Best Work Quotes - Page 3

• I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

  Stephen Leacock

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.91, University of Toronto Press

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• Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Attributed in "Forbes", Volume 102, 1968.

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• A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.

  Fats Domino

  Inspirational, Funny, Education

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

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• I believe that if creative people are open and generous enough when working with each other, a lot more can be learned and achieved by both parties. That's what it's all about, trying to produce the best work possible on any given project.

  William Kempe

  Party, Believe, People

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• In what I do for a living, trust and confidence are key. Inevitably, you can't make brave choices and do your best work, if you don't have those, because it's such a subjective art form, and you don't have eyes on yourself.

  David Oyelowo

  Art, Eye, Keys

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Look at the sunny side of everything & and make your optimisom come true. Think only of the best, work only for the best. Forget the mistakes of the past & press on the greater achievements of the future. Give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to critize others. Live in the faith that the whole world is on your side as long as you are true to the best that is in you.

  Christian D. Larson

  Faith, Strong, Mistake

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• A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes a lot of hard work.

  Ozwald Boateng

  Dream, Determination, Work

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• I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.

  Sting

  Pain, Turmoil

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• I don't see money or a particular status as an actor as a goal, but I want to do the best work I can in as interesting a range of roles as I can.

  Dan Stevens

  Goal, Interesting, Roles

  "'Leaving Downton Abbey is liberating but also sad': Heart-throb Dan Stevens on his plans after Christmas Day exit" by Mark Jefferies, www.mirror.co.uk. December 27, 2012.

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• When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Appropriate Technology: A Focus for the Nineties". Book by Robert William Stevens, 1991.

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• God does some of God's best work with people who are seriously lost.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  People, Doe, Lost

  Barbara Brown Taylor (2009). “An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith”, p.73, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that and then I put it out there and say to you, "What do you think?" I hope that you think well of it, obviously.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, Trying, Literature

  "I'm returning to India, deal with it - Salman Rushdie to NDTV". Interview with Barkha Dutt, www.ndtv.com. January 25, 2012.

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• Whether the task is writing, design, or hanging a picture straight, it is obvious that we do our best work when healthy, rested, refreshed, alert, and eager to do the job for its own sake.

  Jeffrey Zeldman

  Jobs, Writing, Design

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• You are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe the masses.

  Seth Godin

  Delight, Mass, Willing

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• People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Business

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• I feel that my job is to create an atmosphere where creative people can do their best work.

  John Frankenheimer

  Jobs, People, Creative

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

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• I think my best work is when I'm kind of in charge.

  Chris Rock

  Thinking, Kind

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. March 28, 2003.

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• By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Oil, Definitions

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• I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work before you're forty-five. Having passed that significant date, I thought I would do something else.

  John Polkinghorne

  Sides, Significant, Mathematical

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• I’ve discovered that my best work comes from the uncomfortable but fruitful feeling of not having a clue – of being worried, secretly afraid, even convinced that I’m on the wrong track.

  Dani Shapiro

  Track, Feelings, Clue

  Dani Shapiro (2013). “Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life”, p.51, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I've been on antidepressants for years, and it worked to stop my anxiety and didn't limit creativity. Some of the best work I've done, in fact, is after I started taking the antidepressants.

  Temple Grandin

  Creativity, Years, Anxiety

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Let us not torment each other because we are not all alike, but believe that God knew best what He was doing in making us so different. So will the best harmony come out of seeming discords, the best affection out of differences, the best life out of struggle, and the best work will be done when each does his own work, and lets every one else do and be what God made him for.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Believe, Struggle, Differences

  James Freeman Clarke (1880). “Self-culture, lectures”

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• If the reader enters a kind of immersive experience reading a book, then I have to enter a kind of immersive state to do my best work.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Book, Reading, Kind

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• If you do the best work you can, the reward is ultimately your self-satisfaction - the sense that you have done the best you can. And then there's that piece of how others respond.

  Jerry Pinkney

  Self, Done, Pieces

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• It seems to me that the best work I've done - and maybe this is something other people can identify with - was because it was an end in itself. It was something other than making ends meet, it was an escape from all that.

  John Maus

  People, Done, Ends

  Source: pitchfork.com

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