Great
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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work. Few things will make you feel better than a job brilliantly done.
If four things are followed — having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance — then anything can be achieved.
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.
To be a great motorbike racer, the most important thing is passion for the bike.
I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him I'm nothing and I thank him for his great blessing.
I'm proud of myself. I could break and go get all this plastic surgery and get my nose fixed and get lipo or do whatever, but I haven't chosen to do that because I know I'm a great person. I'm pretty damn hot, if you ask me.
I'm always like, 'Well, let's not rest on a critical acclaim or on a incredible review or on a great reception'.
One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me I'd be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours from Melbourne to Sydney for the Centenary Test, a once-in-a-lifetime commemorative cricket match. It was great fun — especially for a kid who was a massive sports fan.
We will be protected by the great men and women of our military and law enforcement and, most importantly, we are protected by God.
There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great books for children are works of genius, whether it's 'Alice in Wonderland' or the 'Gruffalo' or 'Northern Lights'. When it's a great book, it's a great book, whether it's for children or not.
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
It sometimes seems easier to trace the great general laws of God's government in the passage of events far from us than in those close around us. We see the shape of those far-off constellations, but we cannot group or set in order that to which our own sun belongs.
I try not to look too far ahead. I'm more about living day to day and working hard. I think it's great to visualize a dream, but it's more important to make it come true with your efforts.
Civil engineers build bridges. Electrical engineers, power grids. Software engineers, apps. From the engineers who created the Great Pyramids to the engineers who are designing and developing tomorrow's autonomous vehicles, these visionaries and their tangible creations are inextricably linked.
Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
The message of great art is to disturb.
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
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