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I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me.
— Thomas Keller
It's great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.
— Pamela Anderson
Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine.
— James J. Hill
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Not only are pasta dishes delicious, but they are also great, easy options for a quick dinner during a busy weekday.
— Marcus Samuelsson
Great teaching requires incredible talent and dedication, strong intellectual ability and interpersonal skill, real discipline and empathy.
— Bruce Rauner
There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.
— Nido Qubein
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
— Elbert Hubbard
If you want to be remembered as great, if you want to be a legend, you have to go out there every single day and do stuff.
— J. J. Watt
I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.
— Huey Newton
Tradition is the great misleader because it's too easy to follow what has already been done - even though you may think you're giving it a kick. I was really trying to invent, instead of merely expressing myself.
— Marcel Duchamp
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
— H. G. Wells
The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
— John Ruskin
Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written and to write what is worthy of being read. 
— Ross Perot
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
— John Adams
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Success has always been a great liar.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Blogging is a great way to show your talents and interests to prospective employers, while adding an edge to your resume. If you blog consistently it shows your dedication, passions and creativity - all of which are key attributes employers look for in job candidates.
— Lauren Conrad
The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.
— David Foster Wallace
You learn their honesty, you learn their competitiveness. You learn a lot about a person. It's not that they have to sink the putt and there's a great deal of talent involved - but you do learn about how competitive a person is on the golf course, and frankly, how honest.
— Donald Trump
Volunteering is a great way to look outside your own problems. Giving back to makes you happier by both giving you a sense of purpose and helping to put your problems in perspective.
— Karen Salmansohn
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
— Fran Lebowitz
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
— Henry David Thoreau
I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.
— Wernher von Braun
Great leaders communicate a vision that captures the imagination and fires the hearts and minds of those around them.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
Great lives never go out they go on. 
— Benjamin Harrison
It's always great to get to do what you love and to do something that hopefully people will see and love.
— Casey Wilson
An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
A successful entrepreneur can't be afraid of failures or setbacks. An initial setback can be a great opportunity to take a new and more promising approach to any problem, to come back stronger than ever.
— John Roos
My favorite foods are things that aren't great to eat, like pizza.
— Stephen Pagliuca
We've had great successes, but our future is not about our past success. It's going to be about whether we will invent things that are really going to drive our future.
— Satya Nadella
All great empires die from within.
— Terry Bradshaw
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
— Soren Kierkegaard
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
— Homer
Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.
— Martha Stewart
Great ideology creates great times.
— Kim Jong Il
In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.
— Wade Boggs
Skateboarding helps a ton with balance, precision, with air awareness... it gets your senses to be spot-on and it's also a great way to take my mind off things.
— Shaun White
Some people have a mistaken idea that all thoughts disappear through meditation and we enter a state of blankness. There certainly are times of great tranquility when concentration is strong and we have few, if any, thoughts. But other times, we can be flooded with memories, plans or random thinking. It's important not to blame yourself.
— Sharon Salzberg
Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
We say arts education is good for general education, but that's not the point. The arts are what great nations are remembered for. They are a mirror.
— Damian Woetzel
All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
— Lao Tzu
For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
For me, it's a great thing to tell people anything is possible. When I was 15, people told me 'You're not going to be a DJ.'
— Afrojack
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
— Winston Churchill
A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.
— Albert Pike
It was great. I mean, it's a blast directing underwater stuff.
— David R. Ellis
The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man.
— Louis Farrakhan
Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed... Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.
— Henry David Thoreau
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
— Phillips Brooks
We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and our great challenge to fight the voices of division and seek the salve of reconciliation.
— Roy Barnes
Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
— Denis Diderot
It is of great importance to our country generally, and especially to our navigating and whaling interests, that the Pacific Coast and, indeed, the whole of our territory west of the Rocky Mountains, should speedily be filled up by a hardy and patriotic population.
— James K. Polk
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
— Lee Iacocca
The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.
— Don Rickles
I do what I do. You like it, great. You don't, go listen to somebody else. I'm stickin' with the people who stuck with me.
— Ice Cube
If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.
— John Lasseter
Great leaders help their people see how they can directly impact the company's objectives and their own personal goals.
— Chip Conley
I had great relationship with the Hispanic - we had a lot of Hispanics in the school actually from different countries, Venezuela, from Brazil, and they all played soccer, and I was on the soccer team, and I developed great relationships with them.
