Top 100 Best Work Quotes
#1. God's best work occurs in the margins. If we have the courage to step into that wide-open space, God will meet us there.
Lisa Nichols Hickman
#2. Whenever I produce my best work, it's always because I've spent time being idle. Something always emerges after nothing.
Will Self
#3. I find that the creative side of my brain and the archival side of my brain don't work well together. When I've done my best work, I've been in a trance-like state.
George Meyer
#4. When creative people do their best work, they're hardly ever in charge, they're just sort of rolling along with their eyes shut yelling wheee.
Stephen King
#5. The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.
Arthur Miller
#6. Theatre is where my heart is. It's where I can do my best work. And even if I do films and TV, that's what I want to come back to.
Kelly Reilly
#7. The stage is my love, it's where I started and where I do my best work.
Jeremy Piven
#8. In sports, you play up to the level of your opponent, and I did some of my best work with Chevy, and I'm so grateful to have worked opposite him. He was a handful and a challenge, and he made me step up to the plate.
Cindy Morgan
#9. Modern man was not meant to do his best work before forty but is by nature, and is becoming more so, an afternoon and evening worker.
G. Stanley Hall
#10. It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.
Danny DeVito
#11. The real reward for doing your best work is not the money you make but the leader you become.
Robin Sharma
#12. I don't think about that. I wasn't a kid growing up saying one day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn't on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.
Adam Sandler
#14. It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.
C.S. Lewis
#15. The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another.
Gosta Mittag-Leffler
#16. When I wrote 'The Rozabal Line,' I had no preconceived notions of what a commercial bestseller should be. I have always viewed 'The Rozabal Line' as my first love and probably my best work. The fact, however, is that it is my least read work.
Ashwin Sanghi
#17. There are two very different types of artists: those I call Old Masters, who work by trial and error and tend to improve with age, and conceptual people, or Young Geniuses, who generally do their best work early in their careers.
David Galenson
#18. Just because a woman is over 50 does not mean she no longer has anything to offer. If anything, we have so much more to offer! We have lived life, we get better with age. I do my best work now in my 60s. Sure, I could retire; but what would I do? Play Bingo? I think not!
Dawn Wells
#19. You can't do things for money. You just can't act them. There's gotta be something about the script that you really want to do. I wouldn't do a job if I didn't think I could do the best work I possibly could.
Tom Wilkinson
#20. Glenn Close is a living icon. You look at the work, and I think it's wild, because she thinks some of her best work was in Dangerous Liaisons and that's what I believe as well.
Anthony Anderson
#21. Every single job is a challenge. You are walking into a new set, a new character, creating a world and trying to get comfortable to do your best work.
Felicia Day
#22. I have to be where the best work can be done.
Carlo Rubbia
#23. I find I often do my best work when I'm not attached to the outcome of the audition.
Lorraine Toussaint
#25. I want to be the best, and the best work. You have to earn what you get, and you have to work to keep it.
Alex Rodriguez
#27. The best work of artists in any age is the work of innocence liberated by technical knowledge. The laboratory experiments that led to the theory of pure color equipped the impressionists to paint nature as if it had only just been created.
Nancy Hale
#28. Our best work is done, our greatest influence is exerted, when we are without thought of self.
Swami Vivekananda
#29. How do you make people do the best work? You make them feel comfortable, so you can feel comfortable - and then you can have a really good ballgame!
Robert Knepper
#30. I think my best work is when I'm kind of in charge.
Chris Rock
#31. I believe myself to be an artist. That was my calling, to do my work, and what's most important to me is to do the best work I possibly can. And that is what means the most, that is what will endure.
Patti Smith
#32. STOP AT NOTHING TO GET THE BEST WORK THAT YOU CAN GET. BETRAY, VIOLATE, CAUSE ENORMOUS HARM.
Joe Frank
#33. Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the only expert.
Frank Gehry
#35. I feel responsible that everyone has a really wonderful experience and to do the best work possible, and to always know my lines and to always be on time and to bring a level to the show in terms of quality that other people will follow.
Julianna Margulies
#36. Upon accepting her Oscar for "Julia," 1978: "My dear colleagues, I thank you very very much for this tribute to my work. I think that Jane Fonda and I have done the best work of our lives, and I salute you and I pay tribute to you, and I think you should.
