Greatness quotes - page 42

... three main components of leadership: mastery of the subject-matter, ability convincingly to articulate the particular course of action required and a fervent belief in its correctness.
... three main components of leadership: mastery of the subject-matter, ability convincingly to articulate the particular course of action required and a fervent belief in its correctness.
 Ninian Stephen
It is not our ability that limits us but our view/belief of what we can achieve.
 John O'Callaghan
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.'' Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.
 Elisabeth Elliot
It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.
 Baruch Spinoza
We pay for content that we like, and we like the content we pay for. It's a lot more satisfying to pay $7.50 for Steven Spielberg's next epic than it is to watch my home movies for free. Even for me.
 Nathan Myhrvold
You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
We need to understand that being an accomplice or accessory to those who seek to enslave our posterity, is no better than being the folks that are locking the chains themselves.
 Matt Shea
Try to keep your mind open to possibilities and your mouth closed on matters that you don\'t know about. Limit your \'always\' and your \'nevers.\'
Try to keep your mind open to possibilities and your mouth closed on matters that you don't know about. Limit your 'always' and your 'nevers.'
 Amy Poehler
Never too old, never too bad, never too late, never too sick to start from scratch once again.
 Bikram Choudhury
There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.
Guitarists should be able to pick up the guitar and play music on it for an hour, without a rhythm section or anything.
 Joe Pass
Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.
 Franz Grillparzer
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
 Bruce Barton
My suggestion would be to walk away from the 90% who don't and join the 10% who do.
When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.
 Muriel Barbery
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
There is never one absolutely right thing to do. All you can do is honor what you believe, accept the consequences of your own actions, and make the best out of what happens.
There is never one absolutely right thing to do. All you can do is honor what you believe, accept the consequences of your own actions, and make the best out of what happens.
 Garth Nix
I enjoy acting when you really hit it right. And I guess I've always had too much fantasy to be only a housewife.