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“In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.”

People Way Trying Art Certain Levels Greatness Built Supreme Translate Symmetry Interconnected

Author:Frank Ocean

“I know I'm capable of greatness, and I'm expecting to reach that level.”

Knows Levels Greatness Capable Nfl Expecting

Author:Aaron Rodgers

“It is by no means necessary that a great nation should always stand at the heroic level. But no nation has the root of greatness in it unless in time of need it can rise to the heroic mood.”

Needs Should Mean Nations Levels Greatness Roots Mood Heroic Great Nations Time Of Need

Book:Fear God and Take Your Own Part

Source: Fear God and Take Your Own Part

“For I think it is the case with genius that it is not when quiescent so very much above mediocrity as the difference between the two might lead us to think, but that it has the power and privilege of rising from that level to a height utterly far from mediocrity: in other words that its greatness is that it can be so great.”

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Book:Gerard Manley Hopkins: poetry and prose

Source: Gerard Manley Hopkins: poetry and prose

“a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level; and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their own.”

People Moments Levels Greatness Hero Raises Great Moments

Author:Margaret Deland

“people who personify the system are indeed well known for not being what they seem to be; they have achieved greatness by embracing a level of reality lower than that of the most insignificant individual life- and everyone knows it.”

People Knows Life Wells Reality Seems Individual Levels Known Greatness Well Known Insignificant Individual Life

Book:The Society of the Spectacle

Source: The Society of the Spectacle

“Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by men, and contradict themselves by their own feelings--their nature, which is stronger than all, convincing them of the greatness of man more forcibly than reason convinces them of his baseness.”

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Author:Blaise Pascal

“Real greatness comes from that sort of spontaneity of the moment that takes it into another level. That can never be planned; it happens or it doesn't. And you can't force it.”

Real Moments Happens Force Levels Greatness Spontaneity

Author:Malcolm McDowell

“To really achieve any level of greatness, you have to be willing to say yes no matter who says no, and to say no no matter who says yes.”

Matter Levels Achieve Greatness Willing

Author:Sharon Stone

“The one thing about basketball is that it continues to evolve and I love it so much. It does so much for me in my life. I've played on every level and I've been fortunate enough to be around greatness on every level.”

Doe Enough Levels One Thing Greatness Basketball Evolve Fortunate

Author:Jalen Rose

“It is of dangerous consequence to represent to man how near he is to the level of beasts, without showing him at the same time his greatness. It is likewise dangerous to let him see his greatness without his meanness. It is more dangerous yet to leave him ignorant of either; but very beneficial that he should be made sensible of both.”

Men Should Made Levels Dangerous Greatness Consequence Ignorant Beast Sensible Manhood Beneficial Meanness

Author:Blaise Pascal

“To become a chess grandmaster also seems to take about ten years. (Only the legendary Bobby Fisher got to that elite level in less than that amount of time: it took him nine years.) And what's ten years? Well, it's roughly how long it takes to put in ten thousand hours of hard practice. Ten thousand hours is the magic number of greatness.”

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Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“No one achieves greatness by becoming a generalist. You don't hone a skill by diluting your attention to its development. The only way to get to the next level is focus.”

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Book:Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work

Source: Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work