Great Work Quotes

All great artists and thinkers are great workers.

Great work comes from great joy. Leave the angst for the movies; do art - that is fun.

I had a great time on News Radio, I got to make tons of money in relative obscurity and learn a lot about the TV biz and work on my standup act constantly. It was a dream gig.

We must remind Americans that the promise of opportunity remains unbroken - that every person in this great nation can succeed through hard work, courage and personal responsibility.

Somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work. Help me in saying it, to understand it.

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.

If all the people around you are happy with you, you are not doing great work. Progress is disruption and change.

It is the great work of nature to transmute sunlight into life. So it is the great end of Christian living to transmute the light of truth into the fruits of holy living.

I guess maybe another gift I have is a great work ethic.

There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.

Polo, racing and horse shows all are doing great work to help the farmer and rancher to raise better horses.

Futurism today is led by science-fiction writers, by sociologists, by historians. Now, I have nothing against them. I'm sure they do great work. But they're not scientists. They're clueless.

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.

I'm one of those people who does a lot of things. I'm lucky. I get up and I have a lot of energy. I have a great work ethic.

No man ever did or can do a great work alone.

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.

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.

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

Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and this is its whole secret.

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.

The proper response to a great work of art is to enter it as though there were nothing else in the world.

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

A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.

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

If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost.

On what high-performing companies should be striving to create: A great place for great people to do great work.

Those fortunate enough to find or create a practical intersection of the three circles have the basis for a great work life.

I think in some parts of our English history we've had huge amounts of almost too much great comedy. You kind of wonder how so much great work could come out of one country.

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

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.

As a species, we are most animated when our days and nights on Earth are touched by the natural world. We can find immeasurable joy in the birth of a child, a great work of art, or falling in love.

Just looking at all the faces here reminds me of some of the great work that was done this year . . . by cosmetic surgeons.

The more you worry about being applauded by others and making money, the less you'll focus on doing the great work that will generate applause. And make you money.

The contradictory, consuming, contested relationship between detail and whole, event an eventuality, breathes fire and wisdom in every great work of art.

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

In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Mozart symphony, or any other great work of art.

Don't worry about the chatter, do a good job, produce great work and do reporting that you're proud of.

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.

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

Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of art or great interpretation of music or a great story that you tell.

Great readers, great listeners, and all have great work ethics. ... They work hard at what they do and they're devout to their reading and listening.

The moment when one first meets a great work of art has an impact that can never again be recaptured.

It seems to be a characteristic of all great work that it creators wear a cloak of imprecision.

It's not about my career now. It's just about finding great work and having a good time.

Only when the heart loves can the intellect do great work.

It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.

I get very homesick, but otherwise it's a great privilege to get to travel for work.

NFL cheerleading is harder than most people think. They train up to six hours every day with games on Sundays. They gave me a great work ethic.

The first great work (a task performed by few) Is that yourself may to yourself be true.