I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed. Steve Jobs
What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now. William Glasser
Life in abundance comes only through great love. Elbert Hubbard
I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls. Henry David Thoreau
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is! Anne Frank
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. Katherine Mansfield
Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you? Walt Whitman
The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life. George Bernard Shaw
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. George Bernard Shaw
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. Blaise Pascal
The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats. Theodore Roosevelt
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
If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does Russia. Robert Frost
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. William James
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause. Theodore Roosevelt