Best Work Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• I think Gram did his best work in co-writes. Sometimes when you're working with one other person, it's such a magical thing. You're editing each other and you're trying to create that one spark.

  Chris Hillman

  Writing, Thinking, Editing

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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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• If you believe in what you're doing, you'll be successful.

  Connie Sellecca

  Happiness, Success, Happy

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• The stage is my love, it's where I started and where I do my best work.

  Jeremy Piven

  Stage

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• It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.

  Danny DeVito

  Fun, Thinking, Safe

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

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• When I feel like I'm doing my best work, there is a bit of a freedom, a bit of flight that you're not so much losing yourself but you're sort of in the zone.

  Chris Cooper

  Losing, Flight, Feels

  "Chris Cooper, Filling the Key Role in "Breach". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. February 15, 2007.

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• Herman Melville said that artists have to take a dive and either you hit your head on a rock and you split your skull and you die … or that blow to the head is so inspiring that you come back and do the best work that you ever did. BUT you have to take the dive and you do not know what the results will be.

  Maurice Sendak

  Artist, Blow, Rocks

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• I’m constantly in doubt about what I’m doing, I’m constantly tortured, and that’s why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies. I’m not striving for happiness, I’m trying to get some work done. And sometimes the best work is done under doubt. Constant rethinking, and reevaluating what you’re doing, working and working until you feel it’s finished. And that’s an interesting point too, that you’ve got to know when to stop. Sometimes there’s a magical moment when everything comes together.

  John Zorn

  Children, Yuppies, Interesting

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• Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.'

  Sue Halpern

  Work, Passion, Exclusive

  Sue Halpern (2011). “Four Wings and a Prayer: Caught in the Mystery of the Monarch Butterfly”, p.121, Vintage

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• Some of my best work is done when I'm half asleep.

  Henry Wessel, Jr.

  Photography, Done, Half

  "An uncommon eye for common places / When reality presents itself to Henry Wessel, his 'soft eyes' are available to capture -- and elevate -- the moment". Interview with Jesse Hamlin, www.sfgate.com. February 22, 2007.

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• Thinking can be lateral or "sweaty". For the latter you're better off in an office and following a routine but for the former you have to be "out of your mind", so to speak. So although I recognize the merits of hard work, I find that my work goes stale if I don't go off wandering around the world every few weeks. My friends think I'm a gipsy, but that's when I do "part 1" of my best work.

  Joao Magueijo

  Work, Thinking, Office

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• A photographer is responsible for creating a climate in which they can do their best work.

  Gregory Heisler

  Creating, Climate, Photographer

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• Design is an art of situations. Designers respond to a need, a problem, a circumstance, that arises in the world. The best work is produced in relation to interesting situations - an open-minded client, a good cause, or great content.

  Ellen Lupton

  Art, Interesting Situations, Design

  Ellen Lupton (2014). “Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students”, p.219, Chronicle Books

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• Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the only expert.

  Frank Gehry

  Expression, Design, Experts

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• I don't think I ever got the hang of the writers' room. I love collaborating with people, but I really do my best work alone, and I think I would want to - if I did something again, I think I'd want to take total ownership the way Aaron Sorkin or David Kelley does.

  Diablo Cody

  Thinking, People, Doe

  "Diablo Cody 'Depressed' After 'Tara' Cancellation". www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 25, 2011.

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• Finally, I truly believe that each of us must find meaning in our work. The best work happens when you know that it's not just work, but something that will improve other people's lives.

  Satya Nadella

  Believe, People, Find Me

  "FTSE dips again after Asian markets slide, but UK construction booms - as it happened" by Graeme Wearden, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2014.

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• Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

  Max Eastman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

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• I think the best work flows out of a collaborative environment.

  Steven Bochco

  Thinking, Flow, Environment

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