Great men Quote by Anton Webern Download Open image “It's always the same: mediocrities are over-valued and great men are rejected.” — Anton Webern ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Great men Mediocrity Men Rejected
Mediocre men sometimes fear great office, and when they do not aim at it, or when they refuse it, all that is to be… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to be as mediocre as possible — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake. — Nelson Boswell Copy Share Image
Any one who is much talked of be much maligned. This seems to be a harsh conclusion; but when you consider how much more… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
“Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity trust upon them.” — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations. — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
So how do people listen to music? How do the broad masses listen to it? Apparently they have to be able to cling to… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
Indeed, man only exists insofar as he expresses himself. Music does it in musical ideas. — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
And the works that endure and will endure for ever, the great masterpieces, cannot have come into being as humanity... imagines. Man is only… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
The idea is distributed in space. It isn't only in one part; one part can't express the idea any longer, only the union of… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
Unity is surely the indispensable thing if meaning is to exist. Unity, to be very general, is the establishment of the utmost relatedness between… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
Comprehensibility is the highest law of all. Unity must be there. There must be means of ensuring it. All the things familiar to us… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
As regards the presentation of musical ideas, obviously rules of order soon appeared. Such rules of order have existed since music has existed and… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
From this simple phenomenon, this idea of saying something twice, more often, as often as possible, in order to make oneself understood - the… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
Art is a product of nature in general, in the particular form of human nature. — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
If you want to make something clear to someone, you mustn't forget the main point, the most important thing, and if you bring in… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
I think the next 50 years are going to present the human race with challenges that so far exceed the limitations of geopolitical boundaries… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
“You are destiny for greatness. Your future is in the hands of the Lord.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority,… — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton Copy Share Image
“The origins of great companies inevitably start with the ideas and enterprise of great men.” — Bill Scott Copy Share Image
A wholesome regard for the memory of the great men of long ago is the best assurance to a people of a continuation of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
My father was a really great man. I'll never forget the last thing he ever said to me. Nor will I ever repeat it. — John S. Hall Copy Share Image
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
First at the outset, let me commend the great men and women of the United States Coast Guard for what they do. — Vito Fossella Copy Share Image
Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power. ... The great man, whether we comprehend him in the most intense… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