— Donald Trump
The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.
— Harry S Truman
Magic touches people in the way great art does. It lets them see the world with new eyes.
— Drummond Money-Coutts
Being pampered is great, but sometimes I like to do those things myself because it's a little therapeutic and gives me some downtime for myself - and I need that.
— Annie Ilonzeh
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.
— Leonard Bernstein
I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films as a party I had somehow managed to miss.
— Hugh Hefner
Love of glory can only create a great hero contempt of glory creates a great man. 
— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.
— Charles Dickens
There would be no great men if there were no little ones.
— George Herbert
Great things are won by great dangers.
— Herodotus
He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little he who would achieve much must sacrifice much he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly. 
— James Allen
For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
The greater the effort, the greater the glory.
— Pierre Corneille
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
— Zhuangzi
And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking, innovative, risk-taking, God- loving, family-oriented American people.
— Mitt Romney
We grow small trying to be great.
— E. Stanley Jones
I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
— Ronald Reagan
During the Great Depression, levels of crime actually dropped. During the 1920s, when life was free and easy, so was crime. During the 1930s, when the entire American economy fell into a government-owned alligator moat, crime was nearly non-existent. During the 1950s and 1960s, when the economy was excellent, crime rose again.
— Ben Shapiro
What makes America great is that we can come together during times of national tragedy.
— Dennis Hastert
Miami is one of these great places that is a really sensual, physically beautiful place.
— Michael Mann
I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that, and I think it's important to keep that part of staying young. But I also think it's great fun growing old.
— Johnny Depp
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
— Igor Stravinsky
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
— Alan Watts
The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
— J. C. Watts
I have learned that nothing is certain except for the need to have strong risk management, a lot of cash, the willingness to invest even when the future is unclear, and great people.
— Jeffrey R. Immelt
Helping people getting a great start in life, a great foundation, is an investment.
— Gerry Schwartz
It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.
— Emmet Fox
A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator.
— Steven Berkoff
Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive - that you can touch the miracle of being alive - then that is a kind of enlightenment.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
I like bowling. I suck at it, but I like it. You know what's so funny? I have days when I'm absolutely great at doing it, and then I have days when I just don't understand it.
— Lil' Kim
I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
— Daniel Bruhl
We are domesticated animals, revolving in a cage which we have built for ourselves - with its contentions, wranglings, its impossible political leaders, its gurus who exploit our self-conceit and their own with great refinement or rather crudely.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Every great brand is like a great story.
— Kevin Plank
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
— Robert Frost
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
— Isaac Asimov
When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness.
— Lauren Bacall
A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.
— Ray Bradbury
I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We're both Leos, we understand each other.
— Tori Amos
One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.
— Christopher Hitchens
I'm all about showing people that I'm a little messed up, I have a lot of the same problems you have. By exposing myself and putting myself out there, people can relate to me and my act won't grow stale. I mean, nobody wants to hear a comedian say, 'Life is great.'
— Gabriel Iglesias
Jamaica's a country of great dichotomy. On the one hand you have a tourist industry with great beaches and resorts, but on the other you have such great poverty and the violence that goes along with that.
— Michael Franti
The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great.
— Hugh Hefner
The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
— Lao Tzu
Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.
— Carl von Clausewitz
A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration.
— Richard Schickel
In the last four years under the Patriot Act, we have seen a great increase in the ability of law enforcement officials to investigate and track terrorists.
— Mike Pence
The Mohawks have on all occasions shown their zeal and loyalty to the Great King yet they have been very badly treated by his people. 
— Joseph Brant
The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally.
— Gustav Stresemann
The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.
— James Tobin
There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness.
— Michael Jackson
Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.
— David Bailey
Once you get the kids raised and the mortgage paid off and accomplish what you wanted to do in life, there's a great feeling of: 'Hey, I'm free as a bird.'
— Dick Van Dyke
I have a great time with my life, and I wanna share it.
— Will Smith
My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest - and everybody agreed rugby was. It's a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.
— Clint Eastwood
It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression.
— Ben Shapiro
Generally, I love traveling because it's great to see new places.
— Joshua Roman
In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great.
— Karen DeCrow
Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation of them in a greater or less degree.
— Samuel Smiles
Man is alone everywhere. But the solitude of the Mexican, under the great stone night of the high plateau that is still inhabited by insatiable gods, is very different from that of the North American, who wanders in an abstract world of machines, fellow citizens and moral precepts.
