Good Work Quotes - Page 6

• My first movie was 'Diner.' My second movie was 'Tender Mercies.' I did really good work.

  Ellen Barkin

  Diners, Firsts, Mercy

  "Actress-producer Ellen Barkin". "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. November 14, 2011.

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• PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy.

  Diane Wakoski

  Acceptance, Stuff, Celebrate

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• I think I am very mainstream - I'm committed to good works in my life.

  Peter Jennings

  Thinking, Mainstream, Committed

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• I’d rather see the United States as a beacon of Good Work and Good Citizenship, rather than as #1 on some international educational measurement.

  Howard Gardner

  Educational, United States, Measurement

  "Living Legends: An Interview With Howard Gardner". Interview with Matthew Lynch, Ed.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. January 11, 2012.

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• I have always been of the mind that good work is good work, whether performed on stage, on television or in film and, like any reasonable actor, I keep my options open.

  Benjamin Bratt

  Mind, Actors, Television

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• I want to be remembered as an actor who put in some good work in the beginning of his career, even better work at the end of his career and slowly, successfully made the transition into writing and directing.

  Jonathan Brandis

  Writing, Careers, Transition

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.

  Karen Black

  People, Trying, Want

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• When you have to do all the more crappy jobs before, you appreciate all the good work that comes out of that. There are many girls who immediately have a top model career, and there are lots of models who are doing things that aren't as exciting as doing big campaigns and beautiful magazines.

  Saskia de Brauw

  Beautiful, Girl, Jobs

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• What I have now are good problems of trying to decide and what I really want to do is good work next. My phone's ringing a lot more and I've got nine lines so when it doesn't ring, it's very frustrating.

  Bob Saget

  Phones, Trying, Lines

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

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• There seems to be a notion in Hollywood that if you want to make money, you have to sacrifice doing good work with integrity. And I think that's bullshit. I think that's an excuse, and it's what people say who are scared that they can't do good work.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Integrity, Sacrifice, Thinking

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 28, 2007.

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• Good work, like good talk or any other form of worthwhile human relationship, depends upon being able to assume an extended shared world.

  Stefan Collini

  World, Able, Assuming

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• I think I have a really good work ethic.

  Ashlyn Harris

  Thinking, Work Ethic, Ethics

  "Q&A with Ashlyn Harris, Washington Freedom's Newest Goalkeeper". Interview with Kat Galsim, bleacherreport.com. June 9, 2010.

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• One might better try to sail the Atlantic in a paper boat, than try to get to heaven on good works.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heaven, Trying, Paper

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• Immortality is a by-product of good work. Masterpieces are not for artists, they're for critics. Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together. My message to the world is 'Let's swing, sing, shout, make noise! Let's not mimic death before our time comes! Let's be wet and noisy!'

  Mel Brooks

  Artist, Swings, Together

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

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• We believe in encouraging the talented, but we believe that while survival of the fittest may be a good working description of the process of evolution, a government of humans should elevate itself to a higher order.

  Mario Cuomo

  Believe, Order, Government

  1984 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 16 July 1984, San Francisco, CA

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• If you've as many films as I have, and missed as many opportunities as I have to do good work and been pissed off about it, you say, "Well, now you've got to start getting it right." If you get a chance, you really want to cook. And the tragedy is, when you finally feel that way about yourself, about your work, nobody wants to give you a chance. And that happens to a lot of actors. But I'm feeling very wanted these days, so there must be something in the air.

  Burt Reynolds

  Opportunity, Air, Giving

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

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• Comforting Wealth comes by good work, by wisdom it increases, cleverness stabilizes it and by patience it is preserved.

  Mahesh Babu

  Comforting, Wealth, Increase

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• Love is the soul of every life of prayer and of every good work.

  Concepcion Cabrera de Armida

  Prayer, Love Is, Soul

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• Free will does not enable any man to perform good works, unless he is assisted by grace; indeed, the special grace which the elect alone receive through regeneration. For I stay not to consider the extravagance of those who say that grace is offered equally and promiscuously to all

  John Calvin

  Men, Grace, Special

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.235, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Nothing that's good works by itself, you've got to make the damn thing work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Damn, Damn Things

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• I'm not the writer who says, "You have to say it exactly as I wrote it," because you don't get good work. You want somebody who's going to bring something interesting to it and really create a character with you. You see that with certain actors.

  Scott Frank

  Character, Interesting, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• Were I to be the founder of a new sect, I would call them Apiarians, and, after the example of the bee, advise them to extract the honey of every sect. My fundamental principle would be ... that we are to be saved by our good works which are within our power, and not by our faith which is not within our power.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Principles, Example, Would Be

  Thomas Jefferson, Allen Jayne (1984). “The religious and moral wisdom of Thomas Jefferson: an anthology”

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• Good work is not done by 'humble' men

  G. H. Hardy

  Humble, Men, Done

  G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.66, Cambridge University Press

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• Good works are indispensable to salvation - not as its ground or means, however, but as its consequence and evidence.

  John Stott

  Mean, Salvation, Evidence

  John Stott (2014). “The Message of Ephesians”, p.1, InterVarsity Press

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• Sometimes it's hard to say no. Ultimately, if you stick to your guns, you have the career that you want. Don't get me wrong. I love a good payday and I'll do films for fun. But ultimately my main goal is to do good work. If it doesn't pay well, so be it.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Fun, Gun, Careers

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

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