Top 100 Do Good Work Quotes
#1. The three things I said when I came out of school were I want to work consistently, I want to do good work and I want to be paid fairly, and that's happened. But I didn't become an actress for the money. I do it for other reasons.
Angela Bassett
#2. Let my hands be of service to people. Let me earn wisdom through my hands. Let my hands do good work
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#3. Wealth, status, pride, are their own ruin. To do good, work well, and lie low is the way of the blessing.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#4. I try to keep in mind that it's a long journey. It's not a race. It's about staying focused, continuing to do good work, make my family and community proud; that's all I really want to do ... and pay my bills.
Gina Rodriguez
#5. I'm a believer in the notion that artists who do good work believe in the ideas of extremes.
Wayne Thiebaud
#6. Do good work. Don't worry about expressing yourself. Figure out what you do well and make it better.
Thomas S. Buechner
#7. My only want and wish, really, was to tell a good story. I wanted to do good work, tell a good story, and give the character a voice. Those were my only expectations.
Uzo Aduba
#8. I'm not like Henry Fonda. He lives to act. I've just had a dedication to do the best I could. When I don't have challenges, the days get long. But I do enjoy being on stage. If I do good work, I get a kick out of that.
Don Ameche
#9. It's a lot easier to do good work when you have good words to say and work with good people.
Mark Harmon
#10. To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace
Vincent Van Gogh
#11. I think I have a good rapport with the people I work with and that really helps. If you like working with people and you always have a good time and you always do good work, then they're going to book you again. I like doing what I do.
Kate Moss
#12. You learn how to do good work by being honest with yourself.
Rodney Crowell
#13. As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the '70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility.
Patti Smith
#14. On many days my primary artistic struggle is, in fact, photography because it is harder to do good work with that. I see myself as an observer of the world who has a strong drive to testify, which I can do because I have the privilege of living in New York with enough food to eat and shelter.
Teju Cole
#15. If you do good work, it tends to stick around. People still come up to me and say, 'The Ref' is my favorite Christmas movie.'
Denis Leary
#16. Seems to me that this business, for actors anyway, is not so much about whether or not you do good work. It's about whether or not you get the chance to do good work.
Hugh Laurie
#17. It was more important to do good work than to get honor for it. I learned that.
Katie Kennedy
#18. I do what I believe in. I do good work, and the people who appreciate it, fine, and those who don't, fine, that's good.
Dan Fogelberg
#19. I want longevity. I don't want to be a flash in the pan. I want to continue to do good work and projects that inspire me, and if I can have fun while doing it, that's the dream.
Skylar Astin
#20. I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work.
Don Nickles
#21. I've never been in this business for the recognition or the awards. I just want to do good work, grab a decent paycheck, and move onto the next job.
William Petersen
#22. I really want to do good work. I really do. My priority isn't stardom.
Michelle Monaghan
#23. The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
Elbert Hubbard
#24. The important thing is to do good work, no matter what medium you do it in.
Roy Scheider
#25. So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?
Jackie Cooper
#26. I want to do good work, but having kids and a life outside of that is important, too. If you don't have anybody around who loves you, then what's it all for? You're just lonely in the end.
Josh Duhamel
#27. If you do good work, you start to make a name for yourself and things can come around. Weird little happenstances happen.
David Walton
#28. When you do good work, people will notice you.
Ram Kapoor
#29. I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.
Karen Black
#30. People don't do good work when they feel like losers and are second-class citizens within their own company.
Jonah Peretti
#31. I just really want to do good work and work with some great people, people who challenge me.
Salli Richardson
#32. Because knowledge is not for showing off. If I do good work, people should notice me.
Chetan Bhagat
#34. I stay subjective because that's what I do. That's one of my abilities. I don't need to watch it because I've had the adventure. I don't do low-budget acting. I do the same acting, whether I'm in a Jim Cameron or not. I always try to do good work. There's no snobbery in there
Lance Henriksen
#35. As an actor, all you want to do is to work and do good work.
Michelle Fairley
#36. At this stage in the advancement of women the best policy for them is not to talk much about the abstract principles of women'srights but to do good work in any job they get, better work if possible than their male colleagues.
