Good Work Quotes - Page 8

• Nothing is more false and more indiscreet than always to want to choose what mortifies us in everything. By this rule a person would soon ruin his health, his business, his reputation, his relations with his relatives and friends, in fact every good work which Providence gives him.

  Francois Fenelon

  Relatives And Friends, Giving, Want

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• People with good work habits have to-do lists that are reasonably prioritized, and they make themselves do what needs to be done. By contrast, people with poor work habits almost randomly react to the stuff that comes at them, or they can't bring themselves to do the things they need to do but don't like to do (or are unable to do).

  Ray Dalio

  People, Needs, Done

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• Though one should live through all the time from Adam and all the time to come before the judgment day doing good works, yet he who, energising in his highest, purest part, crosses from time to eternity, verily in the sight of God this man conceives and does far more than anyone who lives throughout all past and future time, because this now includes the whole of time. One master says that in crossing over time into the now each power of the soul will surpass itself. . . .

  Meister Eckhart

  Past, Men, Sight

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• Do good work and share it with people.

  Austin Kleon

  People, Share

  "Austin Kleon – Artist and Writer". IDEAMENSCH interview, ideamensch.com. March 22, 2012.

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• ...stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when if feels like all you're managing is to shovel sh*t from a sitting position.

  Stephen King

  Ideas, Stopping, Sitting

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• God opposes the proud. The way you get up front is do really good work in the back. Humility is a by product of spending time with Jesus - it is not a reflection of yourself

  Bradley Cooper

  Jesus, Humility, Reflection

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• We have had a good working relationship. He has got a tough job. We had different ideas sometimes and we got on pretty well. I have challenged him and he has challenged me. His form has been up and down and that can be tough. I suppose we've been lucky. Sourav and I complement each other. We are two different personalities. He is softer than me. I probably spoke my mind in the change rooms in a rougher way than him. Sourav and I formed an odd couple but it seems to have worked.

  John Wright

  Jobs, Couple, Ideas

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• 'Macbeth' is one of the best operas ever, and doing it was a great experience. I added some things to the opera based from my experience on the movie - such as some of the special effects and bits of film - to make it new and interesting. It was a very good work and a very good experience.

  Dario Argento

  Interesting, Special, Opera

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• I want to do movies, but I want to do something that's good. I don't want to make any more films until I feel that I'm ready for it. I want to have good work, and a very elegant life. I believe you get what you want.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Believe, I Believe, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has died, We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it lie down for an aeon or two, Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall put us to work anew!

  Rudyard Kipling

  Lying, Two, Needs

  "When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted" l. 1 (1892)

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• Unlike most great talkers, the rooks are good workers, too.

  Flora Thompson

  Talkers, Workers

  Flora Thompson (1979). “A Country Calendar, and Other Writings”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• If a man is unable to find the way to Jesus, he ought to be led. It is good work this bringing the blind to Him who alone can give them sight.

  Henry Clay Trumbull

  Jesus, Men, Sight

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 129), 1895.

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• I had to work harder. I couldn't do the social thing, and play the game the others were playing. I had to work that much harder and handle the 'evils' by doing good work.

  Charles Walters

  Hard Work, Play, Games

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• You have to free yourself from your mental conditioning through association with the holy, through doing good works, through meditating, through laughter, through love and through solitude.

  Frederick Lenz

  Laughter, Solitude, Association

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• Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.

  Aaron Spelling

  Fun, Cutting, Trying

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• Knowing that we were doing good work and the stories were good. They were original and charming. They weren't particularly violent or sexy or any of that. They were just unique and that had a good feel to it.

  Derek Jacobi

  Sexy, Unique, Knowing

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• True faith will no more fail to produce [good works] than the sun can cease to give light.

  Martin Luther

  Light, Giving, Sun

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• You make good work by (among other things) making lots of work that isn't very good, and gradually weeding out the parts that aren't good, the parts that aren't yours. It's called feedback, and it's the most direct route to learning about your own vision. It's also called doing your work. After all, someone has to do your work, and you're the closest person around.

  David Bayles

  Weed, Vision, Feedback

  David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.26, Image Continuum Press

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• I hope each day to have done 10 seconds of good work that they can use in the film. And Im always afraid I didnt get those 10 seconds.

  Louis Garrel

  Use, Done, Each Day

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• You can't be a critic by simply being a griper. One has also to search out the examples of good work.

  Wendell Berry

  Example, Critics

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• If you've got a deadline and you're an artist, you've just got to be on the case - nothing else can come in the way, or you won't make good work... the people around you just have to understand.

  Catherine Yass

  Artist, People, Priorities

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• Do good work. Don't worry about expressing yourself. Figure out what you do well and make it better.

  Thomas S. Buechner

  Worry, Advice, Express Yourself

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• There is not a good work which the hand of man has ever undertaken, which his heart has ever conceived, which does not require a good education for its helper.

  Horace Mann

  Heart, Men, Hands

  Horace Mann, William Bentley Fowle (1841). “Common School Journal”

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• I remember a very important lesson that my father gave me when I was twelve or thirteen. He said, "You know, today I welded a perfect seam and I signed my name to it." And I said, "But, Daddy, no one's going to see it!" And he said, "Yeah, but I know it's there." So when I was working in kitchens, I did good work.

  Toni Morrison

  Father, Names, Daddy

  FaceBook post by Toni Morrison from Dec 12, 2011

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• Many have been deceived by outward appearances and have proceeded to write and teach about good works and how they justify without even mentioning faith.... Wearying themselves with many works, they never come to righteousness.

  Martin Luther

  Writing, Appearance, Righteousness

  Martin Luther (2012). “Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings”, p.867, Fortress Press

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