Taking time to sit back and watch and think about what you’ve seen is important. Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.
The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
As we learned after President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley tariff at the outset of the Great Depression, vibrant international trade is a key component to economic recovery; hindering trade is a recipe for disaster.
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!
You’ve gotta believe in yourself, and you just have to work harder at it than you’ve ever worked at anything before in your life. And if you keep doing that and keep believing in yourself, great things do happen.
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
An understanding of the natural world and what’s in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.
Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they’re tender. They have to be persistent.
Forensic science offers great potential, as it draws on almost every discipline and, in doing so, creates widespread opportunity for innovation.
I make about two movies a year outside the ‘True Blood’ schedule. I work on a great show six months a year, then outside that I get to satisfy whatever creative urges I have. It’s a great position, especially for a single guy like me.
‘Crazy-busy’ is a great armor, it’s a great way for numbing. What a lot of us do is that we stay so busy, and so out in front of our life, that the truth of how we’re feeling and what we really need can’t catch up with us.
Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.
All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
My view is that Trump will not change the Republican Party, America’s right-of-center party. If he brings in new followers, that’s great, and well worth the effort, but he will not change the Republican Party.
Great companies are built in the office, with hard work put in by a team.
America had been a boom-and-bust economy going into the Great Depression – just over and over and over, fortunes were wiped out, ordinary families were crushed under it.
I have Chinese blood in me… I am not ashamed to admit that perhaps the great leaders of our country all have Chinese blood.
World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.
For my part, I am not a great believer in bad luck on the cricket field, in business – in fact, in any walk of life.
The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.
Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
