G Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with G. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Great players and great teams want to be driven. They want to be pushed to the edge. They don't want to be cheated. Ordinary players and average teams want it to be easy”
“Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.”
“Great players crave instruction on their weaknesses.”
“Great players inspire you. The best player I played with was Gervi (Gervinho)”
“Great players make great plays.”
“Great players never look in the mirror and think I'm a great basketball player. You ask yourself, Am I the best player I can be?”
“Great pleasures are much less frequent than great pains.”
Source: Essays and treatises on several subjects: essays, moral, political and literary
“Great poetry does not have to be technically intricate.”
“Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.”
“Great poetry must be admired, because it is great and because it is poetry, and so we admire it.”
Source: Ferdydurke
“Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.”
Source: The Story of My Life: With Her Letters (1887 1901) and a Supplementary Account of Her Education Including Passages from the Reports and Letters of Her Teacher Anne Mansfield Sullivan by John Albert Macy
“Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.”
Source: Free Opinions, Freely Expressed on Certain Phases of Modern Social Life and Conduct
“Great point made in son's college orientation re sex/safety/respect/etc: 'Consent is really too low a bar. Hold out for enthusiasm.'”
“Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.”
Source: Woman's Rights Tracts
“Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow,
And Scipio's ghost walks unavenged amongst us!”
“Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.”
“Great possessions and great want of them are both strong temptations.”
“Great posture is the foundation that always fits.”
Source: My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
“Great posture never goes out of style.”
Source: My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
“Great potential for emotional balance and mental flexibility can help us fight the bleakness and sterility of a statistical matrix that clashes with our inner compass's needs. ("What after bowling alone?" )”
“Great potential for personal empowerment can be found in attending to our awareness of global problems and to our understanding of how they connect with each other and with our personal lives. The process of naming the danger, saying aloud that the threats to life on earth are real, moves us from the numbness of denial to the aliveness that makes action possible.”
“Great power can come from memorizing scriptures. To memorize a scripture is to forge a new friendship. It is like discovering a new individual who can help in time of need, give inspiration and comfort, and be a source of motivation for needed change”
“Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.”
“Great power involves great responsibility”
“Great power often corrupts virtue; it invariably renders vice more malignant. . . . In proportion as the powers of government increase, both its own character and that of the people becomes worse.”
“Great power requires great character if it is to be a blessing and not a curse, and that character is something we only grow toward.”
Source: The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God
“Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors.”
“Great powers must be forever vigilant and never subordinate survival to any other goal, including prosperity.”
Source: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)
“Great Powers of falling wave and wind and windy fire,
With your harmonious choir
Encircle her I love and sing her into peace,
That my old care may cease.”
Source: The Major Works
“Great powers reserve the right to police bad actors in their neighborhoods.”
“Great praxis demands great piety.”
Source: Super, Natural Christians: How We Should Love Nature
“Great preachers and effective teachers have one thing in common; two for that matter, mastery of storytelling and expertise in mental picturing”
“Great presidents don't just fight good fights - they win them.”
“Great pressure is brought to bear to make us undervalue ourselves. On the other hand, civilization teaches that each of us is an inestimable prize. There are, then, these two preparations: one for life and the other for death. Therefore we value and are ashamed to value ourselves.”
Source: Novels, 1944-1953
“Great pressure is put on kids who don't have dads to get out and make money, and make life easier for everybody. It was always, 'Hurry up, grow up, make money, there's no man to do it for us.'”
“Great pressure was put on the editor, David Schneiderman, to not run the strip [of Jules Feiffer]. It was offensive. It was racist. And nobody apparently read the strip and saw what it was about. And I wrote a column about that.”
“Great principles, great ideals know no nationality.”
“Great privations and great illusions so change the nature of man that things which seemed before impossible, become possible, and the unattainable, attainable.”
Source: Penultimate Words, and Other Essays
“Great problem, greater opportunity. For climate change, Sustainability is the opportunity. But how?”
Source: SuaaS : Sustainability as-a-Service
“Great problems are now being handled, keeping every thinking man in suspense; the unity or multiplicity of human races; the creation of man 1,000 years or 1,000 centuries ago; the fixity of species, or the slow and progressive transformation of one species into another; the eternity of matter; the idea of a God unnecessary: such are some of the questions that humanity discusses nowadays.”
“Great problems that face the world today in both the private and the public sphere cannot be solved by women – or by men – alone. They can only be surmounted by men and women side by side.”
“Great products and brands are results of continuous improvement and dedication of those coworkers, who think beyond money as a motive but purpose.
One who is truly an inspiration and genius.”
“Great products are made on weekends.”
“Great products sell themselves.”
“Great programmers learn how to program their tools, not just use them.”
“Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to an arbitration court, treaties which not only specify the composition of the court, but also its procedure.”
“Great projects, like great careers and relationships that last, are gardens. They are tended, they shift, they grow. They endure over time, gaining a personality and reflecting their environment. When something dies or fades away, we prune, replant and grow again.”
“Great prose replenishes the language it’s written in...”
“Great quarterbacks, good quarterbacks, make plays.”
“Great question in science - questions like the ones Herschel raised about the structure of the universe - are seldom answered by ivory-tower types engaging in pure thought. They are answered by people who are willing to get down into the trenches and grapple with nature. If that means casting your own telescope mirrors, as Herschel did, so be it.”