— Octavio Paz
Connectivity just can't be a privilege for people in the richest countries. We believe that connecting everyone in the world is one of the great challenges of our generation, and that's why we are happy to play whatever small part in that that we can.
— Mark Zuckerberg
I write about all manner of things: a guy fighting aliens in the New York State Library, Antarctica, Inca civilization in Peru, the Great Pyramid at Giza, and people often ask me, where do I get these ideas from? They come from reading widely, watching a lot of documentaries, and increasingly ,as I was able to, travelling around the world.
— Matthew Reilly
To a very great extent, it's the fast-food industry that really industrialized our agriculture - that drove the system to one variety of chicken grown very quickly in confinement, to the feedlot system for beef, to giant monocultures to grow potatoes. All of those thing flow from the desire of fast-food companies for a perfectly consistent product.
— Michael Pollan
Personally, fresh air and exercise help me stay healthy and make me feel great!
— Charlotte Casiraghi
I never worked hard until I got to the Howard Law School and met Charlie Houston... I saw this man's dedication, his vision, his willingness to sacrifice, and I told myself, 'You either shape up or ship out.' When you are being challenged by a great human being, you know that you can't ship out.
— Thurgood Marshall
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
— Baltasar Gracian
We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
— John Locke
It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.
— Robert Bork
I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
— Queen Victoria
Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
— Humphry Davy
Great ideas originate in the muscles.
— Thomas A. Edison
High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
— Tryon Edwards
It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
— Lucretius
The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.
— William Butler Yeats
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
— Robert Frost
After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
— Emily Dickinson
No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.
— Calvin Coolidge
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
— Herman Melville
The great thing about McDonald's is that they have a lot of different things on the menu. I love their salads.
— Beyonce Knowles
Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town. 
— James Weldon Johnson
My biggest challenge every day is to be a great mother and a great businesswoman.
— Tory Burch
Ch'in Shih-huang is the first emperor of China. He united seven separate kingdoms into a single nation. He built the Great Wall and was buried with the terra-cotta soldiers. The Chinese have mixed feelings about him. They're proud of the nation he created, but he was a maniacal tyrant.
— Gene Luen Yang
Most people should be talking about how Floyd Mayweather is a great undefeated future Hall of Famer that's his own promoter and that works extremely hard to get to where he's at. Instead, all you hear is hate and jealous remarks from critics who criticize me and, you know, most of the time, the people that criticize me can't do what I can do.
— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Not every innovation in transportation is going to come from government or even a large enterprise. There are smart people out there with tools and skills to come up with great ideas.
— Anthony Foxx
Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.
— Annie Besant
All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.
— Maya Angelou
Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.
— Steven Seagal
You can never let anything distract you from your main objective. My only goal is to be great. That's all I want. That's all I ever aspire to be. Greatness is something nobody can ever take away from you, no matter what happens. So I put all my energy and focus into my craft.
— Larry Fitzgerald
Praised be You, my Lord, with all Your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, Who is the day through whom You give us light. And he is beautiful and radiant with great splendour; of You, Most High, he bears the likeness.
— Francis of Assisi
There are times when the art world seems like a religious empire. There are great cathedral galleries and pilgrimage sites where treasured art pieces are displayed like holy relics, and this can certainly be a great pleasure on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
— Michael Leunig
If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.
— Ann Landers
There's gonna be a lot of great songs, but there ain't going to be another 'Trap Queen.'
— Fetty Wap
Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
If we don't have a vigorous questioning, aggressive journalistic community and mythology, democracy itself is in great jeopardy.
— Milton Glaser
In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with great sound and pristine picture.
— Ridley Scott
I've always had a love affair with New York City, and I've threatened to get an apartment there one day. But it just made sense for me to set 'Burlesque' on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. It's a place I know intimately well and love, and I think there's a great story to be told with L.A.
— Steve Antin
Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.
— Steven Wright
I refuse to give energy to the negative. I've got a great fella and two great little girls.
— Melissa McCarthy
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
I know this may come as a shock to most of you, but I've decided to quit acting. I will not be auditioning for anything anymore, and if I get offered something like a role in a movie or a commercial or something, I will graciously turn it down. It's been great, but its just not for me anymore.
— Chris Pratt
Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.
— Dr. Seuss
And I came back and it was great, 'cuz George had set up all these flowers all over the studio saying welcome home. So then we got it together again. I always felt it was better on the White one for me. We were more like a band, you know.
