Best Work Quotes - Page 15

• Our best work is done, our greatest influence is exerted, when we are without thought of self.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Self, Done, Influence

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Thoughts of Power”, p.9, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.

  C. S. Lewis

  Reality, Mind, Done

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• I am my best work - a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines.

  Audre Lorde

  Inspirational, Prayer, Maps

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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 and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Future, Harvest Time, Years

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

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• My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.

  Sam Abell

  Photography, Photographer, Ability

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