Great Work Quotes - Page 16

• Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.

  Henri Nouwen

  Forgiveness, Names, People

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• If you can shoot well, all you need is a disposable, toy camera or a camera phone to create great work. If you're not talented, it doesn't matter if you buy a Nikon D3X or Leica; your work will still be uninspired.

  Ken Rockwell

  Phones, Cameras, Needs

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• Keep alive within you and bring under wise control that courage which makes you long to undertake great works, which others might consider it folly to attempt.

  Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

  Inspirational, Wise, Courage

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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. Yea, verily, and Amen! the task is tireless and its joys without bounds; for the whole Universe, and all that in it is, what is it but the infinite playground of the Crowned and Conquering Child, of the insatiable, the innocent, the ever-rejoicing Heir of Space and Eternity, whose name is MAN?

  Aleister Crowley

  Children, Men, Names

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

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• Every great work of art should be considered like any work of nature. First of all from the point of view of its aesthetic reality and then not just from its development and the mastery of its creation but from the standpoint of what has moved and agitated its creator.

  Amedeo Modigliani

  Art, Reality, Views

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• Turkey, Japan do great work because they can keep under control their little personal selfishness, egoism, jealousy, etc. when they get down to work.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Japan, Turkeys, Selfishness

  Source: overmanfoundation.wordpress.com

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• I remember when Martin Luther King was assassinated and riots broke out in the city. We celebrated Palm Sunday on 14th Street. I have a memory of walking down the street with buildings smoldering, and soldiers and cops everywhere. Anyways, it [St. Stephen’s] was a church that really taught me the things I needed to learn to not go to church. But I think it is a church that does great work, I went to a wedding there three days ago.

  Ian MacKaye

  Kings, Memories, Sunday

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I love my wife. We've had a few slings and arrows across the room, but I'm not prepared to give in, you know? People say she saved my life, but at the same time, I saved her life, as well, I think. She's a great mother, she's a great wife, she's a great worker, she's a great manager. She's just great.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Mother, Thinking, Arrows

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I was trying to foster a great working relationship between those two departments [design and the writing teams], because classically in animation the two don't get along.

  Walt Dohrn

  Team, Writing, Two

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• There are reviews that are clearly wrong. Dr. Johnson's famous Life of Savage, he's clearly wrong about the value of Savage. But it's one of the great works in English literature. You can learn more about the artistic expression and what the poet does and how to write about art from that than any number of guys who are terrible writers, who have no original ideas, but who say yes, "Hamlet" is a wonderful play. It's a meaningless statement.

  Gary Giddins

  Art, Writing, Guy

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The resurrection of Christ is one of the foundation stones of Christianity. It was the seal of the great work that He came on earth to do. It was the crowning proof that the ransom He paid for sinners was accepted, the atonement for sin accomplished, the head of him who had the power of death bruised, and the victory won.

  J. C. Ryle

  Life Changing, Victory, Foundation

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• Realism and Naturalism rely mostly on the eye of the flesh. Abstract, conceptual and surrealistic art rely mostly on the eye of the mind. Great works of art rely on the eye of contemplation, the eye of the spirit.

  Alex Grey

  Art, Eye, Mind

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• If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful rite of passage from one phase of life, one state of mind, to another. A novel, like a myth, teaches us to see the world differently; it shows us how to look into our own hearts and to see our world from a perspective that goes beyond our own self-interest.

  Karen Armstrong

  Art, Our World, Self

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• Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

  Thornton Wilder

  Inspirational, Hope, Motivation

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• In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature.

  Carl Sagan

  Art, Nature, Space

  "Contact". Book by Carl Sagan. Chapter 24, p. 431, 1985.

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• Seeing other people do great work is its own form of inspiration and far more powerful than borrowing their ideas.

  Kody Chamberlain

  Powerful, Inspiration, Ideas

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• Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspirational, Work, Commitment

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• Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Success, Courage, Work

  Florence Scovel Shinn, Laura Berman Fortgang (2015). “The Complete Game of Life and How to Play It: The Classic Text with Commentary, Study Questions, Action Items, and Much More”, p.15, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• The Great Work is, before all things, the creation of man by himself, that is to say, the full and entire conquest of his faculties and his future; it is especially the perfect emancipation of his will.

  Eliphas Levi

  Men, Creation Of Man, Perfect

  Eliphas Levi (2015). “Transcendental Magic”, p.176, Eliphas Levi

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• What an encouragement to realize that God has reserved you and me for a special task in His great work. In His hands we're not only useful, but priceless.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Encouragement, Hands, Special

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• For our personal advancement in virtue and truth one quality is sufficient, namely, love; to advance humanity there must be two, love and intelligence; to accomplish the Great Work there must be three love, intelligence, and activity. And yet love is ever the root and the source.

  Louis Claude de Saint-Martin

  Love, Inspirational, Truth

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