Best Work Quotes - Page 11

• Your best work is your expression of yourself.

  Frank Gehry

  Expression

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• The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else.

  Earl Nightingale

  Mistake, Believe, Careers

  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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• You and I are stymied in our own creativity. We can only create as sub-creators, and even then our best work is only sub-creation.

  Matt Chandler

  Creativity, Creation, Creator

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• The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned, The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet, The mightiest rivers aren't spanned; Don't worry and fret, faint-hearted, The chances have just begun For the best jobs haven't been started, The best work hasn't been done.

  Berton Braley

  Jobs, Best Job, Rivers

  Berton Braley, “Opportunity”

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• The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another.

  Gosta Mittag-Leffler

  Dream, Art, Math

  "Mathematical Maxims and Minims". Book by Nicholas J. and John de Pillis Rose, 1988.

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• Some of my best work is done when I'm half asleep.

  Henry Wessel, Jr.

  Photography, Done, Half

  "An uncommon eye for common places / When reality presents itself to Henry Wessel, his 'soft eyes' are available to capture -- and elevate -- the moment". Interview with Jesse Hamlin, www.sfgate.com. February 22, 2007.

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• I think the best work flows out of a collaborative environment.

  Steven Bochco

  Thinking, Flow, Environment

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• Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

  Max Eastman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

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• Finally, I truly believe that each of us must find meaning in our work. The best work happens when you know that it's not just work, but something that will improve other people's lives.

  Satya Nadella

  Believe, People, Find Me

  "FTSE dips again after Asian markets slide, but UK construction booms - as it happened" by Graeme Wearden, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2014.

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• I don't think I ever got the hang of the writers' room. I love collaborating with people, but I really do my best work alone, and I think I would want to - if I did something again, I think I'd want to take total ownership the way Aaron Sorkin or David Kelley does.

  Diablo Cody

  Thinking, People, Doe

  "Diablo Cody 'Depressed' After 'Tara' Cancellation". www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 25, 2011.

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• Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the only expert.

  Frank Gehry

  Expression, Design, Experts

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• A photographer is responsible for creating a climate in which they can do their best work.

  Gregory Heisler

  Creating, Climate, Photographer

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• Thinking can be lateral or "sweaty". For the latter you're better off in an office and following a routine but for the former you have to be "out of your mind", so to speak. So although I recognize the merits of hard work, I find that my work goes stale if I don't go off wandering around the world every few weeks. My friends think I'm a gipsy, but that's when I do "part 1" of my best work.

  Joao Magueijo

  Work, Thinking, Office

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• Design is an art of situations. Designers respond to a need, a problem, a circumstance, that arises in the world. The best work is produced in relation to interesting situations - an open-minded client, a good cause, or great content.

  Ellen Lupton

  Art, Interesting Situations, Design

  Ellen Lupton (2014). “Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students”, p.219, Chronicle Books

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• The harder I work the more I live.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Work, Good Luck, True Joy

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• I honestly believe that my best work is in front, not behind me. I am driven by a deep passion and need to make a difference and leave this world a little better than when I arrived. That's what keeps me going.

  Rick Hansen

  Believe, Passion, Differences

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• Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.'

  Sue Halpern

  Work, Passion, Exclusive

  Sue Halpern (2011). “Four Wings and a Prayer: Caught in the Mystery of the Monarch Butterfly”, p.121, Vintage

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• I slapped my face two or three times with both hands, as hard as possible. The slapping hurt. It snapped me to attention. My adrenaline started flowing... the Yugoslavs, sitting in the next lane stared at me in disbelief. The harsh slapping made me angry-exactly what I wanted. I did my best work when I was angry.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Hurt, Hands, Two

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• The best work in the world was always done by members of the aristocracy.

  George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

  Aristocracy, Done, World

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• A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspirational, Doe, Feels

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• Do the best work you can do and try not to worry about the fact that you are a woman covering the NFL and you have never played the sport before. Just focus on the story and study, prepare and deliver the best report possible.

  Megan Alexander

  Sports, Nfl, Worry

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Judging, Merit

  Essays "Of Marriage and the Single Life" (1625) See Lucan 3

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• If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace.

  Johnny Carson

  Doing What You Love, Work You Love, Careers

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• How do you make people do the best work? You make them feel comfortable, so you can feel comfortable - and then you can have a really good ballgame!

  Robert Knepper

  People, Ballgame, Feels

  "Cult ‘s Robert Knepper on Method, Prison Break , and Unleashing the Dark Side" by Andrew Fish, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 14, 2013.

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• I looked long and carefully at the picture of a stag painted by Landseer - the style was good, and the brush was handled with fine effect, but he fails in copying Nature, without which the best work will be a failure.

  John James Audubon

  Long, Style, Copying

  John James Audubon (1868). “The Life and Adventures of J. J. Audubon ... Edited, from Materials Supplied by His Widow, by Robert Buchanan. Second Edition. [With Portraits.]”, p.117

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