Familiarity reduces the greatness of things.

“Help them to show the world that our greatness is not in things we do for ourselves, but in things we do for others.”

— Lisa Wingate

There can be no greatness in things. Things cannot be great. The only greatness is unselfish love.

— William Henry Drummond

The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears…

— Seneca the Younger

Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.

— Seneca the Younger

When you've worked in the same place for 13 years, when things go well, you know how to keep it going well. When things…

— Brad Stevens

Today the greatest single deterrent to knowledge of Jesus is His familiarity. Because we think we know Him, we pass Him by.

— Winifred Kirkland

When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly

— Jen Knox

It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children, the days…

— George Gissing

Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown their form…

— Samuel Johnson

My familiarity with the successful use of very long steel ropes for mining purposes naturally suggested their adaptation to the new purpose of deep…

— Alexander Agassiz

“And when I look into his eyes there’s a feeling of something I can only describe as familiarity, a sense of safety. Like coming…

— Rebecca James

I'm sure there are a lot of Italians who refer to themselves as goombahs and greaseballs and whatever. That's what people do. It gives…

— Samuel L. Jackson

You have to know that you have to have familiarity with the artist that you want to be, but there's so much about it…

— Monica Barbaro

Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's…

— Campbell Scott

Too much familiarity breeds contempt.

— Vikrant Parsai