— Ringo Starr
The making of the far-famed New York Central Park was opposed by even good men, with misguided pluck, perseverance, and ingenuity, but straight right won its way, and now that park is appreciated. So we confidently believe it will be with our great national parks and forest reservations.
— John Muir
I am the herald of the Great King.
— Francis of Assisi
Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.
— Peace Pilgrim
Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Our Great Lakes, harbors, ports, and rivers provide not only vital resources for us to live, but an entire maritime way of life for so many people. The least we can do is protect it, and the way of life it provides for so many.
— Candice S. Miller
When the Industrial Revolution started, the amount of carbon sitting underneath Britain in the form of coal was as big as the amount of carbon sitting under Saudi Arabia in the form of oil, and this carbon powered the Industrial Revolution, it put the 'Great' in Great Britain, and led to Britain's temporary world domination.
— David J. C. MacKay
Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service.
— Joan Didion
All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.
— John Boorman
Call it loyalty, call it what you want, but I suppose I've got people up here who I'm really tight with, we've made a lot of great bonds over the last few years and I've got people in my corner I can trust.
— Jonathan Brown
We believe that every single child has boundless promise, no matter who they are, where they come from, or how much money their parents have. We've got to remember that. We believe that each of these young people is a vital part of the great American story.
— Michelle Obama
Although I have guitars all around, and I pick them up occasionally and write a tune and make a record, I don't really see myself as a musician. It may seem a funny thing to say. It's just like, I write lyrics, and I make up songs, but I'm not a great lyricist or songwriter or producer. It's when you put all these things together - that makes me.
— George Harrison
You need pencil miles to be a great artist, animator, or filmmaker, and the sooner you start making mistakes, the quicker you learn.
— Phil Lord
It is a great day anytime I can bring a smile to a girl or boy, knowing that I am helping to inspire them to always dream big.
— Normani Kordei
Being vegan just gives you such great karma.
— Alicia Silverstone
Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.
— Gerald R. Ford
And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.
— Homer
To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
— Walt Whitman
Only great people can make great products.
— Ruchi Sanghvi
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future.
— Gifford Pinchot
The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.
— Norman Cousins
Great leaders understand that historical success tends to produce stable and inwardly focused organizations, and these outfits, in turn, reinforce a feeling of contentment with the status quo.
— John P. Kotter
Every day there is something new you are working on. It is a challenge every day and that is what makes this game so great.
— Anthony Rizzo
Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe. There's no place that we know about that can support life as we know it, not even our sister planet, Mars, where we might set up housekeeping someday, but at great effort and trouble we have to recreate the things we take for granted here.
— Sylvia Earle
The Internet is the first technology since the printing press which could lower the cost of a great education and, in doing so, make that cost-benefit analysis much easier for most students. It could allow American schools to service twice as many students as they do now, and in ways that are both effective and cost-effective.
— John Katzman
In Shakespeare's world, characters cannot trust their senses. Is the ghost in Hamlet true and truthful, or is it a demon, tempting young Hamlet into murderous sin? Is Juliet dead or merely sleeping? Does Lear really stand at the edge of a great cliff? Or has the Fool deceived him to save his life?
— Virginia Postrel
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
— George Edward Moore
Tranquil pleasures last the longest we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. 
— Christian Nestell Bovee
The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards.
— Billy Connolly
Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.
— Alice Cooper
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
— Walter Bagehot
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
— Honore de Balzac
I'm dying to be a great dad one day, whenever that day comes.
— Drake
We are only tenants, and shortly the great Landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.
— Joseph Jefferson
To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.
— James Dean
Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.
— Henry Cabot Lodge
The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.
— Alan Rickman
I really enjoy being with my fans. They offer great support and encouragement to me. I like signing autographs and posing for pictures.
— Lexi Thompson
Great horror movies are earned. 'Halloween' is an earned picture. Every moment of grotesque violence is earned by the suspense they're able to maintain getting there.
— John Carroll Lynch
There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!
— John F. Kennedy
The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.
— Heywood Broun
It is not enough to have great qualities We should also have the management of them. 
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a compass to locate other monuments and eventually to find their way out of the great, gray federal wilderness.
— Hugh Sidey
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
— Edmund Burke
The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.
— Cesare Lombroso
Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.
— David Hume
Every great film should seem new every time you see it.
— Roger Ebert
For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.
