Related Quotes
greatness men mind
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds. Charles Caleb Colton
greatness deserving-it mind
Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.
greatness men
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
greatness men too-much
Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.
great-expectations secret tears
The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away. Charles Dickens
great-expectations strange melancholy
So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...
great-expectations may done
But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
great-expectations may let-me
Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
greatness excellence littles
True greatness consists in being great in little things. Charles Simmons
jobs words-of-wisdom deception
"There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones."
jobs character air
"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."
jobs reading years
I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead! Charles Stross
jobs reading writing
What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.
jobs moving careers
It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are. Alan Watts
jobs film hard
Film-making is a physically hard job. Alan Parker
jobs asking way
I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available. Alan Patricof
jobs two together
One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right. Alan Rickman
jobs home feet
I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.
picks
You don’t get to pick where you’re from, but you always have control of where you’re going. Chris Colfer
pick practice
We have to get focused. This was pretty much a practice game. Now we have to pick it up and play really hard. Jessie Coiffard
pick reason
We're going to have to (wait). There's no reason to pick one right now. It's not clear-cut enough to say one's better than the other.
pickles
Squeamish stomachs cannot eat without pickles. Benjamin Franklin
pick time
We're battling, and that's all you can do. This time of year, you can't make any trades, you can't pick up anybody. You have your team. This is what you do. You go play. Gary Williams
pick vegas
Vegas is going to pick up, too, ... If you want to party, everything's there restaurants, gaming.
pick stop trying
making excuses. Why don't they let the inspectors do their job? Stop making excuses, stop trying to politicize the operation, stop trying to pick the inspectors.
pickles information internet
Turns out, theres not a lot of information about pickles on the Internet. Brian Posehn
picked
Ah... romance to me is spontaneity. It's not diamond earrings; it's a bunch of daffodils that's freshly picked from the field. Kate Winslet
throwers my-own
I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history. Al Oerter
throw
When you throw strikes, they are going to get hits.
throwing good-success backing-up
I've had pretty good success with Stan (Musial) by throwing him my best pitch and backing up third. Carl Erskine
throw time
When I throw a softball, there's no time to think about the motion of my arm. I just look at the first baseman's glove and react. Keegan Bradley
throws youth
What the young one begs for, the grown-up throws away
throw trying win
We know we're not out there trying to throw games. If we were really trying to lose, how did we win this one? Andre Johnson
throwing
She (Ronk) is doing the job. She's throwing hard.
thrown
Even the best of us are thrown off some- times. Arthur Conan Doyle
throwing vehicles
There are vehicles tossed hither and yon just like throwing pick-up sticks, George Johnson