Top 100 All Great Quotes
#1. All great art is born of the metropolis.
Ezra Pound
#4. All great inventions emerge from a long sequence of small sparks; the first idea often isn't all that good, but thanks to collaboration it later sparks another idea, or it's reinterpreted in an unexpected way. Collaboration brings small sparks together to generate breakthrough innovation.
Scott Belsky
#5. All great political families have myths: stories they tell themselves about how history happened.
Peggy Noonan
#6. I think all great actors - and I don't classify myself as one of them, incidentally - but I think all great actors listen well and I've learned that from a lot of the very good actors with whom I've worked - to really listen to what people say.
John Frankenheimer
#7. All great and famous people understand that the chief priority in their life is to discover oneself, ones calling and to devote one's life to its fulfilment
Sunday Adelaja
#8. Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it such a relief to have somebody say that?
Kurt Vonnegut
#9. All great men and women had experienced times of wilderness,these moments precedes the dawn of self awakening, greatest potential and success.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#10. All great art originates from the innocent child within us expressing itself through the wisdom, experience and skill of an adult.
Richard Schmid
#11. All great writers share one thing in common:
They finished their books.
M. Kirin
#12. All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
Nancy Gibbs
#13. All great truths begin as blasphemy. Every single revolutionary idea that has ever been visited upon the human experience began as an idea which was rejected.
Neale Donald Walsch
#15. The original of all great and lasting societies consisted not in the mutual good will men had toward each other, but in the mutual fear they had of each other.
Thomas Hobbes
#16. Laugh if you will ... They laughed at all great ideas and inventions. They laughed at nitrous oxide.
John Sladek
#17. Probably a mistake, you know, that people make in America, to think that all great chefs are a male ... I'm still the only male in the family who went into that business.
Jacques Pepin
#18. Like all great fantasists, he has taught me about life, life in eternity rather than chronology, life in that time in which we are real.
Madeleine L'Engle
#19. It's rather like your voice. You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts. It's what distinguishes all great art from the other kind.
John Fowles
#20. Parkinson's is my toughest fight. No, it doesn't hurt. It's hard to explain. I'm being tested to see if I'll keep praying, to see if I'll keep my faith. All great people are tested by God
Muhammad Ali
#23. I maintain that all great men or even men a little out of the common, that is to say capable of giving some new word, must from their very nature be criminals - more or less, of course.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#24. Never pose your subjects. Let them move about naturally ... All great photographs today are snapshots.
Martin Munkacsi
#25. All great people had experienced dark times and moments of doubt but they find inner strength to overcome these difficulties. Persistent determination and enthusiasm fuel the hope within their spirit to press forward for the ultimate aim of achieving the goals they have set for themselves.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#28. Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.
Benjamin Disraeli
#29. Like all great rationalists you believed in things that were twice as incredible as theology.
Halldor Laxness
#30. In the last analysis, provincialism is your belief in yourself, in your neighborhood, in your reality. It is patriotism without belligerence. Convincing cases have been made to show that all great art is provincial in the sense of reflecting a place, a time, and a Zeitgeist.
Richard M. Weaver
#31. All great achievements have one thing in common - people with a passion to succeed
Pat Cash
#32. Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great.
Ikue Mori
#33. He loves deep ... hates hard, ever'thing's that killed what he loves. All great warriors are sich men.
Forrest Carter
#34. The main concern of all great religions has been to fight a certain weariness and heaviness grown to epidemic proportions.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#35. Don't confuse correlation and causation. Almost all great records eventually dwindle ...
Charlie Munger
#36. Do not all great men and women have a few birds in their head?
Edward Stanton
#37. Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.
John Ruskin
#38. Lying for lying's sake is the inspiration behind all great fiction.
Marty Rubin
#39. All great artists know that part of their task is to light up the distance between two human beings.
Nadeem Aslam
#41. All great beginnings start in the dark, when the moon greets you to a new day at midnight.
Shannon L. Alder
#42. All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#43. All great power has to do to destroy itself is persist in trying to do the impossible.
Stephen Vizinczey
#44. All great programmers learn the same way. They poke the box. They code something and see what the computer does. They change it and see what the computer does. They repeat the process again and again until they figure out how the box works.
Seth Godin
#46. All great reality shows have a very, very similar format. That's why it was so easy to parody.
Cat Deeley
#47. Practically all great artists accept the influence of others. But ... the artist with vision sees his material, chooses, changes, and by integrating what he has learned with his own experiences, finally molds something distinctly personnel.
Romare Bearden
#48. I would predicate that in all great works of genius masculine and feminine elements in the personality find expression, whether this androgynous nature is played out sexually or not.
May Sarton
#49. Deepak Chopra once said: "All great changes are preceded by chaos.
Alessandra Torre
#50. Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to new conditions, new methods, new points of view. It is as though people would rather die than change.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#51. Love is the driver for all great stories: not just romantic love, but the love of parent for child, for family, for country.
Jojo Moyes
#52. The mindset, vision, competency, capability, culture and marketing opportunity are all great starting point for business model innovation.
Pearl Zhu
#54. All great soul-winners have been men of much and mighty prayer, and all great revivals have been preceded and carried out by persevering, prevailing knee-work in the closet.
