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" Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity. "

Robert M. Pirsig

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" A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions. "

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" What I am is a heretic who's recanted and, thereby, in everyone's eyes, saved his soul. Everyone's eyes but one, who knows deep down inside that all he has saved is his skin. "

Robert M. Pirsig

" Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm. "

Friedrich Nietzsche

" I feel blessed that I haven't seen or felt real pain to be immune to it. But I am dreading the time it comes. I feel blessed to have everything going fine. My parents' health is good, my brothers are well-settled, I have a great brother-in-law and my own career is doing fine. I hope and pray that I am fit and fine always. "

" The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic. "

Barry Eichengreen

Great Depression

" We grow small trying to be great. "

E. Stanley Jones

" We had a great many horses, of which we gave Lewis and Clark what they needed, and they gave us guns and tobacco in return. "

" 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. "

" I often look at women who wear great jeans and high heels and nice little T-shirts wandering around the city, and I think, 'I should make more of an effort. I should look like that.' But then I think, 'They can't be happy in those heels.' "

" Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. "

" The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?' "

" One great use of words is to hide our thoughts. "

" We need to have making, including computer science, shop, etc. as part of the core curriculum from the beginning, not just an optional afterschool thing. Things like First Robotics and all of those great programs need to become mainstream. "

" Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting. "

" Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind. "

Theodore Roosevelt

" I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. "

Marjorie Holmes

" I'm a great believer in karma, and the vengeance that it serves up to those who are deliberately mean is generally enough for me. "

" It is not always what we know or analyzed before we make a decision that makes it a great decision. It is what we do after we make the decision to implement and execute it that makes it a good decision. "

William Pollard

" All I can tell you really is if you get to the point where someone is telling you that you are not great or not good enough, just follow your heart and don't let anybody crush your dream. "

Not Good Enough

" 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.' "

" Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded. "

Charlie Chaplin

" When you get to know a lot of people, you make a great discovery. You find that no one group has a monopoly on looks, brains, goodness or anything else. It takes all the people - black and white, Catholic, Jewish and Protestant, recent immigrants and Mayflower descendants - to make up America. "

Black And White

" The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either. "

" Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly. "

John F. Kennedy

" 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. "

" If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night, and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness. "

Robert M. Pirsig

" The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. "

" I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.