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A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.
Confucius
A distinguished individual holds themselves to a high standard; an insignificant individual is harsh on others.
2.
People who accomplish a great many things are people who have freed themselves from biases. These are the creative people.
Milton H. Erickson
Those who have achieved much are those who have liberated themselves from preconceptions. These are the imaginative ones.
3.
Behind every great man is not a woman, she is beside him, she is with him, not behind him
Tariq Ramadan
4.
Instead of focusing on the great men of God, I prefer to focus on the Great God of men.
John Wimber
6.
A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
Robert Burns
8.
I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable
Alfred Lansing
11.
she smiled at him, and at her own fears.
Leo Tolstoy
12.
Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.
Aristotle
14.
The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person's trigger.
Marcus Buckingham
15.
In success be moderate. Humility makes great men twice honourable.
Benjamin Franklin
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God will put up with a great many things in the human heart, but there is one thing that He will not put up with in it--a second place. He who offers God a second place, offers Him no place.
John Ruskin
18.
I was once asked what it takes to be a great manager...my response? Great players.
Casey Stengel
20.
I can assure you, that once you get rid of the notion of art, you acquire a great many wonderful new freedoms.
Jean Tinguely
21.
In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admire tremendously, in particular women of color.
Catharine MacKinnon
22.
There we were, hundreds of us lined up, waving at the great man as he tipped his hat to us. And that is the extent of my acquaintance with Albert Einstein.
Gregory Peck
23.
Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
Idries Shah
24.
There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye.
Frank Gehry
25.
I have been called a great many things in my time – that's politics.
Nigel Farage
26.
If you have a great manager, you want to pay him very well.
Warren Buffett
27.
Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
Victor Hugo
29.
The great man is sparing in words but prodigal in deeds.
Confucius
30.
It's always the same: mediocrities are over-valued and great men are rejected.
Anton Webern
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Meaning makes a great many things endurable---per haps everything.
Carl Jung
32.
For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.
Albert Schweitzer
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Knowledge is like the carrot, few know by looking at the green top that the best part, the orange part, is there. Like the carrot, if you don't work for it, it will wither away and rot. And finally, like the carrot, there are a great many donkeys and jackasses that are associated with it.
Nasreddin
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Who knows what will happen or where I will be sent, yet already I have given a great many things away, expecting to be told to pack nothing, except the prayers which, with this thirst, I am slowly learning.
Mary Oliver
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Meaninglessnes s inhibits fullness of life and is therefore the equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perh aps everything.
Carl Jung
37.
As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well.
Caroline Gordon
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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
Woodrow Wilson
40.
I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years
Julian Bond
41.
All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent.
Zig Ziglar
45.
A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.
Barbara Deming
46.
Publishing companies and a great many authors have missed the opportunity to capitalize on the very real relationships they create with their readers.
Vantile Whitfield
48.
The nearer we approach great men, the clearer we see that they are men.
Jean de la Bruyere
50.
Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And so English comes in a great many varieties, and black English is one of them.
John H. McWhorter