Best Work Quotes - Page 9

• I feel responsible that everyone has a really wonderful experience and to do the best work possible, and to always know my lines and to always be on time and to bring a level to the show in terms of quality that other people will follow.

  Julianna Margulies

  People, Quality, Levels

  "Julianna Margulies: Network Executives ‘As*holes’ For ‘Pitting Women Against Each Other’" By Jordan Zakarin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 23, 2011.

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• All I am hoping for is to be able to work-I think my best work is still ahead of me-I think all that I have been through in the last several years have only made me a better, more interesting actor.

  Mickey Rourke

  Thinking, Years, Interesting

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• As long as you do the best work that you can and not make it bland... because you're going down a lane that is trying to make everybody happy. You have to take an angle on these things.

  Gerard Butler

  Long, Trying, Lanes

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• Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Taste, Excellent, Contemplation

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann, Frédéric Jacob Soret (1850). “Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret”, p.137

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• Everyone works hard when they want to, when they get quick results, when it's convenient to put forth effort. The best work hard when they don't want to, when it's inconvenient to give it that little extra effort... and that extra effort might be just what they need to place them on top.

  Peter Vidmar

  Work, Gymnastics, Giving

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• It is always the case with the best work, that it is misrepresented, and disparaged at first, for it takes a curiously long time for new ideas to become current, and the older men who ought to be capable of taking them in freely, will not do so through prejudice.

  Francis Galton

  Hard Work, Men, Ideas

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• When creative people do their best work, they're hardly ever in charge, they're just sort of rolling along with their eyes shut yelling wheee.

  Stephen King

  Eye, Yelling, People

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• Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Thinking, World, Approval

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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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• You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jun 09, 2013

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• I'm sick of people sittin' in chairs stating their problems. Then we roll the videotape... then we have our experts on the topic... I'm in the 'What's next?' phase of my career.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Work, Passion, Careers

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• Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Inspirational, Monday

  Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.106, Cambridge University Press

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• If I feel that I'm not able to do my best work - whether that's my own fault or as a result of an editorial situation - then I need to stop doing it. I would rather not do something than do it badly or ineffectively. It's the only way I can live with myself and do right by the fans in the long haul.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Long, Fans, Needs

  "Exclusive: J. Michael Straczynski Talks About...well, Everything". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. February 1, 2011.

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• I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done.

  River Phoenix

  Meaningful, Mosquitoes, Done

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• Never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Dream, People, Aspiration

  "House Dems Face Uphill Battle to End Iraq War". The Associated Press, www.nbcnews.com. March 09, 2007.

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• The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Simple, I Can, Can Do

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• Modern man was not meant to do his best work before forty but is by nature, and is becoming more so, an afternoon and evening worker.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Men, Afternoon, Evening

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• Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had bad timing.

  Scott Adams

  Song, Hip Hop, Age

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• Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.

  Bobby Unser

  Motivational, Positive, Men

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• I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Motivational, Positive, Hard Work

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

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• Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

  Colleen Barrett

  Life, Fun, Attitude

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• All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy.

  William Hurt

  Being Happy, Committed, Knows

  "Horrible histories" by Xan Brooks, May 18, 2005.

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• Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

  Horace

  Life, Work, Hardship

  "Satires". Book by Horace, Book I, satire ix, line 59, c. 35 BC and 30 BC.

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• When you're following your energy and doing what you want all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves.

  Shakti Gawain

  Inspirational, Work, Passion

  Shakti Gawain (1993). “Living in the Light: A Guide to Personal and Planetary Transformation”, Nataraj Publishing

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• Any human being is really good at certain things. The problem is that the things you're good at come naturally. And since most people are pretty modest instead of an arrogant S.O.B. like me, what comes naturally, you don't see as a special skill. It's just you. It's what you've always done.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Work, Passion, Skills

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