— Rajiv Gandhi
A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
— Jean de la Bruyere
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
— Mahatma Gandhi
All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
— John Locke
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
— Benjamin Franklin
If you don't think your anxiety, depression, sadness and stress impact your physical health, think again. All of these emotions trigger chemical reactions in your body, which can lead to inflammation and a weakened immune system. Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days.
— Kris Carr
Health is not valued till sickness comes.
— Thomas Fuller
We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.
— Joan D. Vinge
People talk about physical fitness, but mental health is equally important. I see people suffering, and their families feel a sense of shame about it, which doesn't help. One needs support and understanding. I am now working on an initiative to create awareness about anxiety and depression and help people.
— Deepika Padukone
It is unfortunately true that our generation and that of your parents have left you with a big mess that will now be yours to clean up: wars, budget challenges, pollution, global warming, battles of health care, natural disasters. They're all there for you. We're willing those to you. Are you ready?
— John Morgridge
A healthy outside starts from the inside.
— Robert Urich
Water is life, and clean water means health.
— Audrey Hepburn
Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
— William Hazlitt
Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
— Hippocrates
The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick. 
— P. T. Barnum
If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
— Hippocrates
True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. 
— Charles Caleb Colton
We need to change the culture of this topic and make it OK to speak about mental health and suicide.
— Luke Richardson
If the childhood obesity epidemic remains unchecked, it will condemn many of our kids to shorter lives, as well as the emotional and financial burdens of poor health.
— Richard Carmona
Tobacco is the only industry that produces products to make huge profits and at the same time damage the health and kill their consumers.
— Margaret Chan
Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health care, and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement.
— Christopher Bond
The body needs its rest, and sleep is extremely important in any health regimen. There should be three main things: eating, exercise and sleep. All three together in the right balance make for a truly healthy lifestyle.
— Rohit Shetty
Besides taking jobs from American workers, illegal immigration creates huge economic burdens on our health care system, our education system, our criminal justice system, our environment, our infrastructure and our public safety.
— Jan C. Ting
My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.
— Marilu Henner
My personal goals are to be happy, healthy and to be surrounded by loved ones.
— Kiana Tom
True health infuses positive energy in the mind, body and spirit; it is a main focus in my life.
— Maximillian Degenerez
Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
— Patrick Henry
I've always had a burning desire to help people and make a difference in the world. I didn't know how I could do that in modelling when it can be such a fake world. But my dad told me I could make a difference by being true to myself and teaching people what I've learnt about spirituality, health and nutrition.
— Miranda Kerr
The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk.
— Tom Vilsack
It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.
— Phil McGraw
Eventually, competition and adventure wane, and I enter my ibuprofen phase. Tweaky hamstrings and achy knees restrict mileage, but I continue running for health, sanity, and the ritual of a Sunday trail run with like-minded buddies. We discuss the nagging injuries that bedevil us, and remember the good old days when we were kings.
— Don Kardong
I would prefer to live forever in perfect health, but if I must at some time leave this life, I would like to do so ensconced on a chaise longue, perfumed, wearing a velvet robe and pearl earrings, with a flute of champagne beside me and having just discovered the answer to the last problem in a British cryptic crossword.
— Olivia De Havilland
Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses.
— Ric Keller
I take a massage each week. This isn't an indulgence, it's an investment in your full creative expression/productivity/passion and sustained good health.
— Robin S. Sharma
I'm a clown, which could be a public health role. I'm really interested in moving our society away from a society needing Xanax and Prozac, and that is really feeling depressed, to one that is celebrating, and so I find just walking around in colorful clothes, people smile.
— Patch Adams
After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.
— Barack Obama
Doing all we can to combat climate change comes with numerous benefits, from reducing pollution and associated health care costs to strengthening and diversifying the economy by shifting to renewable energy, among other measures.
— David Suzuki
Individuals will achieve healthier lifestyles when prevention and wellness programs are accessible and available in their workplace, through their health provider, and in their communities.
— Rob Wittman
We need, ultimately, to be able to view mental health with the same clear-headedness we show when talking about physical health.
— Matt Haig
Illegal immigration is not just a matter of interest in states along our border with Mexico. It is having an effect on local economies, schools, health care delivery, and public safety all across the country.
— Roger Wicker
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
— Mark Twain
Make no mistake about it. Bad habits are called 'bad' for a reason. They kill our productivity and creativity. They slow us down. They hold us back from achieving our goals. And they're detrimental to our health.