Samuel Logan Brengle
#55. All great men pay some price for their dreams, but cowards remain in debt to fear.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#57. Evidently one cannot look for long at the Last Supper without ceasing to study it as a composition, and beginning to speak of it as a drama. It is the most literary of all great pictures, one of the few of which the effect may largely be conveyed - can even be enhanced - by description.
Kenneth Clark
#59. What all disciplines have in common is a search for rules and a commitment to them. And what all great learners have is a deep appreciation for finding better rules and a commitment to keeping them. That is why great learners are careful about what commitments they make and then keeping them.
Henry B. Eyring
#60. All great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ungracious and indelicate as generals, because they are confident of their impunity.
Anton Chekhov
#61. The past doesn't equal the future.
All great leaders, all people who have achieved in any area of life,
know the power of continuously pursuing their vision,
even if all the details of how to achieve it aren't yet available
Tony Robbins
#62. All great art is almost never received well initially; don't quit before the world opens its eyes.
Gregor Collins
#63. The raw beauty of Natalia Ginzburg's prose compels our gaze. First we look inward, with the shock of recognition inspired by all great writing, and then, inevitably, out at the shared world she evokes with such uncompromising clarity.
Hilma Wolitzer
#64. Great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead.
Helen Hunt Jackson
#67. All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.
John Adams
#68. All great people glorify their history and look back upon their early attainments with a spiritualized vision.
Kelly Miller
#69. Now, I do say, "It's possible. You might be the first. I'm not saying it's impossible, but the odds are very much against you." All great poets have been great readers and the way to learn your craft in poetry is by reading other poetry and by letting it guide you.
Edward Hirsch
#70. I already have Tangled Webs and Blood throughout the night out. look out for Night of the Beast all great reads.
Bobby Rodgers
#71. All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
John Ruskin
#72. The so-called 'discoveries' of the Impressionists could not have been unknown to the old masters; and if they made no use of them, it was because all great artists have renounced the use of effects. And in simplifying nature, they made it all the greater.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#73. A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
Orison Swett Marden
#74. Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities, ... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous with the beauty of his soul, he who was so madly in love with beauty.
Michel De Montaigne
#75. Understanding is a pure glass of water. All great truths have no taste. Hints of sweetness are coloured by the need for amazement.
Ben Okri
#76. To be able to make a good living in a challenging medium like soap operas is great. The best is that I get to act and am rewarded for it. And the people I work with are great. Funny, intelligent, hard working. They're all great to be around.
David Canary
#77. Almost all great fortunes are based upon one cracking good idea and the guts to go with it
Frederick Forsyth
#78. All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.
Charles J. Shields
#79. Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. All great men of letters have therefore been enthusiastic walkers.
Leslie Stephen
#80. Perhaps all great loves are that, a secret that can't be shared.
Joe Haldeman
#81. Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.
Swami Vivekananda
#82. All great adventures have moments that are really crap.
Ellen Potter
#83. Like all great adventures, this one started with someone trying to get laid. King Menelaus didn't go to Troy for the baklava.
Mark Leiren-Young
#84. People are clever, but almost no one ever devises an optimal quip precisely at the needed moment. Therefore, virtually all great one-liners are later inventions - words that people wished they had spouted, but failed to manufacture at the truly opportune instant.
Stephen Jay Gould
#86. Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.
Malorie Blackman
#87. Sirio Maccioni is the perfect Maestro. He does it all: great food, great entertainment, and always with a room full of the best people. He's the only person I could ever imagine going into the restaurant business with!
Donald Trump
#88. Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?"
Macbeth
William Shakespeare
#89. I used to think that all great recordings happened at about 3 A.M.
Tom Waits
#90. I think the biggest mistake anyone can make is trying to be the next someone, and try to mimic or copy someone who is already out there because you have to produce your own personality and your own sound, and go from there. That is something all great broadcasters have been able to do.
Joe Bowen
#91. Change is the catalyst of life and, likewise, the catalyst for all great work.
David Sturt
#92. It is a pity that no one in Paris bothered to quote Coleridge, who wrote, long before cubism, that the true poet is able to reduce 'succession to an instant.' Simultaneity in this sense is the property of all great poetry.
LeRoy C. Breunig
#93. Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.
Elbert Hubbard
#94. As with all great works of literature, 'Of Mice and Men' moves with the inexorability of a huge river, and it pours itself, exhausts itself, in the sea of our unconscious. Having read it, we carry the book inside us forever.
Jay Parini
#95. All great ideas should be followed by an exclamation mark - a warning signal similar to the skull and crossbones drawn on high-voltage transformers.
Emile M. Cioran
#96. The truth is that all great men have had great mothers. Great women have had, as a rule, great fathers.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#97. All great art commences with a vision, and perhaps it may be that the vision is closer to God than that which is ultimately created by the artist's brush. There will always be human flaws in the execution. Only in the mind can the artist achieve true perfection.
John Connolly
#98. Remember that the subconscious mind has determined the success and wonderful achievements of all great scientific workers.
Joseph Murphy
#99. She has that quality, does the Hudson, as I imagine all great rivers do: the deep, abiding sense that those activities what take place on shore among human beings are of the moment, passing, and aren't the stories by way of which the greater tale of this planet will, in the end, be told.
Caleb Carr
#100. Enthusiasm ... the sustaining power of all great action.
Samuel Smiles
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