Rework Quotes

• I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.

  Frank Auerbach

  Order, Recalls, Finished

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• A lot of Woody Guthrie's songs were taken from other songs. He would rework the melody and lyrics, and all of a sudden it was a Woody Guthrie song.

  John Mellencamp

  Song, Taken, Woody

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• If given a choice between investing in someone who has read REWORK or has an MBA, I’m investing in REWORK every time. A must read for every entrepreneur.

  Mark Cuban

  Mba, Choices, Entrepreneur

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• What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.

  Jason Fried

  Inspirational, Work, Thinking

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• Unless you are a fortune-teller, long-term business planning is a fantasy.

  Jason Fried

  Long, Planning, Fantasy

  David Heinemeier Hansson, Jason Fried (2010). “ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever”, p.19, Random House

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• The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art.

  Ernest Becker

  Art, Personality, World

  Ernest Becker (1997). “The Denial of Death”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

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• It takes more time to rework a painting than it takes to fill in the canvas in the first place. I wish I could get them all right with the first coat like many of the old masters could, but seem destined to have to rework to make them even passable.

  E. J. Hughes

  Wish, Coats, Firsts

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• It's certainly what I like best about getting older. You're not up for grabs for criticism anymore. You make a decision, it's made, it's fine, you don't have to go back and rework it. You don't have to apologize.

  Anjelica Huston

  Decision, Criticism, Getting Older

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For me, the good songs are the ones that come really naturally. There are certain songs that you rework and rewrite and the craft becomes very evident, but a lot of times those aren't my favorite songs. The favorite songs are the ones that I can't even hear my own voice in.

  Jon Foreman

  Song, Voice, Crafts

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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• This is writing. You cut out chunks of your own memories, rework them, bleed into them, breathe into the raw clay, and hope the creature lives.

  Holly Lisle

  Memories, Writing, Cutting

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• I am never in a hurry to reach details. First and above all I am interested in the large masses and the general character of a picture; when these are well established, then I try for subtleties of form and color. I rework the painting constantly and freely, and without any systematic method.

  Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

  Art, Character, Color

  From Corot's 'Notebooks', 1850. "Artists on Art, from the 14 to 20 Centuries". Book by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves, pp. 240-241, 1972.

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• In working on a drawing or a painting, one can rework and rework and rework and change ideas until you get it the way you think is right at that time. With clay that's not possible. You either succeed the first time, or you should wad it up and start over again, because you can't mess around with the clay and still have it fresh.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Thinking, Ideas, Drawing

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Nothing comes naturally to me...I have to work and rework and that's where
  the ideas come from - from years of working on it and thinking about it.

  Markus Zusak

  Thinking, Years, Ideas

  Source: estellabooks.blogspot.com

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• Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?

  Anna Funder

  Past, Grit, Pearls

  Anna Funder (2011). “Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall”, p.162, Granta Books

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• In our efforts to get human beings empirically into focus in ethics, we have a standing obligation not only to revisit and, if necessary, rework our conception of human importance, but also to ensure that our best conception is indeed the lens through which we look at our fellow human beings.

  Alice Crary

  Effort, Focus, Lenses

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• Usually, I make a simple beat, throw in the acapella, and then I just improvise on the piano. Whatever comes up, I record the result, and I rework on it. Sometimes it takes a while to come with an idea, but mostly it comes naturally because I already have a connection with the song.

  Shook

  Song, Simple, Ideas

  Source: www.atickettosomewhere.com

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• The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.

  Fred Brooks

  Media, Creating, Air

  "The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering". Book by Fred Brooks, 1975.

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• It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels.

  Ted Turner

  Moving, Energy, Dollars

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• At any rate, if evolution turns out to be true, then the Christian should embrace it as one dedicated to following the truth wherever it leads. This might mean reworking his interpretation of Genesis on the subject-much like Christians have had to rework their interpretation of biblical passages referring to the sun rising and setting, the earth not moving, or the earth resting on foundations.

  Paul Copan

  Christian, Moving, Mean

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• After finishing the first draft, I work for as long as it takes (for two or three weeks, most often) to rework that first draft on a computer. Usually that involves expansion: filling in and adding to, but trying not to lose the spontaneous, direct sound. I use that first draft as a touchstone to make sure everything else in that section has the same sound, the same tone and impression of spontaneity.

  Kent Haruf

  Writing, Two, Long

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• I never feel I repeat myself. I really go out of my way to amuse myself. I would be bored stiff. If I feel the déjavu when I'm doing something, I stop and rethink and rework it.

  Malcolm McDowell

  Bored, Would Be, Way

  Source: www.gq.com

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• It is not without trepidation that I have appropriated the codes of the Sublime and the Picturesque in my work. After all, serious photographers have spent most of this century trying to expunge such extravagances from their art. The tradition lives on, mostly in calendars and picture postcards. I was challenged to rework and revitalize that which had been so roundly denigrated.

  John Pfahl

  Art, Sublime, Trying

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• The only thing I really wanted was the freedom to be able to get what I want on film. I’ve dealt with the MPAA since 1973, so I know how to renegotiate and rework.

  Martin Scorsese

  Want, Able, Film

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• When you write - explode - fly apart - disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Cutting, Thinking

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• Amazing, powerful, inspirational - those adjectives might make me sound like a fawning fan, but REWORK is that useful. Be prepared for a new feeling of clarity and motivation.

  Kathy Sierra

  Motivation, Powerful, Feelings

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