— John Rampton
The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.
— Eddie Bernice Johnson
We can start with housing, the sturdiest of footholds for economic mobility. A national affordable housing program would be an anti-poverty effort, human capital investment, community improvement plan, and public health initiative all rolled into one.
— Matthew Desmond
Obesity affects every aspect of a people's lives, from health to relationships.
— Jane Velez-Mitchell
A child's mental health is just as important as their physical health and deserves the same quality of support.
— Kate Middleton
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can't take good health for granted.
— Jack Osbourne
You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.
— Paul Walker
Decades of scientific research has proven that carbon pollution is harmful to human health and causes global warming.
— Jeff Merkley
The typical response from people when I tell them I'm diabetic is, 'Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.' You know, I'm not. I'm a better athlete because of diabetes rather than despite it. I'm more aware of my training, my fitness and more aware of nutrition. I'm more proactive about my health.
— Charlie Kimball
I'm healthy as can be - not an ache or a pain. A lot of my prayer is thanking the Lord that I am healthy. I pray for long life and good health.
— Joel Osteen
Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.
— Plato
The key to the future in an aging society is not found in increasing just our life span we need to increase our health span at the same time. 
— Chuck Norris
The wellness and prevention market will outgrow the health care market.
— Leroy Hood
Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.
— Robert Orben
Walking is magic. Can't recommend it highly enough. I read that Plato and Aristotle did much of their brilliant thinking together while ambulating. The movement, the meditation, the health of the blood pumping, and the rhythm of footsteps... this is a primal way to connect with one's deeper self.
— Paula Cole
Laughter is important, not only because it makes us happy, it also has actual health benefits. And that's because laughter completely engages the body and releases the mind. It connects us to others, and that in itself has a healing effect.
— Marlo Thomas
I'm not suggesting that social scientists stop teaching and investigating classic topics like monopoly power, racial profiling and health inequality. But everyone knows that monopoly power is bad for markets, that people are racially biased and that illness is unequally distributed by social class.
— Nicholas A. Christakis
The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
— Carl Jung
Everyone has their own definition of a healthy lifestyle, and mine has come to mean making health a priority but not an obsession.
— Daphne Oz
Vaccines are the most cost-effective health care interventions there are. A dollar spent on a childhood vaccination not only helps save a life, but greatly reduces spending on future healthcare.
— Ezekiel Emanuel
Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.
— Avicenna
There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.
— Josh Billings
The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
— Colin Powell
Steroids can seem necessary to compete at the highest levels, and the quick rewards can outweigh the long term consequences to the user's health.
— Howard Berman
TV does not care about you or what happens to you. It's downright bad for your health now, and that's not a far-out concept. I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.
— Tom Petty
In the first three years of life, the foundations of physical and also of psychic health are laid. In these years, the child not only increases in size but passes through great transformations. This is the age in which language and movement develop. The child must be safeguarded in order that these activities may develop freely.
— Maria Montessori
Remove the predators, and the whole ecosystem begins to crash like a house of cards. As the sharks disappear, the predator-prey balance dramatically shifts, and the health of our oceans declines.
— Brian Skerry
We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.
— Valerie Jarrett
The communities and countries best at using energy to optimize a microclimate for human life are also the ones whose people have the longest average lifespans. Canada, Sweden, and Iceland - places with inhospitable winter weather - are frontrunners in sustaining human health and life.
— Chris Hadfield
When mothers earn their fair share, young children have greater access to quality health care, educational opportunities, and safe communities. By ending the wage gap, we will help ensure that every child can achieve his or her God-given potential.
— Kirsten Gillibrand
Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes.
— Marian Wright Edelman
If you look at suicides, most of them are connected to depression. And the mental health system just fails them. It's so sad. We know what to do. We just don't do it.
— Rosalynn Carter
I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy, as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health. One aspect of this is that rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.
— John Forbes Nash, Jr.
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
— William Penn
Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health.
— James Thomson
America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.
— Tom Harkin
Look, if you have somebody who doesn't have health insurance, who doesn't have a doctor or dentist, and in order to deal with their cold or flu or dental problem, they go to an emergency room - in general, that visit will cost ten times more than walking into a community health center.
— Bernie Sanders
True health care reform cannot happen in Washington. It has to happen in our kitchens, in our homes, in our communities. All health care is personal.
— Mehmet Oz