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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Great
Solitude
Men
Build
Lofty
Some
Great Men
Nest
Like
Eagles
Remember, you and you alone are responsible for maintaining your energy. Give up blaming, complaining and excuse making, and keep taking action in the direction of your goals - however mundane or lofty they may be.
Jack Canfield
Alone
You
Remember
Goals
Complaining
Energy
Action
Responsible
Lofty
Give
Direction
Blaming
Taking
Maintaining
Excuse
Making
However
Up
May
Your
Keep
Mundane
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Love
Soul
Together
Genius
Intelligence
Degree
Imagination
Neither
Lofty
Both
Making
Go
Nor
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
James Allen
Dreams
Day
You
Vision
Become
One Day
Promise
Dream
Lofty
Prophecy
Shall
Ideal
Unveil
Your
Last
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
James Lane Allen
Dreams
Day
You
Vision
Become
One Day
Promise
Dream
Lofty
Prophecy
Shall
Ideal
Unveil
Your
Last
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
Saint Augustine
Great
You
First
Wish
Think
Humility
Must
Lofty
Fabric
About
Structure
Construct
Vast
Higher
Begin
Being
Then
Your
Foundation
Deeper
Foundations
Desire
If your mom asks you to do the dishes, do not pull out your pirate attitude. But if someone tells you you're not good enough, says your dreams are too lofty, or claims there is no room in showbiz for a dancing violinist - well then, by all means, pull out your eye patch, my friend, and take to the high seas.
Lindsey Stirling
Attitude
Dreams
Good
Mom
You
Not Good Enough
Too
Enough
Dancing
Says
Claims
Eye
Out
High
Tells
Lofty
My Friend
Someone
High Seas
Take
Well
Friend
Patch
Pirate
Dishes
Room
Ask
Then
Means
Your
Your Dreams
Showbiz
Seas
Pull
Violinist
There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
Victor Hugo
Genius
Seen
Whatever
Mediocrity
Too
Everything
Lofty
Easy
Admire
About
Horror
Sacred
Hills
Well
Masterpiece
Mountain
Grand
Appalling
Assembly
Near
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
Leonardo da Vinci
Work
Genius
Men
Active
Lofty
Most
Least
Doing
To all of the young people out there who are creating social change or even fomenting social movements: hold on to your idealism and your belief in your ability to change the world. Your lofty goals demand attention and deserve support.
Lynn Schusterman
Change
People
World
Goals
Young
Change The World
Out
Lofty
Ability
Support
Attention
Demand
Idealism
Movements
Hold
Young People
Social
Social Change
Creating
Your
Social Movements
Who
Even
Belief
Deserve
Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.
Peace Pilgrim
Thoughts
Heights
Lofty
Feet
Your
Ground
Keep
Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals.
James Naismith
Strong
Mind
Be Strong
Lofty
Clean
Ideals
Body
Liberals sit from this lofty perch of pomposity, but they are the champions of ignorance. They don't know what they're talking about.
Rush Limbaugh
Ignorance
Sit
Liberals
Lofty
About
Know
Talking
Champions
Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.
Emma Goldman
Great
Change
Vision
Every
Great Change
Possibilities
Has-Been
Daring
Lofty
Attempt
New
Make
Been
Conditions
Existing
Labeled
New Possibilities
Human
Race
Human Race
Utopian
The term 'pashmina' is often used interchangeably with 'cashmere,' but in reality, pashmina is a specific type of very fine, lofty cashmere, woven from a specific type of goat - one indigenous to northern India, Nepal, and Pakistan, and harvested and woven there as well.
Hanya Yanagihara
Reality
Type
Lofty
Nepal
India
Woven
Fine
Indigenous
Term
Well
Goat
Very
Northern
Often
Used
Pakistan
Specific
Wheresoever thou findest a high mountain or a lofty hill and a green tree, know that an idol is there!
Akiva ben Joseph
Tree
Thou
High
Lofty
Know
Hill
Idol
Mountain
Green
As an actor, you generally don't get to choose what projects you are part of, so I've been very fortunate that 'The Book of Mormon' was something I got to be part of. I don't want to be lofty, but it was groundbreaking, in many ways, for musical theater, so that was really thrilling to be part of.
Andrew Rannells
You
Book
Musical
Projects
Ways
Musical Theater
Lofty
Something
Thrilling
Mormon
Generally
Part
Got
Been
Very
Get
Want
Theater
Really
Fortunate
Choose
Many
Actor
I was thrust into a really lofty, enviable, but isolated position with 'Princess Diaries' in that I could carry a film before I really knew if I could act.
Anne Hathaway
Before
Carry
Lofty
Could
Thrust
Enviable
Knew
Princess
Isolated
Diaries
If I Could
Really
Act
Film
Position
Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but also of the most unevolved mentality; in one place there is a highly developed and complex civilisation, in another a crude and simple polity.
Annie Besant
Intelligence
Simple
Men
Stage
Every
Complex
Evolution
Lofty
Civilisation
Mentality
Crude
Developed
Highly
Most
Also
Another
Polity
Place
Found
I think it's always good to have realistic short term goals and then lofty longer term goals.
Austin Aries
Good
Goals
Realistic
Think
Lofty
Longer
Term
Always
Short
Short-Term
Then
It's really hard to chase a lofty dream.
Brett Young
Dream
Lofty
Chase
Really
Hard
All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world.
F. Sionil Jose
History
World
Nation
Christian
Mega
Lofty
Civilization
Through
Pyramids
Cathedrals
Glory
Articulated
Enduring
Christian World
I'm the first person in my family to go to college, and I'm an immigrant. My aspirations coming out of college weren't particularly lofty. I wanted a good job with a good company.
Geisha Williams
Good
Family
Good Job
Job
College
First
Immigrant
Out
Lofty
Particularly
First-Person
Coming
Go
Were
Person
Wanted
Aspirations
Good Company
Company
It is possible to rise to the lofty standard set by the Lord for priesthood holders in making decisions in quorums. It is possible when there is great faith and love and the absence of contention.
Henry B. Eyring
Love
Faith
Great
Priesthood
Great Faith
Possible
Lofty
Rise
Absence
Contention
Lord
Making
Making Decisions
Decisions
Standard
Set
There are fully forty towers, which are lofty and well built, the largest of which has fifty steps leading to its main body, and is higher than the tower of the principal tower of the church at Seville.
Hernan Cortes
Church
Seville
Lofty
Higher
Main
Leading
Steps
Tower
Towers
Principal
Well
Built
Than
Which
Fifty
Body
Forty
Fully
Largest
There is a need for a vision that's compelling and uplifting, especially in a time when people are worried. At the same time, in this era, hard work and lofty rhetoric are not going to compel you to the presidency.
Jeff Fortenberry
Work
Hard Work
Time
You
People
Vision
Presidency
Worried
Lofty
Era
Same
Uplifting
Going
Same Time
Rhetoric
Hard
Compel
Compelling
Need
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