Great Work Quotes - Page 16

• What an encouragement to realize that God has reserved you and me for a special task in His great work. In His hands we're not only useful, but priceless.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Encouragement, Hands, Special

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• As you've probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.

  Seth Godin

  Uncomfortable

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• Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and create great works of art. The world will never realize how much it owes to them and what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it.

  Marcel Proust

  Depression, Art, Thinking

  Le Cote de Guermantes (The GuermantesWay) pt. 1 (1921). George Seldes, The Great Thoughts, quotes Ramon Guthrie: "This passage was meant to show what fools people who are capable of uttering such idiocies are... . It is slap-stick irony that Proust puts into the mouth of a fool (Boulbon) in order to show what a fool he was."

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• No one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a great lover at the first attempt; and in the interval between initial failure and subsequent success, in the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation. We suffer because we cannot spontaneously master the ingredients of fulfillment.

  Alain de Botton

  Art, Pain, Envy

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• I love my wife. We've had a few slings and arrows across the room, but I'm not prepared to give in, you know? People say she saved my life, but at the same time, I saved her life, as well, I think. She's a great mother, she's a great wife, she's a great worker, she's a great manager. She's just great.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Mother, Thinking, Arrows

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Turkey, Japan do great work because they can keep under control their little personal selfishness, egoism, jealousy, etc. when they get down to work.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Japan, Turkeys, Selfishness

  Source: overmanfoundation.wordpress.com

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• No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game. ... Galois died at twenty-one, Abel at twenty-seven, Ramanujan at thirty-three, Riemann at forty. There have been men who have done great work later; ... [but] I do not know of a single instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty. ... A mathematician may still be competent enough at sixty, but it is useless to expect him to have original ideas.

  G. H. Hardy

  Art, Science, Past

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• All great works of art are trophies of victorious struggle.

  Julius Meier-Graefe

  Art, Struggle, Trophies

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• I remember when Martin Luther King was assassinated and riots broke out in the city. We celebrated Palm Sunday on 14th Street. I have a memory of walking down the street with buildings smoldering, and soldiers and cops everywhere. Anyways, it [St. Stephen’s] was a church that really taught me the things I needed to learn to not go to church. But I think it is a church that does great work, I went to a wedding there three days ago.

  Ian MacKaye

  Kings, Memories, Sunday

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Those that walk with vigor, three hours a day, will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe.

  Samuel Johnson

  Perseverance, Years, Space

  Samuel Johnson (1856). “Rasselas”, p.29

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• Realism and Naturalism rely mostly on the eye of the flesh. Abstract, conceptual and surrealistic art rely mostly on the eye of the mind. Great works of art rely on the eye of contemplation, the eye of the spirit.

  Alex Grey

  Art, Eye, Mind

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• The resurrection of Christ is one of the foundation stones of Christianity. It was the seal of the great work that He came on earth to do. It was the crowning proof that the ransom He paid for sinners was accepted, the atonement for sin accomplished, the head of him who had the power of death bruised, and the victory won.

  J. C. Ryle

  Life Changing, Victory, Foundation

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• If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful rite of passage from one phase of life, one state of mind, to another. A novel, like a myth, teaches us to see the world differently; it shows us how to look into our own hearts and to see our world from a perspective that goes beyond our own self-interest.

  Karen Armstrong

  Art, Our World, Self

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• Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

  Thornton Wilder

  Inspirational, Hope, Motivation

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• In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature.

  Carl Sagan

  Art, Nature, Space

  "Contact". Book by Carl Sagan. Chapter 24, p. 431, 1985.

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• Seeing other people do great work is its own form of inspiration and far more powerful than borrowing their ideas.

  Kody Chamberlain

  Powerful, Inspiration, Ideas

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• For our personal advancement in virtue and truth one quality is sufficient, namely, love; to advance humanity there must be two, love and intelligence; to accomplish the Great Work there must be three love, intelligence, and activity. And yet love is ever the root and the source.

  Louis Claude de Saint-Martin

  Love, Inspirational, Truth

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• Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.

  Henri Nouwen

  Forgiveness, Names, People

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• Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Success, Courage, Work

  Florence Scovel Shinn, Laura Berman Fortgang (2015). “The Complete Game of Life and How to Play It: The Classic Text with Commentary, Study Questions, Action Items, and Much More”, p.15, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• The Great Work is, before all things, the creation of man by himself, that is to say, the full and entire conquest of his faculties and his future; it is especially the perfect emancipation of his will.

  Eliphas Levi

  Men, Creation Of Man, Perfect

  Eliphas Levi (2015). “Transcendental Magic”, p.176, Eliphas Levi

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• Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspirational, Work, Commitment

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