Great Work famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret.
-- Albert Camus -
I think all the knowledge and all the travels that I've done, I'm going to do a lot of great work in the future.
-- Chris Tucker -
A great work of art is one that continues to repay attention.
-- Christopher Ricks -
Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.
-- D.T. Suzuki -
I've written some great things. That's a gift, but there's consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.
-- Frank Ocean -
It seems to be a characteristic of all great work that it creators wear a cloak of imprecision.
-- Fred Hoyle -
The great works belong to no one nation, no one cultural tradition even. They are universal.
-- George Brandis -
To create great work, here's how you must spend your time: 1% Inspiration 9% Perspiration 90% Justification
-- George Lois -
The great workman of nature is time.
-- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon -
It was great working with Kevin Smith - just a dream.
-- Guillermo Diaz -
The proper response to a great work of art is to enter it as though there were nothing else in the world.
-- Huston Smith -
Any woman or man who would write the truth of their lives would write a great work. But no one has dared to write the truth of their lives.
-- Isadora Duncan -
If you do the bare minimum, expect bare minimum results. You want to be great, work to be great. Nothing just happens
-- J. J. Watt -
It is better to begin a great work than to finish a small one.
-- Janet Erskine Stuart -
Great works of the imagination are not produced quickly nor do they take quick effect on the popular mind.
-- John Dos Passos -
Families mean work,but they are our great work,and we are not afraid of work..
-- Julie B. Beck -
I would have to say that I’m haunted. I’m haunted by everything that drives me. I want to do great work. I need to do great work. I won’t be satisfied unless I do great work.
-- Lemon Andersen -
I think that China has many outstanding authors, and their great works should also be recognised by the world.
-- Mo Yan -
A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
-- Nadia Boulanger -
As you've probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.
-- Seth Godin -
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 -
All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.
-- Sidney Lumet -
I am driven by great work and seeing people do incredible things and having a part in that.
-- Tim Cook -
I guess maybe another gift I have is a great work ethic.
-- Vince McMahon -
All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.
-- Walter Benjamin -
If all the people around you are happy with you, you are not doing great work. Progress is disruption and change.
-- Darren Hardy -
Saying, have a great work-out is like saying, I hope you pull something.
-- Dov Davidoff -
I wrote Baghdad Central right after translating a great work by Ibrahim al-Koni, who is sort of a master of Arab fiction. In conversations with him I realized that translations have been my MFA program. If I have learned how to write fiction it's by working with great writers and getting them to explain their craft to me so that I can do it in English. That's how I've figured it out.
-- Elliott Colla -
After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
-- Isaac D'Israeli -
A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.
-- Isaac D'Israeli -
We're being very good team players here and very happy we've got a great working relationship with Reince Priebus and the RNC. They've been spectacular to us.
-- Kellyanne Conway -
A pro is someone who can do great work when he doesn't feel like it.
-- Alastair Cook -
We goofed around a lot and acted silly. It was great working with Mark Wahlberg too. Some off scenes I had with him I was terrified to do, but he was great.
-- Laura Vandervoort -
I would have to say that I’m haunted. I’m haunted by everything that drives me. I want to do great work. I need to do great work. I won’t be satisfied unless I do great work.
-- Lemon Andersen
