Great Work Quotes - Page 12

• I've worked with genius performers. Sometimes they created great work with a bad script... but not often. Play it safe: write well.

  Jerry Juhl

  Writing, Play, Genius

  Biography/Pesonal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When God contemplates some great work, He begins it by the hand of some poor, weak, human creature, to whom He afterwards gives aid.

  Martin Luther

  Hands, Giving, Poor

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.32

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• It's great working with directors and with somebody else's vision.

  James Iha

  Vision, Directors

  "James Iha on Scoring James Franco’s ‘Mother, May I Sleep with Danger?’". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 17, 2016.

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• When you have great working relationships with people, both collaborative and creatively, everybody will always want to work together.

  Edward Kitsis

  People, Working Together, Want

  "Dead of Summer: Once Upon a Time bosses trade fairytales for nightmares". Interview with Natalie Abrams, ew.com. June 27, 2016.

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• Acting is kind of a calling for me so I'm just happy to be there and do great work.

  John Leguizamo

  Acting, Calling, Kind

  Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2016.

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• Hermeticism is the science of nature hidden in the hieroglyphics and symbols of the ancient world. It is the search for the principle of life, along with the dream (for those who have not yet achieved it) of accomplishing the great work, that is the reproduction by man of the divine, natural fire which creates and recreates beings.

  Eliphas Levi

  Dream, Men, Fire

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• If all the people around you are happy with you, you are not doing great work. When you stop being like other people, they stop liking you. That's just how it goes. There's no escaping it. And it's okay. What you need to understand about that disapproval is that it's a sign you're doing something right.

  Darren Hardy

  Escaping, People, Needs

  Darren Hardy (2015). “The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster: Why Now Is the Time to #Join the Ride”, p.57, Greenleaf Book Group

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• I suppose I get a lot of questions about Tiger. But Tiger Woods is a tremendous talent. He plays well. He has a great work ethic. He's probably as talented of a golfer as anyone who's ever played.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Play, Work Ethic, Woods

  Source: www.nicklaus.com

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• We're being very good team players here and very happy we've got a great working relationship with Reince Priebus and the RNC. They've been spectacular to us.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Team, Player, Very Good

  "Anderson Cooper Interview With Kellyanne Conway Says Hillary Clinton Has Been Fighting For Herself For 30 Years". Interview With Anderson Cooper, lybio.net.

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• Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our own spontaneous expression with good humored inflexibility whether the whole cry of voices is on the other side.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Expression, Voice

  "Self-Reliance". Essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841.

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• Great work comes from great joy. Leave the angst for the movies; do art - that is fun.

  Jack White

  Art, Fun, Joy

  Jack White (2013). “Mystery of Making It: Reveals the Secrets of Marketing Art-How Artist Senkarik Sold the First Piece in 1980 and has Exceeded $7 Million in Sales”, p.18, Lulu Press, Inc

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• We goofed around a lot and acted silly. It was great working with Mark Wahlberg too. Some off scenes I had with him I was terrified to do, but he was great.

  Laura Vandervoort

  Silly, Scene, Mark

  Source: www.discdish.com

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• If you do the bare minimum, expect bare minimum results. You want to be great, work to be great. Nothing just happens

  J. J. Watt

  Want, Results, Minimum

  Twitter post from Feb 20, 2014

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• I did some great work with my Calvin Klein ads on the motorcycle. It was really groundbreaking because people hadn't seen a woman actually riding a motorcycle before.

  Carre Otis

  People, Motorcycle, Riding

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• until you learn that an artist cannot afford to scorn any phase of life that is human, you will never do great work.

  Marjorie Benton Cooke

  Creativity, Artist, Phases

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• A visionary company is like a great work of art. Think of Michelangelo's scenes from Genesis on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel or his statue of David. Think of a great and enduring novel like Huckleberry Finn or Crime and Punishment. Think of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony or Shakespeare's Henry V. Think of a beautifully designed building, like the masterpieces of Frank Lloyd Wright or Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. You can't point to any one single item that makes the whole thing work; it's the entire work-all the pieces working together to create an overall effect-that leads to enduring greatness.

  John C. Maxwell

  Art, Greatness, Thinking

  John C. Maxwell (2003). “Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work”, p.15, Hachette UK

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• People are so cheap. Everyone wants quality, no one wants to pay for it. Here's the suburban dream-- to hire great workers who are such meek morons that they don't have the guts to ask for a living wage.

  Joan Bauer

  Dream, People, Quality

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• If I am practicing spiritual poverty, which says that I own nothing, then the problems aren't mine and neither are the energy and compassion pouring through my heart to try to solve them. I am just a link in the process. If I don't take anything personally, then I can do great work without flagging. The Dalai Lama once said, 'Try with all your might - to work very, very hard - to make the world a better place, and if all your efforts are to no avail . . . no hard feelings!'

  Bo Lozoff

  Spiritual, Heart, Compassion

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• I look for people who have raw intelligence and a great work ethic and loyalty, and I can quickly identify people who have the right ingredients. But sometimes it is more difficult to get them to accept the fact that they can take on increasing responsibility. Oftentimes individuals will decide how far [they] go by how much work they're willing to put in and how quick they are to ask for help. Too many people have this deep-seated fear that if they ask for help, they will be thought less of.

  Hillary Clinton

  Loyalty, Responsibility, People

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The ancients of the ideal description, instead of trying to turn their impracticable chimeras, as does the modern dreamer, into social and political prodigies, deposited them in great works of art, which still live while states and constitutions have perished, bequeathing to posterity not shameful defects but triumphant successes.

  Herman Melville

  Art, Political, Dreamer

  Herman Melville (1987). “Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition”, p.409, Northwestern University Press

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• I'm not a popular actor. I don't necessarily want to be famous. I want to be known for great work. I want to be known to surprise audiences.

  Idris Elba

  Actors, Want, Surprise

  "Idris Elba Talks PROMETHEUS, PACIFIC RIM, THOR 2, LUTHER Season 3, Preparing to Play Nelson Mandela and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 6, 2012.

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• There are people who buy pictures because they were difficult to do, and are done. Such pictures are often only a record of pain and dull perseverance. Great works of art should look as though they were made in joy. Real joy is a tremendous activity, dull drudgery is nothing to it.

  Robert Henri

  Perseverance, Art, Pain

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• The first great work (a task performed by few)
  Is that yourself may to yourself be true.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Truth, Tasks, May

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• Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Creative, Speed, Creation

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• I idolized all of the bodybuilders who came from that old-school hardcore era. Those guys didn't need any fancy equipment; they trained with intensity and focus, regardless of the gym or other limitations. These guys could do presses with pails full of cement and still get a great workout.

  Mike Matarazzo

  Workout, School, Focus

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