Best Work Quotes - Page 12

• A huge part of acting in movies is appetite. You do your best work when you've got a lot of appetite and you really want to embrace something. When you get tired, you don't have that hunger.

  Clive Owen

  Tired, Acting, Want

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• God tends to do his best work when the odds appear stacked against him.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Odds

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• If you're working with a spreadsheet or a thread of correspondence or a set of data, I'm not sure you're doing your best work if you're doing it on an iPhone.

  Seth Godin

  Iphone, Data, Doing Your Best

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• The inferiority of photographs to the best works of artists, so far as resemblance is concerned, lies in their catching no more than a single expression. If many photographs of a person were taken at different times, perhaps even years apart, their composite would possess that in which a single photograph is deficient.

  Francis Galton

  Lying, Taken, Artist

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• I felt like people really do their best work when they're having a really good time and feel safe to push the envelope and make a jackass out of themselves.

  Clark Gregg

  People, Safe, Envelopes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Through working with amazing people, the bar is always raised to do your own best work. I want to be a part of unique stories that are smart, heartfelt, funny and sad, and have a general sense of good quality.

  Ari Graynor

  Smart, Unique, People

  "Exclusive: Ari Graynor Talks LUCKY, THE SITTER and WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER?". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 15, 2011.

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• Success brings poise, especially avoirdupois. Success comes before work only in the dictionary.

  William Cranch Bond

  Poise, Dictionary, Hard Work Comes Success

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• The best work flows from us effortlessly. Allow the gifts of spirit to come to you.

  Deepak Chopra

  Flow, Spirit, Work Flow

  Deepak Chopra (2008). “The Seven Spiritual Laws Of Success For Parents: Guiding your Children to success and Fulfilment”, p.107, Random House

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• The only features I've done have been on the lower-budget end, for what they were. It's really all about getting the best people aboard and committing to doing the best work possible and prioritizing where your time is going to be spent.

  Mick Garris

  People, Done, Ends

  Source: collider.com

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• Ninety percent of what we create is not our best work.

  Robert McKee

  Ninety, Percent

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• God often does His best work in us when He catches us by surprise and introduces a change that is completely against our own desire.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Desire, Doe, Surprise

  Charles R. Swindoll (2007). “So, You Want To Be Like Christ?: Eight Essentials to Get You There”, p.22, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.

  David Bowie

  Couple, Life And Death, Musician

  "Rock's Heathen Speaks". Livewire Interview, www.concertlivewire.com. June 16, 2002.

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• You can't micromanage. People who try to do that often fall on their faces. Incentivize those who work with you so you get the best work you can. Every career is a team effort, even if you're the one in front.

  Michael Franzese

  Team, Fall, Careers

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• I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work.

  Brian Eno

  Musician, Territory, Fascinated

  "Brian Eno: from the Velvet Underground to Burial". Interview with Rob Fitzpatrick, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2011.

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• 'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.

  Robert B. Parker

  Reading, Yesterday, Done

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• Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Vanity, Guy, Looks

  "Oscar knight". Interview with Simon Garfield, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2006.

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• I've been gone for a long time. I really want to give the fans something that they deserve to have. So, I'm working really hard on this. I really want to make it the best work I've done so far.

  Brandy Norwood

  Long, Giving, Fans

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• Some of the greatest artists did their best work when they got political.

  Alicia Keys

  Artist, Political

  "I am an anarchist, says Alicia Keys". Blender Magazine Interview, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2008.

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• I feel like I haven't done my best work yet. I feel like there's a world of possibilities out there.

  Liza Minnelli

  Done, World, Possibility

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• I feel like I haven't done my best work yet.

  Liza Minnelli

  Done, Feels, Havens

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Thinking, Offers, Ifs

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• Confidence and empowerment are cousins in my opinion. Empowerment comes from within and typically it's stemmed and fostered by self-assurance. To feel empowered is to feel free and that's when people do their best work. You can't fake confidence or empowerment.

  Amy Jo Martin

  Cousin, Self, People

  "What's the ROI on Your Day? Amy Jo Martin on Passion and Innovation". Interview with Leslie Bradshaw, www.forbes.com. January 26, 2012.

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• When I am wrong, I will learn the lesson and move on to face other challenges. For me, that's what creating your own life is. Doing your best work while being your best self.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Moving, Self, Creating

  "Jennifer Lopez Is Our October Cover Girl!". Interview with Jancee Dunn, www.cosmopolitan.com. September 3, 2013.

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• See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work.

  Robbie Coltraine

  Past, Car, Done

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I feel that I'm an essayist and that my best work gets done in that form. I wanted to do a book where the essays could exist on their own terms. A book that was neither a book of essays that were shoehorned into a memoir, nor [one where] the essays had been published elsewhere first, [because] then they would kind of bear the marks of those publications.

  Meghan Daum

  Book, Done, Firsts

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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