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  • Feeling creative produces great work in approximately the same way that "feeling like a doctor" makes you a gifted thoracic surgeon.

  • I don't have any ego about it, but I find there's not a great work ethic in show business. A lot of people are in it to make money, and coming from stand-up, you have to work so hard because almost nothing works, and if you lose the audience for three minutes, you're dead.

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

    Art   Impact   Firsts  
    Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke: The Sentinel”, p.122, RosettaBooks
  • I hate to see great works of literature ghettoized, whereas others that conform to the rules, conventions, and procedures of the genre we call literary fiction get accorded greater esteem and privilege. I also have a problem with how books are marketed, with certain cover designs and typefaces. They're often stamped with an identity that has nothing to do with their effect on the reader.

    Hate   Book   Design  
    Interview with Elizabeth Benefiel, www.avclub.com. July 5, 2007.
  • I suppose I get a lot of questions about Tiger. But Tiger Woods is a tremendous talent. He plays well. He has a great work ethic. He's probably as talented of a golfer as anyone who's ever played.

    Play   Work Ethic   Woods  
    Source: www.nicklaus.com
  • 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.

    Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 24, 2010.
  • What an encouragement to realize that God has reserved you and me for a special task in His great work. In His hands we're not only useful, but priceless.

  • God waits patiently for me to wake up, grow up, come to the awareness that great works take time, that nothing truly worthwhile can be rushed... How difficult it is not to interfere, to try to take over, to go it alone. But God cannot succeed without me. God needs my whole-hearted cooperation in this work.

  • During my visit to the Philippines, I wanted in a particular way to meet with young people, to listen to you and to talk to you. I want to express the love and the hopes of the Church for you. And I want to encourage you as Christian citizens of this country to offer yourselves passionately and honestly to the great work of renewing your society and helping to build a better world.

  • Committing great work does not necessarily feed you.

    Doe   Great Work  
    Source: www.chicagotribune.com
  • I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

    Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.91, University of Toronto Press
  • While the nation that has dared to be great, that has had the will and the power to change the destiny of the ages, in the end must die, yet no less surely the nation that has played the part of the weakling must also die; and whereas the nation that has done nothing leaves nothing behind it, the nation that has done a great work really continues, though in changed form, to live forevermore.

    Destiny   Age   Done  
    Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.81, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • 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.

    Artist   Greatness   Keys  
  • I was trying to foster a great working relationship between those two departments [design and the writing teams], because classically in animation the two don't get along.

    Team   Writing   Two  
    Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com
  • Through our own creative experience we came to know that the real tradition in art is not housed only in museums and art galleries and in great works of art; it is innate in us and can be galvanized into activity by the power of creative endeavour in our own day, and in our own country, by our own creative individuals in the arts.

    Country   Art   Real  
    "The best of the Group of Seven".
  • 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.

    Live Life   Men   Ideas  
    United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1991). “Ronald Reagan”
  • Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

  • Painting is almost like a religious experience, which should go on and on. Age just gives you the freedom to do some things you've never done before. Great work can come at any stage of your life.

    Religious   Giving   Age  
  • In summary, all great work is the fruit of patience and perseverance, combined with tenacious concentration on a subject over a period of months or years.

    Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Neely Swanson, Larry W. Swanson (2004). “Advice for a Young Investigator”, p.64, MIT Press
  • If I was a complete slacker who was just doing nothing but traveling, I don't know if I would have the discipline to be productive and create this job, and on the other hand, if I was always disciplined and productive, I don't think I would have that mystical connection that lead to great work.

    Jobs   Thinking   Hands  
    Source: www.edgemagazine.net
  • 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.

    "Anderson Cooper Interview With Kellyanne Conway Says Hillary Clinton Has Been Fighting For Herself For 30 Years". Interview With Anderson Cooper, lybio.net.
  • I want kids to enjoy skating and I think it's a great workout.

    Sports   Workout   Kids  
    Q&As, www.goldenskate.com. March 7, 2003.
  • It has been said that no great work in literature or in science was ever wrought by a man who did not love solitude. We may lay it down as an elemental principle of religion, that no large growth in holiness was ever gained by one who did not take time to be often long alone with God.

    Prayer   Men   Long  
    AUSTIN PHELPS (1860). “THE STILL HOUR”, p.93
  • If I were a medical doctor, I would probably be a dermatologist, because they have great work-life balance. Not because I'm passionate about people's skin. They have great hours. I have friends who are dermatologists, and they tell me it's great.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • If all the people around you are happy with you, you are not doing great work. Progress is disruption and change.

    Darren Hardy (2015). “The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster: Why Now Is the Time to #Join the Ride”, p.57, Greenleaf Book Group
  • I've put live performance in a lot of spaces. Part of what I want to do is take over the takeover. Another way that someone put it is, you climb over the fence and you cut a hole in it, and let everyone else in. That's kind of what this is. The museum is a repository of great works, but there is certain work that no one ever calls great. This is an insistence on directing their attention to other stuff that's great, that never gets to be in a museum.

    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • I am driven by great work and seeing people do incredible things and having a part in that.

  • I think that China has many outstanding authors, and their great works should also be recognised by the world.

  • Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.

  • Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process.

    Mind   Might   Steps  
    Joseph Priestley, John Towill Rutt (1831). “The Theological and Miscellaneous Works. Ed. with Notes by John Towill Rutt”, p.346
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