Greatness quotes - page 18
I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
John Cage
Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.
Mike Royko
A critical issue for women is the possibility to be a mother and the ability to participate fully in the workforce.
Erna Solberg
The bolder the action, the greater the genius, magic and power that is likely to flow from it.
Robert Ringer
Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.
Patrick Dempsey
When I moved to the United States [from Asia] in 2001, I experienced a more rigid concept of gender, but somehow I was allowed to change my name and my gender marker. Why is there that paradox? How do I get those two things to be the same?
Geena Rocero
I think it’d be a great honor to be able to influence someone’s joy.
CL
Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.
Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.
Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days... or a few months after childbirth.
Richard Codey
We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?
The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power.
Your mother was a goatherder. (Savitar) It’s an honorable profession. (Takeshi) Yeah, for a goat. (Savitar)
I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.
Richard Linklater
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Tim Blixseth
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
Greatness exists like an ocean within you. Why do you want to act like a fish out of water, wriggling on the sand under the scorching sun? Look! The water is just one millimeter away! Jump in!
Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
