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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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• There is no such thing as great work without longevity.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Longevity

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• I hate to see great works of literature ghettoized, whereas others that conform to the rules, conventions, and procedures of the genre we call literary fiction get accorded greater esteem and privilege. I also have a problem with how books are marketed, with certain cover designs and typefaces. They're often stamped with an identity that has nothing to do with their effect on the reader.

  Michael Chabon

  Hate, Book, Design

  Interview with Elizabeth Benefiel, www.avclub.com. July 5, 2007.

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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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• The costs of an ignorance of science are nor just practical ones like misbegotten policies, forgone cures, and a unilateral disarmament in national competitiveness. There is a moral cost as well. It is an astonishing fact about our species that we understand so much about the history of the universe. the forces that make it tick, the stuff it's made of; the origin of living things, and the machinery of life. A failure to nurture this knowledge shows a philistine indifference to the magnificent achievements humanity is capable of; like allowing a great work of art to molder in a warehouse.

  Steven Pinker

  Art, Ignorance, Achievement

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• I really think that everybody would like to be an actor. Why wouldn't they? It's great work if you can get it. The one thing that prevents most people from saying, 'I'm just gonna go to Hollywood!' is that it seems unrealistic.

  Ben Affleck

  Thinking, People, Hollywood

  "New Again: Ben Affleck". Interview with Ingrid Sischy, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 16, 2014.

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• I feel genius in great works of art. I have seen medical cures that science can't explain, some seemingly triggered by faith. The same is true of millions of other people.

  Deepak Chopra

  Art, People, Genius

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• No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

  Walter Bagehot

  Meditation And Yoga, Long, Calming

  Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot (1860). “The National Review”, p.234

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• The biggest barrier we've seen to student progress is this: School policies and practices often prevent good teachers from doing great work and even dissuade some talented Americans from entering the profession. This needs to change.

  Eli Broad

  Teacher, School, Practice

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• Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and this is its whole secret.

  Albert Camus

  Secret, Faces, Admirable

  "Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays".

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• If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

  Samuel Johnson

  Motivational, Perseverance, Determination

  Samuel Johnson (1834). “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: A Tale”, p.14

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• A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting - poof! - that they're going to produce great work.

  Anne Sweeney

  Jobs, Focus, Leader

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• The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.

  Jay Chiat

  Team, Mean, Organization

  "Virtual Chiat". Interview with David Dix, www.wired.com. July 1, 1994.

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• It didn't feel difficult at the time because I was so charged up about both books. Afterward, however, I was pretty tired. In a good way, like after a great workout.

  Jonathan Kellerman

  Workout, Book, Tired

  Interview with Carol Fitzgerald, Joe Hartlaub and Wiley Saichek, www.bookreporter.com. November 21, 2003.

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• In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Mozart symphony, or any other great work of art.

  E. O. Wilson

  Art, Science, Symphony

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• All great work artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual is produced at those moments when creators forget themselves altogether and are free from self-consciousness.

  Walpola Rahula

  Spiritual, Self, Intellectual

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• The world is deathly ill. It is dying. The Great Physician has already signed the death certificate. Yet, there is still a great work for Christians to do. They are to be streams of living water, channels of mercy to those who are still in the world. It is possible for them to do this because they are overcomers.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Christian, Water, Dying

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• The Quest of the Holy Grail, the Search for the Stone of the Philosophers-by whatever name we choose to call the Great Work-is therefore endless. Success only opens up new avenues of brilliant possibility.

  Aleister Crowley

  Names, Holy Grail, Quests

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Little Essays Toward Truth”

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• I am driven by great work and seeing people do incredible things and having a part in that.

  Tim Cook

  People, Incredibles, Driven

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• A great work of art is one that truly moves and inspires you. You yourself must be moved. Don't look at art with others' eyes. Don't listen to music with others' ears. You must react to art with your own feelings, your own heart and mind.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Art, Moving, Eye

  "Faith Into Action: Thoughts on Selected Topics". Book by Daisaku Ikeda, 1999.

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• The instinct to produce great work doesn't require a fancy notebook.

  Seth Godin

  Notebook, Fancy, Instinct

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• The Lord has a great work for each of us to do. You may wonder how this can be. You may feel that there is nothing special or superior about you or your ability. ... The Lord can do remarkable miracles with a person of ordinary ability who is humble, faithful, and diligent in serving the Lord and seeks to improve himself. This is because God is the ultimate source of power.

  James E. Faust

  Humble, Miracle, Faithful

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• Our best work can't possibly appeal to the average masses, only our average work can. Finding the humility to happily walk away from those that don't get it unlocks our ability to do great work.

  Seth Godin

  Humility, Average, Mass

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• Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work. Few things will make you feel better than a job brilliantly done.

  Robin Sharma

  Morning, Jobs, Feel Better

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• It is easy to believe that life is long and one's gifts are vast -- easy at the beginning, that is. But the limits of life grow more evident; it becomes clear that great work can be done rarely, if at all.

  Alfred Adler

  Believe, Long, Done

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