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The work ethic behind everything Kanye does is crazy. It's greatness. He told me, 'We're not just rappers, we're artists.'
When a great man has become petrified, and everyone begins to proclaim his greatness, he has already turned into a puppet.
The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.
You have something special. You have greatness in you. You have the ability to do more than you can ever begin to imagine.
True greatness will be achieved through the abundant mind that works selflessly - with mutual respect, for mutual benefit.
'Tis better to be known as a good man than a great one, for greatness is an assessment of mortals; goodness a gift of God.
As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.
We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
We are given to the great, for great purpose, to great ends. We are given to the grave, for grave purposes, to grave ends.
Greatness and madness are next door neighbours; and they borrow each other's sugar. You don't get there without the other.
Earthly greatness is a nice thing, and requires so much chariness in the managing, as the contentment of it cannot requite.
I just feel Black women, we get slept on a lot and people don't recognize our greatness in our curls and in chocolate skin.
A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.
When you're always trying to conform to the norm, you lose your uniqueness, which can be the foundation for your greatness.
Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none
You must show no mercy...nor have any belief whatsoever in how others judge you...for your greatness will silence them all.
The greatness of action includes immoral as well as moral greatness--Cortes and Napoleon, as well as Luther and Washington.
If you're gifted enough, nappy hair, gap teeth, acne face - I don't care what it is, greatness will shine through anything!
Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.
The greatness of Marciano in the ring was defined by the way he prepared for a fight, his ability to punch and take a punch.
Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none.
A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.
There's very little greatness in this world, but in the crucible of quality there's a special corner reserved for Van Halen.
Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.
Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.
A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.
Humans have the remarkable ability to get exactly what they must have. But there is a difference between a 'must' and 'want'.
The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshipped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
All the time nature is trying to tell us things and we blur her greatness with our little thoughts, our feebleness and flesh.
True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want.
We will be relentless in our pursuit for perfection. We won't ever be perfect - but in the process we will achieve greatness.
That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.
The beginning of divine wisdom is clemency and gentleness, which arise from greatness of soul and the bearing of infirmities.
Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.
No possible combination of circumstances can keep a man down, if he makes his personal attitude right and determines to rise.
God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it.
Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.
I like the old school, then I add the new school, and I got a concoction of greatness. I can't miss; you can't miss with that.
Innate must flow fully, freely, naturally; to, through, and into the educated brain to produce what education calls greatness.
The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research.
Greatness isn't something you should always be chasing. There's greatness within all of us, and I think that's what we forget.
Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur, before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man.
We are always faced with different challenges, and circumstances necessitate bringing out the greatness God puts in all of us.
To be honest, I hadn't realised the greatness of film music till I was exposed to film songs after I started living in Mumbai.
Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.
We live in world that wants to burnish the rough edges and straighten the crooked line, but conformity doesn't beget greatness.
Greatness is not born from one success. Greatness is born from persevering through the countless failed attempts that preceded.
When I started my podcast, 'The School of Greatness,' one of the top three people I wanted to get on the show was Tony Robbins.
Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.