- Nov 07, 2020
Great Quotes
Quotes on great moments and discoveries.
These quotes use 'great' to describe very different things - a lifelong search for spiritual mystery, nostalgic memories of finding great music collections while living abroad, and an honest mix of great and difficult experiences tied to identity and pride. Related reading: Good Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Depending
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- Nov 07, 2020
On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live in. We tend to become good or bad depending on the cues sent out within a particular space.
- Communication
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
- Challenges
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- Nov 07, 2020
Emotional life is - alongside work - one of the great challenges of existence and is a theme that I keep returning to.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of a book that can make a change to your life, that can affect your perspective, is a beautiful and great ambition: one that Seneca, Nietzsche and Tolstoy would have sympathised with.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's great to get an 'F', but you also want to give the sense that there's something outside achievement. I've seen a lot of so-called high-achievers who don't feel they've achieved much.
- Challenges
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- Nov 07, 2020
Young people encounter great challenges at the beginning of their careers.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
To make my meal, I go to the market and to the garden, and then I decide what I'm going to do. That's a great pleasure.
- Civilisation
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is impossible to remain indifferent to Japanese culture. It is a different civilisation where all you have learnt must be forgotten. It is a great intellectual challenge and a gorgeous sensual experience.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can't.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn't sing in tune at the time. I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don't exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read science, because to me, that's extremely exciting. It's like a great detective story, and it's happening right in front of us.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a painter. There was a lot of singing. We hung around with a lot of folk musicians. My family knew a lot of great folk musicians of the time, like Woody Guthrie, Paul Robeson, Leadbelly. They were all people we knew.
- Landscape
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- Nov 07, 2020
There has been much talk referencing what I consider conceptual reports like the Landscape of Choice and documents created as a result of the Great Valley Center.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character's sexuality is fascinating. It's a great way to really get at the root of their identity, because it's such a personal thing.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020