But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist.
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person's trigger.
I have worked for a lot of really great leaders and mentors that I felt provided me, along with many of my peers - many of them women - opportunities.
I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times.
We see great growth in the United States. But also in China, Brazil, the U.K., and other markets around the world. So ecommerce is going to continue to be a great story for Walmart.
While shooting 'The Unit', I went to the Middle East twice to see the troops. I met some great men and women.
Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. It's always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.
I still read scripts, and if something great comes along, that's great... but this is my day job. The Row is where I go every day.
I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.
I'm out here to represent the gingers, the gypsies, and the outcasts. Because I am all of the above, and I'm all about having a great time.
One of the great things about the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner, which my company iRobot designed, is that it's too cheap not to be autonomous.
I gave Joss Whedon and Judd Apatow their first writing jobs, as well as many other untried writers who went on to great success.
A financial crisis is a great time for professional investors and a horrible time for average ones.
Matthew Lowe is one of the great water men that I know. He's a surfer, a great water polo player. I think he's half fish.
If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that's a great reason for elected officials to not talk about it. And that's a great way to shirk accountability for it with the public.
'The Hollywood Reporter' was always in. You always got great tables. You always got great seats at screenings. You always got treated well if you were at the paper.
I honed in on a great time, the Motown era, the '60s and '70s. That type of music has always been a staple in my life.
I've done great theatre, great films and had a lot of opportunities in television. I also love to sing, and I've been able to do that once or twice in the television shows.
The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact of the matter is that none of us remember the Depression firsthand.
Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.
