I've written previously about the challenge of putting yourself out there by saying, "You can either be judged because you created something or ignored because you left your greatness inside of you".
If what's left of our greatness is not to disappear, then all of us need to do some soul-searching and act like responsible, humane citizens of planet Earth.
Judges were asked one simple question: "who have been the greatest players in the history of the World Cup?" Each judge was left to define greatness on their own terms.
It could also be read as a rebuke to the dreary rags-to-riches plod of the biopic, in which the only smiles are those through tears, no portent of future greatness left undelivered, no demon unconfronted.
And he had so much greatness left in him.
He possessed the rare gift of greatness and left an indelible mark on all our lives.
As Vice President of Public Relations and Media Planning for Nine West Group and later Jones Apparel Group for 15 years, Jodi left a legacy of greatness that serves as an inspiration to all.
To make this picture plausible without distorting history beyond recognition, though, any moment that contradicts it — the centuries of Iberian greatness that left South America speaking Spanish and Portuguese, the entirety of the Italian Renaissance, in Venice and Florence — has to be rushed past in a breathless half-sentence concession.
Commercialism may have turned mythology into a media formula, with virtually any movie being cited as a retelling of the Ramayana and Mahabharatha; politics may have rubbed the stories of the gods the wrong way, from Right and from Left, leaving out the greatness of heart in them altogether.
"I'm in no hurry to see greatness leave," said Garnett, who made 17 of his 24 shots from the floor.
