Great Quotes

Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.

The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people.

Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

Just the actual physical ability to hold four instruments simultaneously and do some of the things that Vivien was able to do is mind blowing to any surgeon. He never went to medical school and he became one of the great teachers of medicine himself, people are just amazed.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model.

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

I was trying to uphold what I thought feminism was as best I could by supporting women, by trying to create an opportunity to get women to get together, play music together and celebrate the fact that we are having great success making music on our own and together.

I'm glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this great success. It was a blast and we had a lot of laughs. And it was just an amazing time. They passed away. And then after I got, you know, famous, all these haters came out of nowhere.

But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.

I've had great success being a total idiot.

If you want to have great success, you'd better give them what they want, but so be it.

Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.

It is not that I don't like contemporary country music because I do. I love it. I have recorded a lot and have had great success recording records that have not been very traditional country records.

When people stand up and talk about the great success that the EU has been, I'm not sure anybody saying it really believes it themselves anymore.

I didn't inherit any great success and the problems that came with it, and yet I was able to keep working and supporting myself and later a family. I'm crazy fortunate.

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

I may not have proved a great explorer, but we have done the greatest march ever made and come very near to great success.

Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.

Directors, like actors, get typecast. And because I've had great success with comedy and horror and TV shows, that's basically what I'm kind of offered.

I was lucky to have my wife as the art director, and it turned out to be quite something - a great success. I'm very proud of it.

I don't think I've had any great success in predicting politics or social change, nor have I really tried.

No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.

I think if you want to become a great football player, professional, you must give all the time one hundred percent, you must work hard - to be lucky is a good thing - but if you work hard and you give everything you will have great success.

Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.

If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

At the end of my life, is it better to say that I empowered people to make great stuff, or that I died with a net worth of $10 billion? Obviously I'm picking the former, although I would not mind both.