Virginia Gildersleeve
#37. If you do good work for good clients, it will lead to other good work for other good clients. If you do bad work for bad clients, it will lead to other bad work for other bad clients.
Michael Bierut
#38. To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
Henry Ward Beecher
#39. Sometimes it's hard to say no. Ultimately, if you stick to your guns, you have the career that you want. Don't get me wrong. I love a good payday and I'll do films for fun. But ultimately my main goal is to do good work. If it doesn't pay well, so be it.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
#40. My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I'm way, way too old now, mate. That boat's sailed.
Ian Hart
#41. Do good work and let that speak for itself. Don't waste time arguing with someone. Instead, show them in your work. That's easier said than done, but it really is the best solution. No one can argue with good work.
Megan Alexander
#42. It's not my style to either wear minimum clothes, to strip, or to even be comfortable with a sex-symbol label. I just want to do good work instead of sporting such meaningless tags. Sex sells, but to a small extent, not always. And this is what filmmakers have to accept.
Katrina Kaif
#43. People who do good work often think that whatever they're working on is no good. Others see what they've done and think it's wonderful, but the creator sees nothing but flaws. This pattern is no coincidence: worry made the work good.
Paul Graham
#44. Anyway, that's why you do it. Not to be famous, just to be good. To do good work. Find the thing you really love doing, and do it to the best of your ability.
David Nicholls
#45. Good and productive labor is valuable, and it doesn't mean you have to have a fancy job description. You don't have to become rich. You can be ordinary. Happiness lies there. Do good work, create good work for others.
Jay Parini
#46. Every film for every actor is a make-or-break film. I believe every film has the power to break you or make you. So, an actor will treat every film like his last film. That's the way we need to work, and that's the way you can drum up that passion needed to do good work.
Abhishek Bachchan
#47. You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.
Sally Hawkins
#48. It is certainly good to have fans but I am always focusing on the next thing and continuing to do good work. Onward and upward.
John Magaro
#49. You can't do good work on a short-term contract. You need to be engaged over a period of time.
Yves Behar
#50. I think having healthy relationships makes me feel much more confident and available to do good work as an actor.
Rose McIver
#51. I'm not really devoted or specified towards any specific genre at all. I really like it all. There's good storytelling in all the genres, you know. I just want to tell good stories and do good work.
Angela Bettis
#52. There seems to be a notion in Hollywood that if you want to make money, you have to sacrifice doing good work with integrity. And I think that's bullshit. I think that's an excuse, and it's what people say who are scared that they can't do good work.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#53. As much I love to imagine being alone in an orderly lab, I also know you can't stay in there forever and expect to do good work. Life is one of those experiments meant to be conducted in a stimulating, messy environment.
Sara Zarr
#54. If a craftsman wants to do good work, he must first sharpen his tools.
Confucius
#56. Having a good director is very important. It's crucial. When you do good work with a certain director, you want to work with them again, and hopefully vice versa.
Giles Matthey
#57. For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions.
Margaret J. Wheatley
#58. I just want to do good work. That's all I want to do. I don't have big aspirations like being the President of the United States, I just want to do good work. That's all.
Frank Oz
#59. You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.
Yanni
#60. It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes.
David Cassidy
#61. I want to do good work. I want the opportunity to work with good people, and the only way I'm gonna do that is to commit 110% - you get out what you put in.
Christian Bale
#62. Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you're trying to be famous, your work usually suffers.
Justin Theroux
#63. I don't want to be the actor who's followed by paparazzi, you know? I would like to just do good work and have that work be respected and acknowledged.
Randall Park
#64. You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
#65. Every actor has to find space where they are free, in order to do good work.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
#66. You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#67. There is always a bit of pressure to do a good album - to do good work, period. I really put a lot of pressure on myself, more so than other people. But I try not to let that overwhelm me to the point where I can't even do good work. I just put it aside and do the best that I know that I can.
Aaliyah
#68. From the earliest days, we knew that it was not possible to do good work with the little children without the help of their parents.
Caroline Pratt
#69. What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.
Natasha Richardson
#70. There is no use trying to do Church work without love. A doctor, a lawyer, may do good work without love, but God's work cannot be done without love.
