Great Work Quotes - Page 7

• What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.

  Paulo Coelho

  Children, Vanity, Expression

  Paulo Coelho (1992). “The diary of a magus”, Harpercollins

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• I don't have any ego about it, but I find there's not a great work ethic in show business. A lot of people are in it to make money, and coming from stand-up, you have to work so hard because almost nothing works, and if you lose the audience for three minutes, you're dead.

  Norm MacDonald

  People, Work Ethic, Ego

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• I think it's a shame when you come across young actors and musicians who haven't had the time to learn their craft. It doesn't matter if it's acting or music, you really have to learn how to do it from the bottom up because unless you have a great work ethic... fame is a terrible thing to have.

  Denis Leary

  Thinking, Work Ethic, Acting

  "The End of Rescue Me, But Not Denis Leary". Interview with Nancy Doyle Palmer, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2011.

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• When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Angel, Symphony

  Madeleine L'Engle (2017). “A Severed Wasp: A Novel”, p.112, Open Road Media

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• Futurism today is led by science-fiction writers, by sociologists, by historians. Now, I have nothing against them. I'm sure they do great work. But they're not scientists. They're clueless.

  Michio Kaku

  Clueless, Fiction, Today

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• I have to say, doing theater, that's what you're trained to do. Doing film, when I first started doing it, felt like something else entirely. It felt like the difference between, I don't know, waiting tables and painting a great work of art. It's night and day. I didn't feel like it was even acting.

  Viola Davis

  Art, Night, Differences

  Source: featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com

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• A lot of times people get to a certain age and they quit. I always felt sorry for the Frank Capras, the Billy Wilders, directors like that, because they quit in their sixties. Why would you quit? Think of the great work they could've done in their sixties, seventies, and on up.

  Clint Eastwood

  Sorry, Thinking, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

  Billy Joel

  Art, Portraits, Looks

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• I want my whole life to be a great work of art, not just my art. And that means paying attention to my entire life and trying to make sure my whole life is balanced.

  Jewel

  Art, Mean, Trying

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• At Netflix, we think you have to build a sense of responsibility where people care about the enterprise. Hard work, like long hours at the office, doesn't matter as much to us. We care about great work.

  Reed Hastings

  Responsibility, Hard Work, Thinking

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• If I were a medical doctor, I would probably be a dermatologist, because they have great work-life balance. Not because I'm passionate about people's skin. They have great hours. I have friends who are dermatologists, and they tell me it's great.

  Hasan Minhaj

  Skins, Balance, Passionate

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.

  Henry Miller

  Communication, Writing, Important

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.246, New Directions Publishing

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• Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

  John N. Mitchell

  Love, Frustrated, Incentives

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• It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.

  Robert Plant

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Beauty And Love

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• If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Pleasure, Lost, Thrive

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.39, Ravenio Books

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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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• To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Work, Teaching, Learning

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• ...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.

  Helen Keller

  Understanding, Depth, Literature

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.63, Om Books International

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• If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• A perverse nature can be stimulated by anything. Any book can be used as a pornographic instrument, even a great work of literature if the mind that so uses it is off-balance. I once found a small boy masturbating in the presence of the Victorian steel-engraving in a family Bible.

  Anthony Burgess

  Sex, Book, Boys

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• In consequence of our limited ideas of the sufferings of Christ, we place a low estimate upon the great work of the atonement. The glorious plan of man's salvation was brought about through the infinite love of God the Father. In this divine plan is seen the most marvelous manifestation of the love of God to the fallen race.

  Ellen G. White

  Father, Men, Race

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• Ministers of God's choosing are engaged in a great work. They are warring not merely against men, but Satan and his angels.

  Ellen G. White

  Angel, Men, Satan

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• Ridley Scott's company makes great work in whatever arena, whether it's movies or commercials or television. They just do really quality stuff, so you know it's going to be quality.

  Rob Lowe

  Quality, Television, Stuff

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• NFL cheerleading is harder than most people think. They train up to six hours every day with games on Sundays. They gave me a great work ethic.

  Sarah Shahi

  Cheerleading, Sunday, Thinking

  "Up Close with Sarah Shahi". Interview with Kristen Aldridge, www.shape.com.

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• Culture gives us each a sense that life has meaning and that we have value - by offering us assurances of immortality. Either literally, through the heavens, the soul's afterlives or reincarnation, or by the prospect that some vestige of ourselves will persist over time - from having kids, amassing great fortunes or producing great works of art or science. Yet no culturally constructed symbolic belief system is ever powerful enough to completely eradicate the anxiety that is engendered by the awareness of death.

  Sheldon Solomon

  Art, Powerful, Kids

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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