Vanessa Redgrave
#37. You've got to just follow your heart and do your best work. For better or worse, I have followed my heart. There is no doubt in my mind or heart that everything I've done is exactly what I intended to do.
Dan Fogelberg
#38. Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.
Seth Godin
#39. I don't know what makes someone hip. The goal is artist achievement and the best work we can do with no limitation.
Rick Rubin
#40. Dostoevski's The Double is his best work though an obvious and shameless imitation of Gogol's Nose.
Vladimir Nabokov
#41. Yes, Jobs could be overbearing. But as Guy Kawasaki (who worked for Steve Jobs twice) put it: If you ask an employee of Apple why they put up with the challenges of working there, they will tell you: because Apple enables you to do the best work of your career.
Anonymous
#42. The best work we can all do is create the highest vision possible for our lives and be led by that vision to the greatest good.
Oprah Winfrey
#43. I'm a huge Muppets fan. Gigantic. I think they're genius. I think they're some of the best work out there and completely underrated, just because of how genius they are. I love that kind of humor. It's so innocent but brilliant.
Andie MacDowell
#44. When I do my best work, the stories tend to be pretty emotionally-charged.
Jeff Lemire
#45. Oftentimes people expect Christians to be perfect but the reality is ... Spiritual perfection is imperfection! God then does His best work.
Sanjo Jendayi
#46. Giving every child a chance to reach their full potential is the best work anyone can do
Hillary Clinton
#47. The Number One Rule of Working Is: DO THE BEST WORK YOU CAN. Why do anything but your best? What's the point?
Carew Papritz
#48. I feel like my best work is in front of me. I'm in the studio now, and I'm having an amazing time making this new album. It's something I can't help.
Lenny Kravitz
#49. Management isn't about walking around and seeing if people are in their offices, he told me. It's about creating conditions for people to do their best work.
Daniel H. Pink
#50. If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work in the world has been done against seeming impossibilities.
Dale Carnegie
#51. I want a desirable place to work to attract and keep them here. So you try to create an environment for people to do their best work, and be generous on the benefit side.
Joe Mansueto
#52. I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great men - with Olivier Assayas, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette. I am tutored by them.
Emmanuelle Beart
#54. Do the best work you can do and try not to worry about the fact that you are a woman covering the NFL and you have never played the sport before. Just focus on the story and study, prepare and deliver the best report possible.
Megan Alexander
#55. The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
Salman Rushdie
#56. God often does His best work in us when He catches us by surprise and introduces a change that is completely against our own desire.
Charles R. Swindoll
#57. Emptying yourself of your best work isn't just about checking off tasks on your to-do list; it's about making steady, critical progress each day on the projects that matter, in all areas of life.
Todd Henry
#58. The mind of an artist never sleeps, because dreaming is when they do their best work.
Mark W. Boyer
#59. I felt like people really do their best work when they're having a really good time and feel safe to push the envelope and make a jackass out of themselves.
Clark Gregg
#60. I always feel when you work with an artist and whenever I work with a really good photographer, I try to give him or her their own artistic freedom because that's the way you get the best work or at least the most interesting work.
Helen Mirren
#61. We don't like waiting, but that's when God does some of His best work on our souls.
Charles R. Swindoll
#62. It would be sad if my best work had been 20 years ago and now I only had memories.
Demian Bichir
#63. I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work before you're forty-five. Having passed that significant date, I thought I would do something else.
John Polkinghorne
#64. As an artist in the 21st century, my two goals are to make the best work that I can, improve as much as I can, and to distribute that work as far as I can.
Brandon Stanton
#65. I don't see money or a particular status as an actor as a goal, but I want to do the best work I can in as interesting a range of roles as I can.
Dan Stevens
#66. A huge part of acting in movies is appetite. You do your best work when you've got a lot of appetite and you really want to embrace something. When you get tired, you don't have that hunger.
Clive Owen
#67. You and I are stymied in our own creativity. We can only create as sub-creators, and even then our best work is only sub-creation.
Matt Chandler
#68. It was always the most striking scene, the best work, the most disturbing emotion and unsettling idea that attracts criticism.
