Great Work Quotes - Page 14

• Ideas in art may be quite evident, and sometimes they're hidden. Sometimes they're simple, and sometimes they're quite complex. Great works of art can be based on very simple ideas, but it's all in the making, isn't it? It's in the facture.

  Philip Taaffe

  Art, Simple, Sometimes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am great at delegating when someone is doing great work. The problem - and this sounds terrible - is that there are very few people who are strong enough for you to be able to delegate to.

  Tom Ford

  Strong, People, Problem

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

  Samuel Johnson

  Motivational, Perseverance, Determination

  Samuel Johnson (1834). “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: A Tale”, p.14

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• The Saga of Dharmapuri is one of the great works of modern Indian literature. (...) Set against Vijayan's heroic and scatological Candide -- originally written in Malayalam and finely translated into English by the author -- the timidity of our own English talent for political satire is embarrassingly laid bare. For this is dangerous stuff, and cut close to the bone. (...) Fiercest of all is Vijayan's Voltairean recoil from Indian cringing to power.

  David Selbourne

  Cutting, Political, Literature

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• Do not be discouraged on account of the greatness of the work; only be humble and faithful. . . . He who scattered Israel has promised to gather them; therefore inasmuch as you are to be instrumental in this great work, He will endow you with power, wisdom, might, and intelligence, and every qualification necessary.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Inspirational, Faith, God

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• The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.

  Jay Chiat

  Team, Mean, Organization

  "Virtual Chiat". Interview with David Dix, www.wired.com. July 1, 1994.

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• All My Children taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera! It is a good way to start in the business, get success without getting a big head and learn your craft.

  Eva LaRue

  Children, Work Ethic, Crafts

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• I am driven by great work and seeing people do incredible things and having a part in that.

  Tim Cook

  People, Incredibles, Driven

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• The Quest of the Holy Grail, the Search for the Stone of the Philosophers-by whatever name we choose to call the Great Work-is therefore endless. Success only opens up new avenues of brilliant possibility.

  Aleister Crowley

  Names, Holy Grail, Quests

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Little Essays Toward Truth”

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• The world is deathly ill. It is dying. The Great Physician has already signed the death certificate. Yet, there is still a great work for Christians to do. They are to be streams of living water, channels of mercy to those who are still in the world. It is possible for them to do this because they are overcomers.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Christian, Water, Dying

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• Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work. Few things will make you feel better than a job brilliantly done.

  Robin Sharma

  Morning, Jobs, Feel Better

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• Our best work can't possibly appeal to the average masses, only our average work can. Finding the humility to happily walk away from those that don't get it unlocks our ability to do great work.

  Seth Godin

  Humility, Average, Mass

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• Political correctness sometimes does great work when it helps equalize the playing field when it comes to language, but it does a great disservice when it tries to silence a person of color.

  Margaret Cho

  Color, Political, Silence

  "Margaret Cho Has Gone 'PsyCHO': Talking Donald Trump, Surviving Rape & More". Interview with Kevin Fallon, www.thedailybeast.com. September 25, 2015.

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• The Lord has a great work for each of us to do. You may wonder how this can be. You may feel that there is nothing special or superior about you or your ability. ... The Lord can do remarkable miracles with a person of ordinary ability who is humble, faithful, and diligent in serving the Lord and seeks to improve himself. This is because God is the ultimate source of power.

  James E. Faust

  Humble, Miracle, Faithful

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• All great work artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual is produced at those moments when creators forget themselves altogether and are free from self-consciousness.

  Walpola Rahula

  Spiritual, Self, Intellectual

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• The instinct to produce great work doesn't require a fancy notebook.

  Seth Godin

  Notebook, Fancy, Instinct

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• In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Mozart symphony, or any other great work of art.

  E. O. Wilson

  Art, Science, Symphony

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• In summary, all great work is the fruit of patience and perseverance, combined with tenacious concentration on a subject over a period of months or years.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Patience, Perseverance, Work

  Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Neely Swanson, Larry W. Swanson (2004). “Advice for a Young Investigator”, p.64, MIT Press

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• What is truth? What is falsehood? Whatever gives wings to men, whatever produces great works and great souls and lifts up a man's height above the earth - that's true. Whatever clips off man's wings - that's false.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Men, Wings, Giving

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Peter Bien (1988). “The Last Temptation of Christ”, p.477, Simon and Schuster

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• By being impatient, matters are damaged and great works cannot be done

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Done, Matter, Impatient

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.85, Bottom of the Hill

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• Zalasiewicz is convinced that even a moderately competent stratigrapher will, at the distance of a hundred million years or so, be able to tell that something extraordinary happened at the moment in time that counts for us as today. This is the case even though a hundred million years from now, all that we consider to be the great works of man—the sculptures and the libraries, the monuments and the museums, the cities and the factories—will be compressed into a layer of sediment not much thicker than a cigarette paper.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Distance, Men, Museums

  Elizabeth Kolbert (2014). “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History”, p.64, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• This world is not a place merely to live in, nor a place in which to do certain kinds of business; it is a great workshop in which to make godly men.

  J.R. Miller

  Godly, Men, World

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• Beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others' "fads" through the greed of getting supporters. Your Âtman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of? Wait with patience and love and strength; if helpers are not ready now, they will come in time. Why should we be in a hurry? The real working force of all great work is in its almost unperceived beginnings.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Mean, Support

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1678, Manonmani Publishers

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• It is easy to believe that life is long and one's gifts are vast -- easy at the beginning, that is. But the limits of life grow more evident; it becomes clear that great work can be done rarely, if at all.

  Alfred Adler

  Believe, Long, Done

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• It didn't feel difficult at the time because I was so charged up about both books. Afterward, however, I was pretty tired. In a good way, like after a great workout.

  Jonathan Kellerman

  Workout, Book, Tired

  Interview with Carol Fitzgerald, Joe Hartlaub and Wiley Saichek, www.bookreporter.com. November 21, 2003.

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