Great Work Quotes - Page 9

• Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s was mind altering.

  Anne Lamott

  Reading, Mind, Canon

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 6, 2010.

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• I don't think I'm craving any more fame. But success and being recognized for making great work all around the world, I think it's a great thing.

  John Legend

  Thinking, World, Fame

  "John Legend talks on music, wedding, Kanye, Syria, more". Interview with The Associated Press, www.denverpost.com. September 10, 2013.

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• Many great works of art have only form, the sculpture of the thing. Color as used to signify realization by men like Titian and Rembrandt, gives greater life and tactile experience to the work.

  John French Sloan

  Art, Men, Color

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• Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.

  George Eliot

  Believe, Leisure, Vacuums

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.834, ShandonPress

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• My childhood was epitomized by my parents who were uneducated but had a doctorate in love. My dad pressed coats and through my mom and dad I learned about love, family and respecting people. They never went to high school but they had within them every element that makes a great American. They had pride and a great work ethic and they knew how to do things the right way.

  Dick Vitale

  Mom, Dad, School

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• Money doesn’t know about clocks, schedules or holidays and you shouldn’t either.  Money loves people that have great work ethic.

  Grant Cardone

  Holiday, People, Work Ethic

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• The person who appreciates a great work of art has the feeling that the work grows in him as he becomes involved in a prolonged capturing of emerging marginal meanings. He feels that he, too, is creative, that he himself is adding to his experience and understanding. Moreover, he wants to confront the work of art many times. He is not easily tired of it, as he would be had he read a purely logical statement. He realizes that the work of art does not merely transmit information; it produces pleasure.

  Silvano Arieti

  Art, Tired, Appreciate

  Silvano Arieti (1976). “Creativity: The Magic Synthesis”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• The intimate conversations have its moments, because you have to sell the characters, because there is so much going on. It's so easy to get lost in the special effects and forget about the performances. The dialogue scenes have been great. It's been great working with Bryan and the writers to find where we're going and what's the story. Yeah, it's been really, really interesting.

  Eleanor Tomlinson

  Character, Intimate Conversation, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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• Saying, have a great work-out is like saying, I hope you pull something.

  Dov Davidoff

  Work Out

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Jun 19, 2011

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• Poe had this curious kind of alchemical courage, where he took all the terrible things and terrors that happened in his life, all this shame and fear and pain, and turned them into great works of art. He was a complex, brilliant person who was just wired too tight.

  John Cusack

  Art, Pain, Brilliant

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• This is a very proud moment for journalism. I think The New York Times and The Washington Post are genuine champions in this moment. The role that they are playing in democracy is the role that you hear about journalism playing in civics classes. Other people are doing great work, but the Times and the Post have really been leaders. The public is watching, and they are hungry. They know something is wrong, there's a lot of anxiety out there. There's a real sense that the mission of journalism is very clear.

  Ezra Klein

  Real, Thinking, People

  Source: wwd.com

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• You have to have a good script. You have to have compelling and complicated characters that you want to hang out with. Also, since you're going to be living with your crew and cast, I think it's really critical to create a great working environment, because we're spending so many days, so many hours together.

  Lesli Linka Glatter

  Character, Thinking, Together

  Source: variety.com

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• I think we need great artists making great work - women, men, whoever. I think what's great about TV now is there are so many different platforms that you can make really specific, specialized content. I wouldn't have gotten this part because I'm not really considered a "traditional romantic lead," so I created it for myself.

  Christina Ricci

  Artist, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• We have great work ahead of us, and it needs devotion and much, much energy. To grow, to discover, we need involvement, which is something I experience every day - sometimes good, sometimes frustrating. No matter what, you must let your inner light guide you out of the darkness.

  Bruce Lee

  Light, Darkness, Matter

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.233, Tuttle Publishing

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• Had I made capital on my prettiness, I should have closed the doors of public employment to women for many a year, by the very means which now makes them weak, underpaid competitors in the great workshop of the world.

  Jane Swisshelm

  Beauty, Work, Mean

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• Wherefore in all great works are Clerks so much desired? Wherefore are Auditors so well-fed? What causeth Geometricians so highly to be enhaunsed? Why are Astronomers so greatly advanced? Because that by number such things they find, which else would farre excell mans minde.

  Robert Recorde

  Numbers, Clerks, Auditors

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• The problem of culture is seldom grasped correctly. The goal of a culture is not the greatest possible happiness of a people, noris it the unhindered development of all their talents; instead, culture shows itself in the correct proportion of these developments. Its aim points beyond earthly happiness: the production of great works is the aim of culture.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Goal, Culture

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• Art is not an investment. Art is something you buy because you are financially solvent enough to give yourself a pleasure of living with great works rather than having to just see them in museums. People who are buying art at the top of the market as an investment are foolish.

  Arne Glimcher

  Art, Museums, People

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

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• When a man, a woman, see their little daily tasks as integral portions of the one great work, they are no longer drudges but co-workers with God.

  Annie Besant

  Work, Men, Daily Tasks

  Annie Besant (1912). “Theosophy”, London [etc.] T. C. & E. C. Jack; New York, Dodge publishing Company [1912]

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• You don't fully understand the meaning of a work until the audience responds to it. Because the audience completes the circle, and adds a whole other shade of meaning. Whenever you view something, and this is why great works of art survive decades and centuries, is because there's a door within the work that allows the audience to walk through and complete the meaning of the work. An audience isn't passive, nor are they unintelligent.

  Cate Blanchett

  Art, Passive, Audience

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos. We, however, live in the firm conviction our times will see not the decline but the renaissance of the West. It is our proud hope and our unshakable belief Germany can make an imperishable contribution to this great work.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Europe, Light

  Adolf Hitler (1944). “Hitler's Words”

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• We have great work ahead of us, and it needs devotion and much, much energy. To grow, to discover, we need involvement.

  Bruce Lee

  Energy, Needs, Devotion

  "The Warrior Within: The Philosophies of Bruce Lee". Book by John R. Little, p. 126, 1996.

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• I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)

  Auguste Rodin

  Photography, Art, Believe

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• I tremendously admire, and I think we all should, the great work done by our commander in chief, our president George Bush...

  Wesley Clark

  Thinking, President, Done

  "Judy Woodruff's Inside Politics", votesmart.org. October 20, 2003.

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• I would love to work with Guillermo del Toro and J.J. Abrams. I think they are creative geniuses that are constantly producing great work, and they're two people that I would just love to work with.

  Fiona Gubelmann

  Thinking, Two, People

  "Fiona Gubelmann Interview WILFRED". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 16, 2011.

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