Rafael Yglesias
#69. This is not a book for the wild-haired crazies your company keeps in a corner. It is a book for you, your boss, and your employees, because the best future available to us is a future where you contriubute your true self and your best work. Are you up for that?
Seth Godin
#70. Sometimes it just doesn't translate to people. You just move on, and you feel bad because people worked so hard on it and everyone loved it ... Everybody was treated so well and was going for something and trying to do the best work possible.
Catherine Keener
#71. Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had bad timing.
Scott Adams
#72. Because creative people aren't always in charge. And when they do their best work, they're hardly ever in charge. They're just sort of rolling along with their eyes shut, yelling Wheeeee.
Stephen King
#73. It is just as honorable ... to dig in the dirt as to dig into books. The mind can do its best work only when th body has been developed equally well.
William Warren Prescott
#74. To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.
David Bowie
#75. I'm not striving for happiness, I'm trying to get some work done. And sometimes the best work is done under doubt. Constantly rethinking and re-evaluating what you're doing, working and working until it's finished.
John Zorn
#76. The pieces I've written for 'Outside' magazine are definitely my best work, and they're virtually all about the outdoors.
Jon Krakauer
#77. You are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe the masses.
Seth Godin
#78. When it comes to me, I just write the most beautiful music I can, I do the best work I can, and then I hand it out there.
Barry Manilow
#79. Create your own community of liberation. From this moment on, direct your most concerted efforts, your best work, and your greatest feats of imagination toward creating the impossible community, and do so first of all precisely where you are, with those around you.
John P. Clark
#80. All of the artists that I've worked with have an incredible work ethic. And Madonna has the best work ethic of them all. I've learned a lot from being around her.
Paul Oakenfold
#81. I've worked in network and cable on and off for a number of years, and you just understand what your parameters are. A lot of times, I think the best work that my team has come up with comes from having to deal with certain boundaries.
Shawn Ryan
#82. I apologize if there's a Parkinson's painter in the audience. I assume you do your best work in the morning. Probably gets abstract by noon.
Daniel Tosh
#84. Don't go to the grave with your best work still inside of you. Die empty.
Todd Henry
#85. A chance to collaborate with one of my favorite bands in a completely open and supportive creative environment ... some our best work.
Dave Genn
#86. When we take our focus off of our external selves, and others, God does His best work internally! JW
Evinda Lepins
#87. I think the best work flows out of a collaborative environment.
Steven Bochco
#88. My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
Sam Abell
#90. Many of the greatest composers and musicians do their best work in extreme confinement but we are seeing it in other fields - uses of technology to link people together in networks to solve problems and almost certainly we'll get better ideas than we would from them just doing it on their own.
Geoff Mulgan
#91. I don't think the roles that I'm necessarily known for in this country are my best work, or even anywhere near it. I didn't think I was great in 'Arcadia.' I think it's a great part and a great play and had a lot of attention.
Rufus Sewell
#92. The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned, The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet, The mightiest rivers aren't spanned; Don't worry and fret, faint-hearted, The chances have just begun For the best jobs haven't been started, The best work hasn't been done.
Berton Braley
#93. Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
#94. There's a reason why actors are always dying to work with the Coens. They just set the stage for you to do their best work.
Oscar Isaac
#95. It's tough when you started out as young as I did to look back and see how far I've come. I try to be easy on myself and go 'Look man, you were younger, you were learning; you learn, you grow.' But I'm not my best judge. I always feel like my best work is still ahead of me.
Matt Dillon
#96. I do know that people tend to do their best work when they're challenged and stimulated by their peers.
Thomas Jane
#97. So many actors get caught up in their technique, and to be honest, I see it really getting in the way. I see them forcing things. I definitely do my best work when I'm free of that. But I think as an actor, I work really hard in preparing the roles.
Gerard Butler
#98. I think there are shows that are long-running and successful, where some or all of the cast members hate each other, but I think it's a lot easier to have an environment where everyone feels secure and supported to do the best work possible.
Jesse Metcalfe
#100. He who designs an unsafe structure or an inoperative machine is a bad Engineer; he who designs them so that they are safe and operative, but needlessly expensive, is a poor Engineer, and ... he who does the best work at lowest cost sooner or later stands at the top of his profession.
Henry R. Towne
