G Quotes
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“Great artists are products of their own time: they do not spring forth fully equipped from the head of Jove, but are formed by the circumstances acting upon them since birth. These circumstances include the ambiance created by the other, lesser artists of their own time, who have all done their part in creating the pressure that forces up an exceptional talent. Unjustly, but unavoidably, the very closeness of a great artist to his colleagues and contemporaries leads to their eclipse.”
Source: The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work
“great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions. Tolstoi's scripts are almost indecipherable. Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession. But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage. What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.”
“Great artists have no country.”
Source: Comedies, tr. by Raoul Pellissier, E. B. Thompson, Mary H. Dey
“Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.”
Source: The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
“Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby. No hitchhiking. And if you want to strike out in any new direction — you go alone. With a machete in your hand and the fear of God in your heart.”
Source: The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
“Great artists need great clients.”
“Great artists suffer for the people.”
“Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.”
Source: The Nature of the Artist: An Address Delivered at the Dedication Ceremonies for Lee Pattison Recital Hall, Wilbur Hall, Mary Kimberly Residence Hall
“Great as heaven and earth are, men still find some things in them with which to be dissatisfied. Thus it is that, were the superior man to speak of his way in all its greatness, nothing in the world would be found able to embrace it, and were he to speak of it in its minuteness, nothing in the world would be found able to split it.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)
“Great athletes chase victory, but greater ones uplift the game itself.”
“Great attention gets paid to rainforests because of the diversity of life there. Diversity in the oceans is even greater.”
“Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.”
Source: Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality
“Great authors, when they write about causes, adduce not only those they think are true but also those they do not believe in, provided they have some originality and beauty. They speak truly and usefully enough if they speak ingeniously.”
Source: The Complete Essays of Montaigne
“Great battles are really won before they are actually fought. To control our passions we must govern our habits, and keep watch over ourselves in the small details of everyday life.”
“Great battles are won with artillery.”
“Great battles that prevail in actions had been won or lost earlier in thoughts. When the mind resists change, it’s in vain the legs chase it!”
Source: Leaders' Watchwords
“Great beauty and youth capture our attention, excite a deep pleasure; however, why shouldn't our souls gaze at a countenance over which the years have passed? Isn't there a story there, one unknown, full of pain or beauty, which pours its reflection into the features, a story we can read with some compassion or at least get a slight hint of its meaning? The young point toward the future; the old tell of a past.”
Source: Indian Summer
“Great beauty can be found in harmonious contrast variations, and brief uses of extremes.
Vastly.”
“Great beauty is often perceived by human senses as pain.”
“Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“Great beginnings are not as important as the way one finishes.”
Source: Stories of Heart and Home
“Great benefit can be found in celebrating those who inspire through divine perserverance and strength, when everyone would understand if they gave up.
There are so many.”
“Great betrayals of the soul - Imposing your world thought upon another.... Manipulating and forcing your will on others.... When you withhold love.”
“Great Big Bears! What happened to you? - Oberon”
Source: Hunted
“Great blessings await us at this time, and will soon be poured out upon us, if we are faithful in all things, for we are even entitled to greater spiritual blessings than they [the faithful at the time of Christ] were, because they had Christ in person with them, to instruct them in the great plan of salvation. His personal presence we have not, therefore we have need of greater faith.”
“Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers. Take the cable thread by thread, take separately all the little determining motives, you break them one after another, and you say: that is all! Wind them and twist them together, they become an enormity.”
Source: Les Miserables Volume One
“Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.”
Source: Les Miserables Volume One
“Great bodies die but great minds don't die! Inside the tomb of great men lay dead body's but at the library of great men lay the living minds of dead bodies!”
“Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.”
Source: A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas
“Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.”
Source: The Major Works
“Great books are great in part because of what they ask of their readers: they are not readily encountered, easily assessed.”
Source: The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
“Great books are readable anyway. Dickens is readable. Jane Austen is readable. John Updike's readable. Hawthorne's readable. It's a meaningless term. You have to go the very extremes of literature, like Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake," before you get a literary work that literally unreadable.”
“Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader’s skull and heart.”
Source: Living, Thinking, Looking: Essays
“great books are the ones we need”
Source: The Last Night of the Earth Poems
“Great books are written for Christianity much oftener than great deeds are done for it. City libraries tell us of the reign of Jesus Christ but city streets tell us of the reign of Satan.”
Source: Thoughts
“Great books are written from a sense that there is nothing to lose.”
“Great books conserve time.”
“Great books don't make great movies. There's too much information in there.”
“Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again.”
“Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.”
“Great books live longer than people.
They are gonna bury us all.”
“Great books make a great life.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Great books make great being.”
“Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.”
“Great books, like large skulls, have often the least brains.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion
“Great boss is challenging people in the right way. Leading, not managing. Supporting them by giving them both a platform they can count on and expectations they can stretch for.”
“Great brand, no resume - no problem. Great resume, no brand? Welcome to position #347 of the stack of five hundred equally great resumes”
Source: The Education of Millionaires: Everything You Won't Learn in College About How to Be Successful
“great brands always balance identity, integrity, and efficiency.”
“Great brands are like great stories. And every story has a beginning, a middle, and an end. And our job is to make sure that every chapter of our stories makes sense to the one in front of it and make sense to the one after it. There is no such thing as an overnight success. You have to get up and put your work boots on every single day.”
“Great brands have wonderful things to convey compared to lousy brands. When lousy brands say “great service,” it means something very different than when a great brand utters the same words.”
Source: Brand Intervention: 33 Steps to Transform the Brand You Have into the Brand You Need