Great Quotes

The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.

The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.

It is my greatest joy to live a really good part, even though it imposes great strain. An artist is tired but proud when he has created a great work of art. So it is with the actor who really lives a great role and is proud of the part he played.

After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.

I think all the knowledge and all the travels that I've done, I'm going to do a lot of great work in the future.

Finally, I also come in recognition of the great work that has been undertaken by the NGOs and UN agencies that have been active for many years here, especially through the local staff and international staff here in Somaliland and in Somalia at large.

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

But James Gandolfini and Edie Falco, they did such great work, especially in the last show.

Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist.

A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.

All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War.

Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.

The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War started I was too old to be acceptable as a volunteer; when conscription followed I was too old to be conscripted.

We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would have held.

The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.

General Sherman looked upon journalists as a nuisance and a danger at headquarters and in the field, and acted toward them accordingly, then as throughout his great war career.

The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.

In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or eight? We ourselves know not.

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

Stephen Sondheim told me that Oscar Hammerstein believed everything that he wrote. So there's great truth in the songs, and that's what was so wonderful to find.

I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that.

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.