Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.
Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.
I’ve had great success being a total idiot.
The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul.
When I lost seven of my toes on Nanga Parbat and small parts of my fingertips I knew I’d never be a great rock climber. So I specialized in high-altitude climbing.
Strong convictions precede great actions.
I don’t believe in perfection. I don’t think there is such a thing. But the energy of wanting things to be great is a perfectionist energy.
I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
With great power comes great responsibility. These are platforms with hundreds of millions of people.
Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend.
It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn’t attacked us, it’s because he can’t or because we’ve defeated him.
Harbour Island in the Bahamas is a wonderful little island with beautiful beaches, a great restaurant culture and friendly, welcoming atmosphere.
You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well.
By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great and who as a result earns the power to influence others.
Brexit makes me uncomfortable. It feels like we’re in no-man’s-land, and it doesn’t feel safe. People who voted to leave did so because of the scaremongering. It was all about immigration, but immigration is a great thing.
The North Star has always been the same, which for us, is about making insanely great products that really change the world in some way – enrich people’s lives.
I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness.
A face is a road map of someone’s life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it, there’s a great deal that’s communicated about who this person is and what their life experiences have been.
When you want something so bad and when something great happens, I think it’s instinct that you say, ‘This is gonna be the moment that’s gonna change everything. Everybody is gonna see me a different way.’
The great gift of Easter is hope – Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.
The primary goal is to entertain people because… Fortunately, the kind of movies I have been doing have a certain message, they break taboos, and they are socially relevant. So it’s a great mix of content and entertainment.
