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• By the time I got to be director of product management at Thomas-Conrad, I was in a better negotiating position, as I had accumulated more accomplishments and gained a reputation for having a great work ethic.

  Maynard Webb

  Accomplishment, Work Ethic, Directors

  Maynard Webb, Carlye Adler (2013). “Rebooting Work: Transform How You Work in the Age of Entrepreneurship”, p.39, John Wiley & Sons

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• I guess maybe another gift I have is a great work ethic.

  Vince McMahon

  Work Ethic, Ethics, Great Work Ethic

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• James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.

  Edward Abbey

  Tombstone, Dead Ends, Buried

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• There is no best anything in art. Phillip [Hoffman] isn't better than Heath [Ledger]; Joaquin [Phoenix] isn't better than David [Strathairn] or Terence [Howard]. They aren't better than me. We all do different things. It's more of a celebration of a lot of great work than to give the gold to somebody. The underappreciated factor certainly has gone away.

  Jeff Daniels

  Art, Gone Away, Phoenix

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Work

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.140, Vivekananda Kendra

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• God shapes the world by prayer. The prayers of God's saints are the capitol stock of heaven by which God carries on His great work upon the earth.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Heaven, Saint

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• On what high-performing companies should be striving to create: A great place for great people to do great work.

  Marilyn C. Nelson

  Appreciation, People, Engagement

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• If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work, then I was never an artist.

  Ellen Terry

  Sweet, Art, Lost Love

  Dame Ellen Terry (1908). “The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections”

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• To create great work, here's how you must spend your time:
  1% Inspiration
  9% Perspiration
  90% Justification

  George Lois

  Inspiration, Design, Justification

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• Jesus was a great worker, and His disciples must not be afraid of hard work.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Hard Work, Workers

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.1396, Barbour Publishing

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• Every great work of art ... is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life.

  Azar Nafisi

  Art, Betrayal, Infidelity

  Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.47, Random House

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• It is the great work of nature to transmute sunlight into life. So it is the great end of Christian living to transmute the light of truth into the fruits of holy living.

  Adoniram Judson Gordon

  Christian, Light, Fruit

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• Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Writing, Greatness, Men

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• I don't like the fact that no one has any imagination anymore. It doesn't pay to be a dreamer because all they really want you to do is answer the phone. Nobody wants you to think about anything new or use your brain or make anything interesting because everything important has already been made. America is over; it's done being brilliant.Everything genius has already been built, like all the great works of art have already been produced.

  Joe Meno

  Art, Thinking, Phones

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• The Great Work now, as we move into a new millennium, is to carry out the transition from a period of human devastation of the Earth to a period when humans would be present to the planet in a mutually beneficial manner.

  Thomas Berry

  Moving, Transition, Would Be

  Thomas Berry (2011). “The Great Work: Our Way into the Future”, p.3, Crown

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• I want kids to enjoy skating and I think it's a great workout.

  Oksana Baiul

  Sports, Workout, Kids

  Q&As, www.goldenskate.com. March 7, 2003.

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• A great work of art is one that continues to repay attention.

  Christopher Ricks

  Art, Attention, Pay Attention

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• Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process.

  Joseph Priestley

  Mind, Might, Steps

  Joseph Priestley, John Towill Rutt (1831). “The Theological and Miscellaneous Works. Ed. with Notes by John Towill Rutt”, p.346

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• The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed by our rebels to the horrible squareness of our institutions, the idiocy of power, the debasement of sexual instincts, and the failure of writers to be alienated enough. The poems and novels of these same rebellious spirits, and their theoretical statements, are grimy and gritty and very boring too, besides being nonsensical, and it is evident by now that polymorphous sexuality and vehement declarations of alienation are not going to produce great works of art either.

  Saul Bellow

  Art, America, Poetry

  Saul Bellow (2015). “There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction”, p.149, Penguin

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• There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions and tell us they’re not really answerable. I draw on art and literature, and music in particular, because music is a wonderful example of something that’s in this world but not of this world. Great works of music speak to us from another realm even though they speak to us in ordinary physical sounds.

  Roger Scruton

  Art, Real, Trying

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• That, of course, is what great works of imagination do for us: They make us a little restless, destabilize us, question our preconceived notions and formulas.

  Azar Nafisi

  Imagination, Littles, Restless

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• If you are not skillful enough to sketch a man jumping out of a window in the time it takes him to fall from the fourth storey to the ground, you will never be able to produce great works.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Fall, Men, Jumping

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• Heaven is weary of the luxury of China. I shall remain in the wilderness of the north. I shall return to simplicity and moderations once again. As for the clothes I wear and the food I eat, I shall have the same as cowherds and grooms and I shall treat my soldiers as brothers. In a hundred battles I have been at the forefront and within seven years I have performed a great work, for in six directions of space all things are subject to one ruler.

  Genghis Khan

  Brother, Luxury, Clothes

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• The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.

  Karl Jaspers

  Philosophy, Understanding, Essentials

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• But can they [great works] get rid of the worm that lies gnawing at the roots of my heart? No, never.

  Edvard Munch

  Lying, Heart, Roots

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