Quotes of: Great-discovery Keyword

I've been collecting art for much of my adult life. I started around 1960. And my wife and I really enjoy art a great deal. We don't have a lot of money, so we have works on paper, but we enjoy them a great deal.

Eric Kandel

You are only an actor if you absolutely love it and can not do anything else. Starving for your art is great in your 20s, but it's not so great at 35. It has to be absolute love. You can't worry about being a movie star or anything else. Just love. T...

James Avery

Against expectations I was charmed by Gehry's Edgemar development, which housed the Santa Monica Museum of Art, and positively awed by the Bilbao Guggenheim. That Gehry is a great artist I have no doubt, but talent and determination are no warrant ag...

Leon Krier

You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not receiv...

Octavia Spencer

I can consider not only great art, but the context in which that art has been created. I can consider the people who paid a price for that art to be created and whether or not I want to appreciate that art on their backs.

Roxane Gay

You're either growing or dying. Stagnation does not exist in the universe.

177 Mental Toughness Secrets of the World Class: The Thought Processes, Habits and Philosophies of the Great Ones

No one deserves to rent your heart, especially those who hurt you. Your heart is precious and deserves to store your great memories!

The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership

I always like to be in the presence of people who are good at and love their jobs, Irrespective of their jobs.

Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush

If you help them (the crew) create good memories, they'll forget all the bad stuff

Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush

There was something very American about this ability to dwell constantly in the realm of the improvable superlative.

Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush

People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.

Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

The profound paradox is that the great man became more confident in his approach to others, including the man of his own Cabinet, but he recognized that his major confidence was not himself but in Another.

Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

We will be happy if we can get around to the idea that art is not an outside and extra thing; that it is a natural outcome of a state of being; that the state of being is the important thing; that a man can be a carpenter and be a great man.

The Art Spirit

You can either feed negative thoughts or you can starve the suckers.

Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage

Those who don't take themselves too seriously have marriages that seem to just be better.

Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage

Making love is not equivalent to love. But not making love is most certainly a waste. We didn't want to be wasteful.

Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage

Hundreds of young barefoot, long-haired, newly converted believers flocked to the church, and they brought their guitars with them.

The Story of Our Songs: Drawing Strength from the Great Hymns of Our Faith

We know we are a species obsessed with itself and its own past and origins. We know we are capable of removing from the sanctuary of the earth shards and fragments, and gently placing them in museums. Great museums in great cities—the hallmarks of ...

Sightlines

Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling amidst the conditions of an imperfect social state, in which great feelings will often take the aspect of error, a...

Middlemarch

You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that. Great men, but men. The Machine is much, but not everything.

The Machine Stops

No, I don't admire the genius. But I admire and love the result of the genius's activity in the world, of which the great man is only the poor necessary tool, only, so to speak, the paltry awl to bore with.

Mysteries