensure that our own power and influence are tempered by the best common judgment.”
Source: The Jimmy Carter Library
“Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it.”
“Great American union rules with a fist, a smile, and a gun. Great American napalm lights up the sky like the sun.”
“Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness.”
“Great and frequent reverses can crush and mar our bliss both by the pain they cause and by the hindrance they offer to many activities. Yet nevertheless even in adversity nobility shines through, when a man endures repeated and severe misfortune with patience, not owing to insensibility but from generosity and greatness of soul.”
Source: The Nicomachean ethics
“Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.”
“Great and good are seldom the same man.”
“Great and good men and women stirred sugar into their coffee knowing that it had been picked by slaves. Kind, good ancestors of all of us never questioned hangings, burnings, tortures, inequality, suffering and injustice that today revolt us. If we dare to presume to damn them with our fleeting ideas of morality, then we risk damnation from our descendants for whatever it is that we are doing that future history will judge as intolerable and wicked: eating meat, driving cars, appearing on TV, visiting zoos, who knows?”
“Great and pure thoughts cannot be deposited in minds accumulated with rubbish.”
“Great and small suffer the same mishaps.”
“Great and terrible systems of divinity and philosophy lie round about us, which, if true, might drive a wise man mad.”
Source: The National Review
“Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.”
“Great anger and violence can never build a nation.”
Source: Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom
“Great answers are found in tough questions. Never give up because of how hard the seed it; it’s a proof that it carries sweeter fruits!”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“Great appearance and manners may help to cure your insecurities in the public place.”
“Great architecture has only two natural enemies: water and stupid men.”
“Great are the stars, and man is of no account to them. But man is a fair spirit, whom a star conceived and a star kills. He is greater than those bright blind companies. For though in them there is incalculable potentiality, in him there is achievement, small, but actual. Too soon, seemingly, he comes to his end. But when he is done he will not be nothing, not as though he had never been; for he is eternally a beauty in the eternal form of things.”
“Great are the symbols of Being, But that which is symboled is greater;
Vast the create and beheld, But vaster the Inward Creator.”
“Great are the tasks of the National Government in the sphere of economic life.
Here all action shall be governed by one law: the Volk does not live for the economy, and the economy does not exist for capital, but capital serves the economy and the economy serves the Volk!”
Source: Hitler Speeches and Proclamations 1932-1945: The Chronicle of a Dictatorship. Vol. I: 1932-1934
“Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world.”
“Great armies are nothing but a collection of weakness.”