Great Short Quotes:

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

- John D. Rockefeller

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Strength, Success, Business Life, Good Success

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

- Bill Cosby

source: Twitter post from Nov 18, 2009

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Success, Inspirational Change, Improving Yourself

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Most Memorable, Mind Playing

If you think you can't, you're right.

- Carol Bartz

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Smart, Thought Of The Day, Best Success

Good judgment comes from experience. And where does experience come from? Experience comes from bad judgment.

- Mark Twain

topic: Doe, Judgment, Good Judgment, Bad Experiences, Rock Climbing

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire PR officers.

- Daniel J. Boorstin

source: "Book of Humorous Quotations" by Connie Robertson, (p. 29), 1998.

topic: Greatness, Achieve, Born, Most Memorable, Mind Playing

Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.

- Mark Twain

topic: Credit, Care, Giving Credit, Inspirational Presidential, Inspiring Presidential

Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.

- Steve Prefontaine

topic: Business Life, Good Success, Inspirational Track, Monday Morning Motivational, Morning Motivation

[Red Dirt Marijuana] contains most of the great short stories in English that are not by Mr. Hemingway or Mr. O'Hara.

- Robert Anton Wilson

topic: Marijuana, Stories, Red, Great Short

I've got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just don't have the time to work on it right now. I'm way too busy with the 'Kingkiller Chronicles' and being a new dad.

- Patrick Rothfuss

topic: Dad, Thinking, Ideas, Chronicles, Great Short

Great short stories and great jokes have a lot in common. Both depend on what communication-theorists sometimes called "exformation," which is a certain quantity of vital information removed from but evoked by a communication in such a way as to cause a kind of explosion of associative connections within the recipient.

- David Foster Wallace

topic: Communication, Insightful, Connections, Great Short

Skill alone cannot teach or produce a great short story, which condenses the obsession of the creature; it is a hallucinatory presence manifest from the first sentence to fascinate the reader, to make him lose contact with the dull reality that surrounds him, submerging him in another that is more intense and compelling.

- Julio Cortazar

topic: Reality, Skills, Dull, Great Short

You're looking, moment by moment and scene by scene, how you can tell the most interesting story. So, we had this great short and we knew that we had a story about a boy and his dog. Because we had that pure emotional core, we could go on crazy tangents and always come back to Victor and Sparky. When I wrote in stuff like Weird Girl and the cat poop, Dutch Day and the windmill, it felt like it was part of Tim's universe.

- John August

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Girl, Dog, Crazy, Interesting Stories, Windmills