I don't have a ton of friends, but the friends I have are great ones. I don't have huge family, but the family I have is a great one.
At the end of the day, the great ones - well, they rise, and that's what I want to do.
You have to be able to adjust on the fly, and that is what the great ones do.
And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought.
Portraits of other great ones look down on you in your college halls; but while you are young and sit at the brief feast, what avails their serene gaze if it do not lift up your hearts and movingly persuade you to match your manhood to its inheritance?
I've met some great men, I've met a lot of not-so-great ones.
I think all the great ones have it. They just have a will they can put on their teammates. Refuse to lose mentality. When you step in the huddle with any of those guys, you're so calm that he knows what the heck he's doing and he can get the job done.
All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
If you’ve built your identity only on your professional accolades and awards, what is going to be left of your legacy when those trophies tarnish and those records get broken? The Great Ones understand the importance of being well-rounded.
