Best Work Quotes - Page 8

• ... women of the North, I ask you to rise up with earnest, honest purpose, and go forward in the way of right, fearlessly, as independent human beings, responsible to God alone for the discharge of every duty, for the faithful use of every gift, the good Father has given you. Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world will say, whether you are in your place or out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, do your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.

  Susan B. Anthony

  War, Father, Independent

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Harriot Stanton Blatch, Matilda Gage (2017). “HISTORY OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE Trilogy – Part 1 (Illustrated): The Origin of the Movement - Lives and Battles of Pioneer Suffragists (Including Letters, Articles, Conference Reports, Speeches, Court Transcripts & Decisions)”, p.1197, e-artnow

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• Virginia Woolf thought a lot about her own sex when she wrote. In the best sense of the word, her writing is very feminine, and by that I mean that women are supposed to be very sensitive to all the sensations of nature, much more so than men, much more contemplative. It's this quality that marks her best works.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Sex, Writing, Mean

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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

  Dale Carnegie

  Wrestling, Done, World

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

  Jeremy Piven

  Stage

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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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• I completely believe that I will produce my best work and my best work will come in my thirties.

  Jonathan Rhys Meyers

  Believe, Produce

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• I consider myself really lucky and I always have done. My approach is that if I know I'm relaxed and happy, then I will do my best work.

  Jonny Lee Miller

  Lucky, Done, Approach

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