Best Work Quotes - Page 5

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

  John Ruskin

  Work, Humor, Done

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Work, Moving, Passion

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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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• When you're following your energy and doing what you want all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves.

  Shakti Gawain

  Inspirational, Work, Passion

  Shakti Gawain (1993). “Living in the Light: A Guide to Personal and Planetary Transformation”, Nataraj Publishing

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• Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

  Horace

  Life, Work, Hardship

  "Satires". Book by Horace, Book I, satire ix, line 59, c. 35 BC and 30 BC.

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• All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy.

  William Hurt

  Being Happy, Committed, Knows

  "Horrible histories" by Xan Brooks, May 18, 2005.

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

  Colleen Barrett

  Life, Fun, Attitude

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• It is always the case with the best work, that it is misrepresented, and disparaged at first, for it takes a curiously long time for new ideas to become current, and the older men who ought to be capable of taking them in freely, will not do so through prejudice.

  Francis Galton

  Hard Work, Men, Ideas

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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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• The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it; the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more money you will make.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Work

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities.

  Dale Carnegie

  Wrestling, Done, World

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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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• But I did not always know just what it was I wanted to photograph. I believe it is important for a photographer to discover this, for unless he finds what it is that excites him, what it is that calls forth at once an emotional response, he is unlikely to achieve his best work.

  Bill Brandt

  Photography, Believe, Emotional

  Bill Brandt (1948). “Camera in London”

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• Landscape pictures can offer us, I think, three verities: geography, autobiography, and metaphor. Geography is, if taken alone, sometimes boring, autobiography is frequently trivial, and metaphor can be dubious. But taken together, as in the best work of people like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, the three kinds of information strengthen each other and reinforce what we all work to keep intact - the affection for life.

  Robert Adams

  Photography, Taken, Thinking

  Robert Adams (1989). “Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values”

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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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