Great Work Quotes - Page 2

• The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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

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• Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

  Lucille Ball

  Inspirational, Motivational, Uplifting

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• The great work of art is the complete banality, and the fault with most banalities is that they are not banal enough. Banality here is not infinite in its depth and consequence, but rests on a foundation of spirituality and aesthetics.

  Asger Jorn

  Art, Foundation, Depth

  Asger Jorn, Per Hovdenakk, Stine Høholt, Arken museum for moderne kunst (Ishøj, Denmark), Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands) (2002). “Asger Jorn”

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• Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Character, Long

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.22, Advaita Ashrama

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• Your greatest creation is yourself. Like any great work of art, creating a great self means putting in hard work, every day, for years.

  Vi Hart

  Art, Hard Work, Mean

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• To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Doubt, Good Work

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• Art begins where technique ends. There can be no real art development before one's technique is firmly established. And a great deal of technical work has to be done before the great works of violin literature, the sonatas and concertos, may be approached.

  Leopold Auer

  Art, Real, Technique

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• Virtually every subject is most effectively learned directly from the greatest thinkers, historians, artists, philosophers, scientists, prophets and their original works. Great works inspire greatness. Mediocre or poor works inspire mediocre or poor learning. The great accomplishments of humanity are the key to quality education.

  Oliver DeMille

  Artist, Greatness, Keys

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• When Arnold Schwarzenegger goes to his reward - how's that? That's a crack, but I treat Governor Schwarzenegger well in my book. He's done such great work in California; we'll forgive him one personal habit. Everybody should have one not-totally-CO2-friendly habit they can be forgiven for. So we'll forgive him that one.

  Jay Inslee

  Book, California, Should Have

  "Power Q&A: Rep. Jay Inslee". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2008.

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• The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Ecstasy, Unworthy

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1965). “The Philosophy of Nietzsche”, Signet Book

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• If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different to you and me. So let's have no talk of temperamental, self-absorbed and petulant babies. Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it on. I love them all.

  Charles Saatchi

  Baby, Art, Jobs

  Charles Saatchi (2012). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I am an Artoholic. New Extended Edition: Questions from Journalists and Readers”, p.59

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• If continually people look and look and always come away enriched, then it's a great work

  Wendy Beckett

  People, Looks, Ifs

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• A pro is someone who can do great work when he doesn't feel like it.

  Alastair Cook

  Feels, Can Do

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• People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. I stopped in the middle of the SAT to memorize a poem, because I thought, This is a great work of art and I'll never see it again.

  Mary Karr

  Art, Ideas, People

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• Ultimately, if you are doing great work, the money will come.

  Lee Clow

  Ifs

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• The Holy Spirit is a great worker, not a 'trade unionist.' He is a great worker, and He works in us, always. He does this work of explaining the mystery of Jesus, and of giving us this sense of Christ.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Giving, Doe

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• The pursuit of science, the study of the great works, the value of free inquiry, in short, the very idea of living the life of the mind - yes, these formative and abiding principles of higher education in America had their first and firmest advocate, and their greatest embodiment, in a tall, fair-headed, friendly man who watched this university take form from the mountainside where he lived, the university whose founding he called a crowning achievement to along and well-spent life.

  Ronald Reagan

  Live Life, Men, Ideas

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1991). “Ronald Reagan”

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• No great work of art is ever finished.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Finished, Art Is

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• Perhaps only silence and love do justice to a great work of art

  Dominique de Menil

  Art, Justice, Silence

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• For no sooner had I begun to read this great work [Frasier, The Golden Bough ], than I became immersed in it and enslaved by it. I realized then that anthropology, as presented by Sir James Frazer, is a great science, worthy of as much devotion as any of her elder and more exact sister studies, and I became bound to the service of Frazerian anthropology.

  Bronislaw Malinowski

  Science, Biographies, Golden

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• The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed by our rebels to the horrible squareness of our institutions, the idiocy of power, the debasement of sexual instincts, and the failure of writers to be alienated enough. The poems and novels of these same rebellious spirits, and their theoretical statements, are grimy and gritty and very boring too, besides being nonsensical, and it is evident by now that polymorphous sexuality and vehement declarations of alienation are not going to produce great works of art either.

  Saul Bellow

  Art, America, Poetry

  Saul Bellow (2015). “There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction”, p.149, Penguin

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• It is because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to reverently worship the great work of Doing Nothing, that the world has lost its philosophy and even failed to invent a new religion.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Philosophy, Artist, World

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• Every great work of art ... is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life.

  Azar Nafisi

  Art, Betrayal, Infidelity

  Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.47, Random House

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• Jesus was a great worker, and His disciples must not be afraid of hard work.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Hard Work, Workers

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.1396, Barbour Publishing

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• Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Writing, Greatness, Men

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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