Best Work Quotes - Page 8

• The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.

  Oscar Wilde

  Done, Literature, Singers

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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• Remember: Jobs are owned by the company; you own your #‎ career !

  Earl Nightingale

  Jobs, Careers, Remember

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.164, Lulu.com

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• A photographer's best work is, alas, generally done for himself.

  John Szarkowski

  Done, Photographer, Alas

  "Looking at Photographs: 100 Pictures from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art". Book by John Szarkowski, 1973.

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• The books we enjoy as children stay with us forever -- they have a special impact. Paragraph after paragraph and page after page, the author must deliver his or her best work.

  Sid Fleischman

  Children, Book, Impact

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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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• Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.

  Denis Waitley

  Fathers Day, Work, Careers

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• I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium.

  Jeanette

  Work, Genre, Not Interested

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• I slapped my face two or three times with both hands, as hard as possible. The slapping hurt. It snapped me to attention. My adrenaline started flowing... the Yugoslavs, sitting in the next lane stared at me in disbelief. The harsh slapping made me angry-exactly what I wanted. I did my best work when I was angry.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Hurt, Hands, Two

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• The harder I work the more I live.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Work, Good Luck, True Joy

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• Nobody went out to pasture, and a lot of people are doing their best work. Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, and Sting are at the top of their game. I mean, Tony Bennett is the coolest guy I ever met! We have to figure out how to break out of this age ghetto.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Mean, Ghetto, Games

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

  Peter Matthiessen

  Consciousness, Self Conscious, Conscious

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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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• 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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• If the reader enters a kind of immersive experience reading a book, then I have to enter a kind of immersive state to do my best work.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Book, Reading, Kind

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Let us not torment each other because we are not all alike, but believe that God knew best what He was doing in making us so different. So will the best harmony come out of seeming discords, the best affection out of differences, the best life out of struggle, and the best work will be done when each does his own work, and lets every one else do and be what God made him for.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Believe, Struggle, Differences

  James Freeman Clarke (1880). “Self-culture, lectures”

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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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• 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 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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• I do my best work when I feel conviction to say something through the character I play. Always I want to have integrity and not compromise that.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Integrity, Character, Play

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• My best work is always done... when I'm experimenting. If I stop experimenting I feel it just becomes a drudgery.

  William Dobell

  Done, Feels, Experiments

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• There is a kind of certainty that seems to characterize Jared Smith's best work, an understanding about place and the flow of spirit that makes you think of Thoreau along with a commitment as fierce as that of Pablo Neruda.

  Joseph Bruchac

  Commitment, Thinking, Make You Think

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• But I think the one thing that I can say about us is that we're very consistent about certain things and part of that is our desire to do the very best work that we can and not rest on our laurels, or not allow formula to come into what we do.

  Michael Stipe

  Thinking, Desire, Laurels

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• Glenn Close is a living icon. You look at the work, and I think it's wild, because she thinks some of her best work was in Dangerous Liaisons and that's what I believe as well.

  Anthony Anderson

  Believe, Thinking, Icons

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

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