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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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• 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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• "To fashion stars out of dog dung, that is the Great Work. To take a negative experience and, by comparing it to something worse, make it feel good, is the great skill."

  Alexandra David-Neel

  Dog, Fashion, Gratitude

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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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• 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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• No great work can be achieved by humbug. It is through love, a passion for truth, and tremendous energy, that all undertakings are accomplished.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Passion

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2851, Manonmani Publishers

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• Every great work of art has two faces, one towards its own time and one towards future, towards eternity.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Art, Future, Two

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• Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the spectator of a statue, into the very ideal presence whence these works have really originated. A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Book, Design, Secret

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 226, Literary Character, Chapter XII. Last lines, 1922.

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• One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover. Great works of art seem to look different every time one stands before them. They seem to be as inexhaustible and unpredictable as real human beings.

  Ernst Gombrich

  Art, Real, Different

  "The Story of Art". Book by Ernst Gombrich, 1950.

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• Time is the great workman of Nature.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

  Time, Nature, Science

  "Natural History, General and Particular".

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• This is the great work of a man: always to take the blame for his own sins before God, and toexpect temptation to his last breath.

  Anthony the Great

  Christian, Men, Temptation

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• Great readers, great listeners, and all have great work ethics. ... They work hard at what they do and they're devout to their reading and listening.

  Andy Wilkinson

  Reading, Hard Work, Writing

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• Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Art, Works Of Art

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Memoirs, Letters & Essays on Art, Religion and Politics: Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Resurrection, The Death of Ivan Ilych, A Confession, The Cossacks, Correspondences with Gandhi, The Kreutzer Sonata, Fables and Stories for Childrenand Many More”, p.8083, e-artnow

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• Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Thinking, Done, Performances

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• Every creative genius has been a channel. Every masterwork has been created through the channeling process. Great works are not created by the personality alone. They arise from a deep inspiration on the universal level, and are then expressed and brought into form through the individual personality.

  Shakti Gawain

  Inspiration, Creativity, Personality

  Shakti Gawain (2015). “The Shakti Gawain Essentials: 3 Books in 1: Creative Visualization, Living in the Light & Developing Intuition”, p.129, Mango Media Inc.

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• Painting is almost like a religious experience, which should go on and on. Age just gives you the freedom to do some things you've never done before. Great work can come at any stage of your life.

  Will Barnet

  Religious, Giving, Age

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• It is my greatest joy to live a really good part, even though it imposes great strain. An artist is tired but proud when he has created a great work of art. So it is with the actor who really lives a great role and is proud of the part he played.

  Conrad Veidt

  Art, Tired, Joy

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• 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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• I would have to say that I’m haunted. I’m haunted by everything that drives me. I want to do great work. I need to do great work. I won’t be satisfied unless I do great work.

  Lemon Andersen

  Needs, Want, Satisfied

  Interview with Mike Geffner, inspiredwordnyc.com.

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• The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Responsibility, Men

  "Resistance, Rebellion, and Death" by Albert Camus, "The Artist and His Time", 1960.

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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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• For while agents and editors often misunderstand their market and sometimes reject good or even great works, they do prevent a vast quantity of truly execrable writing from being published.

  Laura Miller

  Writing, Editors, Agents

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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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• The essence of that by which Jesus overcame the world was not suffering, but obedience. Yes, men may puzzle themselves and their hearers over the question where the power of the life of Jesus and the death of Jesus lay; but the soul of the Christian always knows that it lay in the obedience of Christ. He was determined at every sacrifice to do His Father's will. Let us remember that; and the power of Christ's sacrifice may enter into us, and some little share of the redemption of the world may come through us, as the great work came through Him.

  Phillips Brooks

  Christian, Friday, Jesus

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• All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.

  Walter Benjamin

  Literature, Genre

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