Great Work Quotes - Page 8

• I think it's important to do great work.

  Kyra Sedgwick

  Thinking, Important

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• There's definitely a wave of Brits doing great work on American television, and I wouldn't mind being one of them!

  Rob James-Collier

  Mind, Television, Wave

  "'Downton Abbey' Cast Spills Secrets on Hollywood Ambitions at Season 3's U.S. Premiere". www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 10, 2012.

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• I think it's always hard for people to get their head around the fact that populist, commercial films can also actually be great works of art.

  Helen Mirren

  Art, Thinking, People

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• Only when the heart loves can the intellect do great work.

  Newell Dwight Hillis

  Heart, Learning, Intelligence

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• Those fortunate enough to find or create a practical intersection of the three circles have the basis for a great work life.

  James C. Collins

  Work, Circles, Three

  "Best new year's resolution? A 'stop doing' list" by James C. Collins, www.jimcollins.com. December 30, 2003.

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• Doing is very good, but that comes from thinking. Little manifestations of energy through the muscles are called work. But where there is no thought, there will be no work. Fill the brain, therefore, with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Night, Thinking, Brain

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.546, Manonmani Publishers

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• During my visit to the Philippines, I wanted in a particular way to meet with young people, to listen to you and to talk to you. I want to express the love and the hopes of the Church for you. And I want to encourage you as Christian citizens of this country to offer yourselves passionately and honestly to the great work of renewing your society and helping to build a better world.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Country, People

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• I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Art, Hate, Long

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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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• It was great working with Kevin Smith - just a dream.

  Guillermo Diaz

  Dream, Kevin, Just A Dream

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. February 25, 2010.

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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 because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to reverently worship the great work of Doing Nothing, that the world has lost its philosophy and even failed to invent a new religion.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Philosophy, Artist, World

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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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• 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'm not against digital photography. It's great for newspapers. And there are photographers doing great work digitally. When they use Photoshop as a darkroom tool, that's fine, too. But at this point of my life, after so many years, I don't really want to change, and I still love film.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  Photography, Years, Tools

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• For no sooner had I begun to read this great work [Frasier, The Golden Bough ], than I became immersed in it and enslaved by it. I realized then that anthropology, as presented by Sir James Frazer, is a great science, worthy of as much devotion as any of her elder and more exact sister studies, and I became bound to the service of Frazerian anthropology.

  Bronislaw Malinowski

  Science, Biographies, Golden

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• Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.

  Eugenio Montale

  Art, Narrative, Proust

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• It's great working with my sister, because we are very close as a family - my brother, my sister and myself. We have a great relationship.

  Penelope Cruz

  Family, Brother, Great Relationship

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• TV is so seductive with a great workday. You're going to work and making people laugh, and that's fantastic.

  Jillian Bach

  People, Laughing, Seductive

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• We brought him [Raffi Torres] in because he was an emotional, physical player. He's had nothing but a great attitude and a great work ethic with us all year long. He comes to play, prepares himself real well. We need him to play the way he does. You know, he's a little bit sometimes outside the box, but you've got to let him be who he is.

  Alain Vigneault

  Attitude, Real, Hockey

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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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• I guess something people wouldn't expect me to listen to are artists like Alicia Keys. But she is so incredibly talented. She has this huge voice and great work ethic, which I really respect in an artist. She is also very humble and gracious and devoted to her skill.

  Zola Jesus

  Humble, Artist, Skills

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• As a species, we are most animated when our days and nights on Earth are touched by the natural world. We can find immeasurable joy in the birth of a child, a great work of art, or falling in love.

  Richard Louv

  Falling In Love, Art, Children

  Richard Louv (2012). “The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age”, p.9, Algonquin Books

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• Many great works of art have only form, the sculpture of the thing. Color as used to signify realization by men like Titian and Rembrandt, gives greater life and tactile experience to the work.

  John French Sloan

  Art, Men, Color

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• The person who appreciates a great work of art has the feeling that the work grows in him as he becomes involved in a prolonged capturing of emerging marginal meanings. He feels that he, too, is creative, that he himself is adding to his experience and understanding. Moreover, he wants to confront the work of art many times. He is not easily tired of it, as he would be had he read a purely logical statement. He realizes that the work of art does not merely transmit information; it produces pleasure.

  Silvano Arieti

  Art, Tired, Appreciate

  Silvano Arieti (1976). “Creativity: The Magic Synthesis”, Basic Books (AZ)

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