The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability of these or other men to make these ideologies palatable to the majority.
I don't know any celebrated people that register in a big way who aren't unique.
Great men are always exceptional men; and greatness itself is but comparative. Indeed, the range of most men in life is so limited that very few have the opportunity of being great.
I'm as interested in exceptional characters as men are.
One of the interesting things is, the most gifted people, the biggest people, have no problem taking small roles.
Northwestern's alumni list is truly impressive. This university has graduated best-selling authors, Olympians, presidential candidates, Grammy winners, Peabody winners, Emmy winners, and that's just me!
It is unfortunate that superior talent and superior men are so seldom united.
Only great men have great faults.
The thing I find about the movie industry is that 99 percent of the people are absolute scum. They're horrible people, they really are. Very nasty killer rabbits who hate movies. But the other 1 percent are really the greatest, most wonderful people in the world.
you have often seen in the cinema, erich, haven't you, that between extraordinary people extraordinary things like for example extraordinary love can arise. so we only have to be extraordinary and see what happens.
Outstanding examples of genius - a Mozart, a Shakespeare, or a Carl Friedrich Gauss - are markers on the path along which our species appears destined to tread.
Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.
Great men are sometimes so even in small things.
Exceptional people deserve special concessions.
Winners are different. They're a different breed of cat.
There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs --apart from discernment --a certain greatness to find him.
Phenomenal people in Ames and throughout the state of Iowa.
The individuals who seem to us most outstanding, who are honored with the name of genius, are those who have proposed to enact the fate of all humanity in their personal existences.
When you're the best, you only want to surround yourself with the best.
I always feel that if you were the best in any generation, you most likely would have been close to the best in any other generation too.
There's only one Lawrence Dallaglio and there's only one James Haskell.
Only an extraordinary person can turn opportunity into reality.
I am a firm believer that you don't do anything significant by yourself. Again, maybe there are exceptions. There's the Picasso or the Mozart.
They were all famous and fantastic fellows.
Men possessing minds of the first order and who have had opportunities of being known and of acquiring the general confidence do not abound in any country beyond the wants of the country.
