The great leaders are like the best conductors – they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
We want to do a lot of stuff; we’re not in great shape. We didn’t get a good night’s sleep. We’re a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.
I love getting anything homemade – anything that’s from the heart. If you can make or craft your own something, that always goes above and beyond, like, a candle – which is great, but if it’s homemade, that’s so much better for me.
I love going to the beach and swimming in the ocean. I think it’s so relaxing. It’s also a great form of active recovery. It’s perfect for those rest days when you still want to move a little bit.
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities – brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.
The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine.
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It’s the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
We don’t sell a car, we sell a dream. We are Italy’s national team. There are many great soccer teams in our country, but there is only one Ferrari.
Success doesn’t necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won’t win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.
There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that’s what is unique about them.
Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.
To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. ‘What! no soap?’ So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber.
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.
Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.
I think that any time of great pain is a time of transformation, a fertile time to plant new seeds.
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
