Great Work Quotes - Page 9

• It's not about my career now. It's just about finding great work and having a good time.

  Melanie Griffith

  Careers, Good Times, Having A Good Time

  "Melanie Griffith Won’t Watch ’50 Shades of Grey’ But Rediscovers Alcoholism in ‘Thirst". Interview with Eric Kohn, www.indiewire.com. Aug 6, 2014.

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• God has created me to do him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another. I have my mission; I never may know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. I have a part in a great work; I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good, I shall do His work; I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place, while not intending it, if I do but keep His commandments and serve Him in my calling.

  John Henry Newman

  Work, Angel, Connections

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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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• Saying, have a great work-out is like saying, I hope you pull something.

  Dov Davidoff

  Work Out

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Jun 19, 2011

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• Poe had this curious kind of alchemical courage, where he took all the terrible things and terrors that happened in his life, all this shame and fear and pain, and turned them into great works of art. He was a complex, brilliant person who was just wired too tight.

  John Cusack

  Art, Pain, Brilliant

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• Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos. We, however, live in the firm conviction our times will see not the decline but the renaissance of the West. It is our proud hope and our unshakable belief Germany can make an imperishable contribution to this great work.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Europe, Light

  Adolf Hitler (1944). “Hitler's Words”

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• You should know what makes one photo brilliant and another. Why one illustration is instructive and another is banal. Why one blurb is clever and another is trying too hard. Why one video is brilliantly entertaining and another is cheesy. Bottom line: you should want to do great work with a great team-no matter the cost.

  Jason Calacanis

  Clever, Team, Illustration

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• Here is a law which is above the King and which even he must not break. This reaffirmation of a supreme law and its expression in a general charter is the great work of Magna Carta; and this alone justifies the respect in which men have held it

  Winston Churchill

  Kings, Men, Expression

  Sir Winston Churchill, Timothy Baker (1968). “The island race”

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• God waits patiently for me to wake up, grow up, come to the awareness that great works take time, that nothing truly worthwhile can be rushed... How difficult it is not to interfere, to try to take over, to go it alone. But God cannot succeed without me. God needs my whole-hearted cooperation in this work.

  Jean Royer

  Faith, Growing Up, Inspiration

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• I would love to work with Guillermo del Toro and J.J. Abrams. I think they are creative geniuses that are constantly producing great work, and they're two people that I would just love to work with.

  Fiona Gubelmann

  Thinking, Two, People

  "Fiona Gubelmann Interview WILFRED". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 16, 2011.

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• There are no rhymes or reason, actually. Having said that, you know, cause there are people who are absolutely single-minded about their process and they can still come up with great work. But (what) I enjoy and it's the same, I suppose, as I became more of a family man, I enjoy, I enjoy an atmosphere where it, you know, doesn't have to be about conflict to get good results.

  Andy Serkis

  Men, People, Atmosphere

  Source: collider.com

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• The Graces was a great experience; it's great working with women, but we weren't put together in an organic way, and I think that's why we didn't stay together. There wasn't that natural friendship.

  Meredith Brooks

  Thinking, Grace, Together

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• Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.

  George Eliot

  Believe, Leisure, Vacuums

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.834, ShandonPress

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• When a man, a woman, see their little daily tasks as integral portions of the one great work, they are no longer drudges but co-workers with God.

  Annie Besant

  Work, Men, Daily Tasks

  Annie Besant (1912). “Theosophy”, London [etc.] T. C. & E. C. Jack; New York, Dodge publishing Company [1912]

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• In the space of seven years I have succeeded in accomplishing a great work and uniting the whole world in one Empire.

  Genghis Khan

  Years, Space, World

  "The Tyrants: 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption". Book by Clive Foss, p. 55, 2006.

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• Had I made capital on my prettiness, I should have closed the doors of public employment to women for many a year, by the very means which now makes them weak, underpaid competitors in the great workshop of the world.

  Jane Swisshelm

  Beauty, Work, Mean

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• The proper response to a great work of art is to enter it as though there were nothing else in the world.

  Huston Smith

  Art, World, Response

  Huston Smith, Jeffery Paine (2012). “The Huston Smith Reader”, p.77, Univ of California Press

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• Great work is the result of seeking out tension, not avoiding it.

  Seth Godin

  Results, Tension, Avoiding

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• The process is really what you have to do day in and day out to be successful, we try to define the standard that we want everybody to sort of work toward, adhere to, and do it on a consistent basis. And the things that I talked about before, being responsible for your own self-determination, having a positive attitude, having great work ethic, having discipline to be able to execute on a consistent basis, whatever it is you're trying to do, those are the things that we try to focus on, and we don't try to focus as much on the outcomes as we do on being all that you can be.

  Nick Saban

  Determination, Attitude, Successful

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• I was taught in my Introduction to Anthropology [course in college], it is not just the great works of [hu]mankind that make a culture. It is the daily things, like what people eat and how they serve it.

  Laurie Colwin

  College, People, Culture

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• My childhood was epitomized by my parents who were uneducated but had a doctorate in love. My dad pressed coats and through my mom and dad I learned about love, family and respecting people. They never went to high school but they had within them every element that makes a great American. They had pride and a great work ethic and they knew how to do things the right way.

  Dick Vitale

  Mom, Dad, School

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• We have great work ahead of us, and it needs devotion and much, much energy. To grow, to discover, we need involvement.

  Bruce Lee

  Energy, Needs, Devotion

  "The Warrior Within: The Philosophies of Bruce Lee". Book by John R. Little, p. 126, 1996.

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• Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s was mind altering.

  Anne Lamott

  Reading, Mind, Canon

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 6, 2010.

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• I've been very fortunate, because sometimes it's difficult to work with your spouse. But in our case, it's a great working relationship, and we have complementary skills which makes it easy to work together. So I've been very fortunate in that regard.

  Anousheh Ansari

  Skills, Together, Sometimes

  Source: www.ncwit.org

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• The Life of Johnson is assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets. Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Life, Work, Firsts

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