D.L. Moody
#71. I was intent on doing something productive and on being everything my parents taught me to be. Their values were clear: do good work; don't ever get too big for your breeches; always be an authentic person; don't worry too much about being famous and rich because that doesn't amount to too much.
Ruth Simmons
#72. I've never had a problem with a dumb client. There is no such thing as a bad client. Part of our job is to do good work and get the client to accept it.
Bob Gill
#73. Careers are not all up, up, up; do good work, continue to grow as an artist, and opportunity finds you. I have no sour grapes.
John Allison
#74. If you're going to do good work, the work has to scare you.
Anonymous
#75. To do six to 10 episodes of high-quality writing, and then be able to go direct my own things, and do a movie, if it comes along, sure. I just want to act and do good work.
Jason Momoa
#76. The most important knowledge teachers need to do good work is a knowledge of how students are experiencing learning and perceiving their teacher's actions.
Stephen Brookfield
#77. My best film is always my next film. I couldn't make Chungking Express now, because of the way I live and drink I've forgotten how I did it. I don't believe in film school or film theory. Just try and get in there and make the bloody film, do good work and be with people you love.
Christopher Doyle
#78. You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety of things.
Jon Stewart
#79. If we were really unattached, we should escape all this pain of vain expectation, and could cheerfully do good work in the world. Never will unhappiness or misery come through work done without attachment. The world will go on with its happiness and misery through eternity.
Swami Vivekananda
#80. I think that they had afforded me many opportunities to do good work there, and I think I did. It was a wonderful four years. I really worked with some great people, terrific producers, terrific editors.
Connie Chung
#81. Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.
Henry Latham Doherty
#82. I just feel like if I do good work, then people should respect me for the work I do.
Scott Caan
#84. You can do good work simply staying up all night and eating nothing but junk food, but probably not in the long term.
John Mulaney
#85. But I want to do good work, after this series.
Jackie Cooper
#86. The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.
Logan Pearsall Smith
#87. She would not be robbed of her ability to support herself, to do good work in the world, justly, compassionately.
Marge Piercy
#88. You have to care. You can't do good work if you don't care. That's not necessarily a strength, but it gives you strength.
William Albert Allard
#90. I've just always loved really good projects. The things that draw me into a new project have very little to do with genre and have more to do with the characters I'll be playing, the people I'll get to work with and things like that.
Jewel Staite
#91. I didn't do anything for two years but work on 'Gone Baby Gone,' and it was miserable and hard, but at the end? It is a good movie. I liked it very much. If it had been dismissed and deemed worthless, it would been definitely devastating. But that didn't happen.
Ben Affleck
#92. All the collaborators of storytelling, in film and television, have to be partly self-centered because they need to do their work the best they can, and that's what makes them really good at what they do, but then they also have to be a part of the socialist society, for the greater good.
Ray McKinnon
#93. Do a good job. You don't have to worry about the money; it will take care of itself. Just do your best work then try to trump it.
Walt Disney
#94. Religion is the fear of God, and its demonstration good works; and faith is the root of both: For without faith we cannot please God; nor can we fear what we do not believe.
William Penn
#95. I don't care what I do - act, stand-up, write, direct - it doesn't matter as long as I'm being creative and it's good work.
Jeff Garlin
#96. Google has been amazing at acqui-hiring, buying small companies for the engineers. I think in the competitive market of Silicon Valley, it's really a good way to do it. Big acquisitions often don't work out.
Ross Levinsohn
#97. I will promise you that if I can give you two good scenes
which is what I always try to do in every movie
then I feel like I'm doing my job.
Nicolas Cage
#98. I think I've had the opportunity to work for people because I wanted to and because I thought they were good people, and therefore everything I do, I can do with sincerity.
Pat Meehan
#99. I try not to think about that [getting Oscar] ahead of time. You just try to do the best work you can, and then you get the movie out there, and we've been hearing good things. But you never know, you don't want to get too high, and you don't want to get too low.
Denzel Washington
#100. It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most other people don't. So they offer you something - The Avengers is a good example ... I fitted into that because I came from that sort of background. It's not even acting.
Patrick Macnee
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