Best Work Quotes - Page 4

• Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

  Colleen Barrett

  Life, Fun, Attitude

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• If you want to be the best,
  Work hardier than the rest.
  If you don't want to be the best,
  Just work like the rest.

  Bob Stinson

  Motivational, Hard Work, Training

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• Any human being is really good at certain things. The problem is that the things you're good at come naturally. And since most people are pretty modest instead of an arrogant S.O.B. like me, what comes naturally, you don't see as a special skill. It's just you. It's what you've always done.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Work, Passion, Skills

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• The writer must be in it; he can't be to one side of it, ever. He has to be endangered by it. His own attitudes have to be tested in it. The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing himself, always.

  Arthur Miller

  Fun, Attitude, Writing

  Richard Isadore Evans, Arthur Miller (1969). “Psychology and Arthur Miller”, Praeger Publishers

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• It is essential for the photographer to know the effect of his lenses. The lens is his eye, and it makes or ruins his pictures. A feeling for composition is a great asset. I think it is very much a matter of instinct. It can perhaps be developed, but I doubt if it can be learned. To achieve his best work, the young photographer must discover what really excites him visually. He must discover his own world.

  Bill Brandt

  Photography, Eye, Thinking

  Bill Brandt (1993). “Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! is the song she sings through warbling birds, and whispering pines, and roaring waves, and screeching winds.

  Lydia M. Child

  Song, Nature, Men

  "Letters from New York". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Letter No. 38, 1843.

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• Everyone has his own particular talent, niche and interests. Which isn't to say that you shouldn't try new genres or styles or explore forms other than the ones you're most comfortable with. But you should be willing to recognize that when writers try to make themselves into something they aren't or, more important, don't want to be ... they aren't going to be doing their best work.

  Kevin Alexander

  Writing, Style, Important

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• People say you make your best work when in despair, but I think happiness is a good place to write from.

  Paul Weller

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2012.

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• The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Simple, I Can, Can Do

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• Never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Dream, People, Aspiration

  "House Dems Face Uphill Battle to End Iraq War". The Associated Press, www.nbcnews.com. March 09, 2007.

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• I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done.

  River Phoenix

  Meaningful, Mosquitoes, Done

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Work, Moving, Passion

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• Everyone works hard when they want to, when they get quick results, when it's convenient to put forth effort. The best work hard when they don't want to, when it's inconvenient to give it that little extra effort... and that extra effort might be just what they need to place them on top.

  Peter Vidmar

  Work, Gymnastics, Giving

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• You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jun 09, 2013

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• To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Work, Teaching, Learning

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

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• Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Thinking, World, Approval

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• Whenever I'm asked to identify my best work, or my favorite, my answer has always been the same - 'My next one!'

  Ken Danby

  Answers, Next, Conformity

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• Many of us have created lives that give very little support for experimentation. We believe that answers already exist out there, independent of us. What if we invested more time and attention to our own experimentation? We could focus our efforts on discovering solutions that work uniquely for us.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Work, Believe, Passion

  Margaret J. Wheatley, Myron E. Rogers (1998). “A Simpler Way”, p.21, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• When creative people do their best work, they're hardly ever in charge, they're just sort of rolling along with their eyes shut yelling wheee.

  Stephen King

  Eye, Yelling, People

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• Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had bad timing.

  Scott Adams

  Song, Hip Hop, Age

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• Fear does its best work in isolation. Courage wears the face of your ability to love and be loved. Breakthrough happens when you discover your self-worth had nothing to do with what you looked like.

  Lynn Jones

  Cancer, Self Worth, Over You

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• Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.

  Bobby Unser

  Motivational, Positive, Men

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• I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Motivational, Positive, Hard Work

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

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

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Graduation, Giving Up

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