Good Work Quotes - Page 9

• You may write twenty lines one day--or even three like Euripides in three days--and a hundred lines in one more day--and yet on the hundred, may have been expended as much good work, as on the twenty and the three.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Writing, One Day, Twenties

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2009). “The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846”, p.37, The Floating Press

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• Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Tiny, Twinkling, Galaxy

  Wisława Szymborska (1981). “Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts: Seventy Poems”, p.109, Princeton University Press

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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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• Girded with faith and the performance of good works, let us follow in his [Jesus] paths by the guidance of the Gospel.

  Benedict of Nursia

  Jesus, Catholic, Path

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• Because knowledge is not for showing off. If I do good work, people should notice me.

  Chetan Bhagat

  Good Morning, People, Should

  Chetan Bhagat (2009). “2 States: The Story of My Marriage”, p.169, Sandesh S

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• Do good work. Don't worry about expressing yourself. Figure out what you do well and make it better.

  Thomas S. Buechner

  Worry, Advice, Express Yourself

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• I'm very proud of being Jewish. It means I have a good work ethic, and you get Jewish humour and you're allowed to tell Jewish jokes.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Mean, Work Ethic, Proud

  Guardian interview, July 4, 2009.

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• The thing that really breeds career longevity in this profession is doing good work. You can make $20 million a movie, but does that mean you'll still have a job when you're 60? It's a profession that eats people up and wants constant turnaround, so you have to dedicate yourself to learning and making the most of whatever gift you may have.

  Ethan Hawke

  Jobs, Mean, Careers

  "'Hamlet's' Ethan Hawke Has More on His Mind Than Movie Stardom". Interview with Robert Dominguez, www.nydailynews.com. May 11, 2000.

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• On any Tuesday morning, if asked, a good working scientist will tell you with some self-satisfaction that the affairs of his field are nicely in order, that things are finally looking clear and making sense, and all is well. But come back again on another Tuesday, and the roof may have just fallen in on his life's work.

  Lewis Thomas

  Morning, Self, Order

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• We put pride into everything like salt. We like to see that our good works are known. If our virtues are seen, we are pleased; if our faults are perceived, we are sad. I remark that in a great many people; if one says anything to them, it disturbs them, it annoys them. The saints were not like that - they were vexed if their virtues were known, and pleased that their imperfections should be seen.

  John Vianney

  Pride, People, Imperfection

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• Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores. Other times I have joys, when unexpectedly coming upon an outrageous story that may not be altogether a lie, or upon a macabre little thing that may make some reviewer of my more or less good works mad. But always there is present a feeling of unexplained relations of events that I note, and it is this far-away, haunting, or often taunting, awareness, or suspicion, that keeps me piling on.

  Charles Fort

  Lying, Data, Mad

  Charles Fort (2014). “Wild Talents”, p.35, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• For me, temperance is essential to good work.

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Essentials, Moderation, Temperance

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• The cause being finite, the effect must be finite. If the cause is eternal the effect can be eternal, but all these causes, doing good work, and all other things, are only finite causes, and as such cannot produce infinite result.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Causes, Infinite, Doing Good

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.20, editionNEXT.com

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• We need art as much as we need good works. You need it like food. You need it for inspiration to keep going on the days that your low. We need each other in that way.

  Meryl Streep

  Art, Inspiration, Needs

  "Oscar Nominated Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci Cook It Up Over Julie & Julia". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 6, 2010.

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• Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Memorial, Tablets, Firsts

  Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.160, Courier Corporation

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• For every shrill and violent voice that throws itself in front of microphones and cameras in the name of God, there are countless lives of gentleness and good works who will not. We need to see and hear them, as well, to understand the whole story of religion in our world.

  Krista Tippett

  Our World, Names, Voice

  Krista Tippett (2008). “Speaking of Faith: Why Religion Matters--and How to Talk About It”, p.22, Penguin

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• When you have such a good workout, it clears everything up mentally, physically, and you just have a better day.

  Minka Kelly

  Workout, Cycling, Better Days

  "Minka Kelly's Diet and Workout Tips" By Ashley Mateo, www.self.com. March 16, 2011.

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• It's all about finding and hiring people smarter than you. Getting them to join your business. And giving them good work. Then getting out of their way. And trusting them. You have to get out of the way so YOU can focus on the bigger vision. That's important. And here's the main thing....you must make them see their work as a MISSION.

  Richard Branson

  People, Giving, Focus

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• Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don't make compromises. Don't worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned with doing good work and make the right choices and protect your work. And if you can build a good name, eventually, that name will be its own currency.

  William S. Burroughs

  Successful, Names, Worry

  "Patti Smith: Advice to the Young". Patti Smith's interview with Christian Lund at the Louisiana Literature festival at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, vimeo.com. August 24, 2012.

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• There is not a point that needs to be dwelt upon more earnestly, repeated more frequently, or established more firmly in the minds of all than the impossibility of fallen man meriting anything by his own best good works. Salvation is through faith in Jesus Christ alone.

  Ellen G. White

  Jesus, Men, Mind

  Ellen G. White (2003). “Faith and Works”, p.19, Review and Herald Pub Assoc

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• Unlike most great talkers, the rooks are good workers, too.

  Flora Thompson

  Talkers, Workers

  Flora Thompson (1979). “A Country Calendar, and Other Writings”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• If a man is unable to find the way to Jesus, he ought to be led. It is good work this bringing the blind to Him who alone can give them sight.

  Henry Clay Trumbull

  Jesus, Men, Sight

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 129), 1895.

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• You have to free yourself from your mental conditioning through association with the holy, through doing good works, through meditating, through laughter, through love and through solitude.

  Frederick Lenz

  Laughter, Solitude, Association

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• Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.

  Aaron Spelling

  Fun, Cutting, Trying

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• Knowing that we were doing good work and the stories were good. They were original and charming. They weren't particularly violent or sexy or any of that. They were just unique and that had a good feel to it.

  Derek Jacobi

  Sexy, Unique, Knowing

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