Best Work Quotes - Page 10

• Passion will move men beyond themselves, beyond their shortcomings, beyond their failures.

  Joseph Campbell

  Work, Moving, Passion

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• If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Work, Passion, Interesting

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• You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid, and monotonous.

  Bob Black

  Teacher, Work, Stupid

  "The Abolition of Work". Book by Bob Black, 1985.

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• The best work never was and never will be done for money.

  John Ruskin

  Work, Humor, Done

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• Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Graduation, Giving Up

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• I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.

  Harry S. Truman

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• U2's best work has always been when we didn't know what we're doing.

  Bono

  Knows

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• I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium.

  Jeanette

  Work, Genre, Not Interested

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• A lot of the best work I've ever done started out as something completely different because I gave myself permission to have space around my time and expectations.

  Merlin Mann

  Space, Expectations, Different

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• We have built for this world a family mansion, and the next a family tomb. The best works of art are the expression of man's struggle to free himself from this condition, but the effect of our art is merely to make this low state comfortable and that higher state to be forgotten.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Family, Art, Struggle

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.31, Graphic Arts Books

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• Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Greatness, Art Is

  Seth Godin (2013). “Whatcha Gonna Do With That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012”, p.208, Penguin UK

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• Sometimes it just doesn't translate to people. You just move on, and you feel bad because people worked so hard on it and everyone loved it... Everybody was treated so well and was going for something and trying to do the best work possible.

  Catherine Keener

  Moving, People, Trying

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• I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil. Great art is like a tree, which grows in a particular place and has a trunk, leaves, blossoms, boughs, fruit, and roots of its own. The more native art is, the more it belongs to the entire world, because taste is rooted in nature. When art is true, it is one with nature. This is the secret of primitive art and also of the art of the mastersMichelangelo, Czanne, Seurat, and Renoir. The secret of my best work is that it is Mexican.

  Diego Rivera

  Art, Roots, Mexican

  Diego Rivera, with Gladys March (2012). “My Art, My Life: An Autobiography”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• The talent that has to be learned is finding out what someone's passion is and setting them up to realize that. You don't get the best work from people if you're guiding them versus them guiding themselves.

  Pete Cashmore

  Passion, People, Talent

  "Mashable's Pete Cashmore on Persistence". Interview with Teri Evans, www.entrepreneur.com. May 10, 2011.

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• Very often out of adversity that's when the best work comes.

  Tom Cochrane

  Adversity

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• I don't know what makes someone hip. The goal is artist achievement and the best work we can do with no limitation.

  Rick Rubin

  Artist, Goal, Achievement

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Harvest Time, Done, Today

  W. E. B. Du Bois (1980). “Prayers for Dark People”

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• It's easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.

  Brian Eno

  Attention, Done, Forget

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• The best work comes from people who are motivated by crisis. When something stops their original idea, they respond by coming up with something even better.

  Pharrell Williams

  Ideas, People, Motivated

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• Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.

  Denis Waitley

  Fathers Day, Work, Careers

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• The books we enjoy as children stay with us forever -- they have a special impact. Paragraph after paragraph and page after page, the author must deliver his or her best work.

  Sid Fleischman

  Children, Book, Impact

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• Remember: Jobs are owned by the company; you own your #‎ career !

  Earl Nightingale

  Jobs, Careers, Remember

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.164, Lulu.com

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• The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.

  Oscar Wilde

  Done, Literature, Singers

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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• One of the ways that our faith expresses itself is by our ability to be still, to be present, and not to panic or lose perspective. God still does his best work in the most difficult of circumstances.

  Tim Hansel

  Perspective, Doe, Panic

  Tim Hansel (1995). “Keep on Dancin': Daily Readings to Celebrate Life”, Chariot Family Pub

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• A photographer's best work is, alas, generally done for himself.

  John Szarkowski

  Done, Photographer, Alas

  "Looking at Photographs: 100 Pictures from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art". Book by John Szarkowski, 1973.

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