Best Work Quotes - Page 5

• The realization that The Art of Obscurity is my 25th solo album prompted me to do some deep thinking about where I am, where I’m going and what I still want to achieve from this life in music. In my heart I feel vital and passionate about the creative process and that my best work is the next one I finish. It doesn’t necessarily work out that clean, but for me, it can be the only touchstone.

  Iain Matthews

  Art, Thinking, Work Out

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• The problem in today’s economy is that people are typically starting a family at the very time they are also supposed to be doing their best work. They are trying to be productive at some of the most stressful times of their lives. What if companies took this unhappy collision of life events seriously? They could offer Gottman’s intervention as a benefit for every newly married, or newly pregnant, employee.

  John Medina

  People, What If, Unhappy

  John Medina (2014). “Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School”, p.48, Pear Press

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• The real reward for doing your best work is not the money you make but the leader you become.

  Robin Sharma

  Success, Real, Leader

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Oct 14, 2011

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• Whenever I produce my best work, it's always because I've spent time being idle. Something always emerges after nothing.

  Will Self

  Produce, Working It, Idle

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• You do your best work when you're not conscious of yourself.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Consciousness, Self Conscious, Conscious

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• Giving every child a chance to reach their full potential is the best work anyone can do

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Giving, Full Potential

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• I'm in the trenches; I do the best work I can always do. Having said that, the way that what I do converges with the outside world is fascinating to me. Because it ebbs and flows. People's interest and understanding, it changes all the time.

  Daryl Hall

  Ebb And Flow, People, Understanding

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• I am often accused of being childish. I prefer to interpret that as child-like. I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things. I tend to exaggerate and fantasize and embellish. I still listen to instinctual urges. I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. I never water my garden without soaking myself. It has been after such times of joy that I have achieved my greatest creativity and produced my best work.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Running, Children, Creativity

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• If you are working with people with whom you do NOT do your best work, you are out of integrity.

  Michael Port

  Integrity, People, Ifs

  Michael Port, Jocelyn Wallace (2013). “Book Yourself Solid Illustrated: The Fastest, Easiest, and Most Reliable System for Getting More Clients Than You Can Handle Even If You Hate Marketing and Selling”, p.24, John Wiley & Sons

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• I do my best work under pressure, so I’ll nick an artery, and my husband isn’t allowed to stanch the bleeding till I’ve banged out a chapter.

  Zadie Smith

  Husband, Bleeding, Pressure

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• When you're managing an emergency department, you're trying to keep everybody calm, so when an emergency comes in the door, everyone can do their best work.

  Glen Mazzara

  Doors, Trying, Emergencies

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• I never know why shows succeed or don't succeed, which is why I look at it as, 'I'll do the best work that I can', and if the fans and people respond then I'm always really flattered and honored, and if they don't then I'll try and do something next time that they like better. But I have no idea what makes a hit show, I really don't.

  Poppy Montgomery

  Ideas, People, Trying

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• I've worked in network and cable on and off for a number of years, and you just understand what your parameters are. A lot of times, I think the best work that my team has come up with comes from having to deal with certain boundaries.

  Shawn Ryan

  Team, Thinking, Years

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• I feel I do my best work when it's all there on the page, and I feel that the character is very vivid as I read the script and I'm not having to create stuff and trying to cobble together something. If I have to do that, then I don't entirely trust what I'm doing.

  Guy Pearce

  Character, Trying, Together

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• The best works do not necessarily get to auction. I like to draw, so maybe I give you a little drawing. And then eventually it ends up at auction. And then critics say, 'Oh, that's a bad drawing!' Well, I didn't say it was so wonderful.

  Marlene Dumas

  Drawing, Giving, Auctions

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• Everybody wants to feel that you're writing to a certain demographic because that's good business, but I've never done that ... I tried to write stories that would interest me. I'd say, what would I like to read?... I don't think you can do your best work if you're writing for somebody else, because you never know what that somebody else really thinks or wants.

  Stan Lee

  Writing, Thinking, Stories

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• ... every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.

  Adam Langer

  Wall, Writing, Known

  Adam Langer (2013). “The Salinger Contract: A Novel”, p.36, Open Road Media

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• There is no truer and more abiding happiness than the knowledge that one is free to go on doing, day by day, the best work one can do, ... , and that this work is absorbed by a steady market and thus supports one's own life ... Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

  Robin G. Collingwood

  Work, Men, Perfect

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• Your best work always seems to have been done by someone else.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Done, Has Beens, Seems

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• You rest now. Rest for longer than you are used to resting. Make a stillness around you, a field of peace. Your best work, the best time of your life will grow out of this peace.

  Peter Heller

  Life, Fields, Used

  Peter Heller (2014). “The Painter: A novel”, p.44, Vintage

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• When it comes to me, I just write the most beautiful music I can, I do the best work I can, and then I hand it out there.

  Barry Manilow

  Beautiful, Writing, Hands

  Twitter post from Jun 7, 2017

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• Many an author will speak of writing, in his best work, more than he actually knows.

  Nancy Hale

  Writing, Speak, Knows

  Nancy Hale (1977). “The Realities of Fiction: A Book About Writing”, Greenwood Press

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• Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!

  George Washington Carver

  New Beginnings, Today Not Tomorrow, Words Of Wisdom

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• You've got to just follow your heart and do your best work. For better or worse, I have followed my heart. There is no doubt in my mind or heart that everything I've done is exactly what I intended to do.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Heart, Doubt, Mind

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• I always feel when you work with an artist and whenever I work with a really good photographer, I try to give him or her their own artistic freedom because that's the way you get the best work or at least the most interesting work.

  Helen Mirren

  Artist, Giving, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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