Top 100 Great Work Quotes
#1. Great work is not created for everyone. If it were, it would be average work.
Seth Godin
#2. 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
#3. If all the people around you are happy with you, you are not doing great work.
Darren Hardy
#5. Mediocre work stutters, good work whispers, great work speaks, but extraordinary work shouts.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#6. I'm trying to reestablish my career and do great work and give my kids the life they deserve.
Tom Sizemore
#7. 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
#8. When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
Jonathan Edwards
#9. I'm not a popular actor. I don't necessarily want to be famous. I want to be known for great work. I want to be known to surprise audiences.
Idris Elba
#10. The Great Work now, as we move into a new millennium, is to carry out the transition from a period of human devastation of the Earth to a period when humans would be present to the planet in a mutually beneficial manner.
Thomas Berry
#11. Every great work of art, I would declare pompously, is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life.
Azar Nafisi
#13. The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.
Jay Chiat
#14. I contemplated man's little spark, what it should be valued before God alongside of this great work of heaven and earth.
Jakob Bohme
#15. Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.
Swami Vivekananda
#16. Whenever GOD determines to do a great work, HE first sets HIS people to pray.
Charles Spurgeon
#17. For our personal advancement in virtue and truth one quality is sufficient, namely, love; to advance humanity there must be two, love and intelligence; to accomplish the Great Work there must be three love, intelligence, and activity. And yet love is ever the root and the source.
Louis Claude De Saint-Martin
#18. When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
Madeleine L'Engle
#19. I'll save me money, thanks. Already diagnosed meself, anyway. I'm a cactus.'
'Cactus? Right. Great work, there, Doc. I'm glad you're not my bloody doctor.
Bill Condon
#20. Every time an actress is celebrated for her great work, I cheer. For the more brilliant their performance, the more the audience demands stories about women ... And as we all know: a great year for women in film, is just a great year for film.
Jessica Chastain
#21. In the space of seven years I have succeeded in accomplishing a great work and uniting the whole world in one Empire.
Genghis Khan
#22. The contradictory, consuming, contested relationship between detail and whole, event an eventuality, breathes fire and wisdom in every great work of art.
Russell Sherman
#23. I did some great work with my Calvin Klein ads on the motorcycle. It was really groundbreaking because people hadn't seen a woman actually riding a motorcycle before.
Carre Otis
#24. It is one thing being disciplined to plan and it is another thing being a disciple of great work. Be your own disciplinarian.
Israelmore Ayivor
#25. Turkey, Japan do great work because they can keep under control their little personal selfishness, egoism, jealousy, etc. when they get down to work.
Sri Aurobindo
#26. Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.
Fernando Flores
#27. Polo, racing and horse shows all are doing great work to help the farmer and rancher to raise better horses.
Will Rogers
#28. The biggest barrier we've seen to student progress is this: School policies and practices often prevent good teachers from doing great work and even dissuade some talented Americans from entering the profession. This needs to change.
Eli Broad
#29. God has unlimited resources for every great work. Are you a willing spirit?
Lailah Gifty Akita
#30. 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
#31. On what high-performing companies should be striving to create: A great place for great people to do great work.
Marilyn C. Nelson
#32. The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.
Jay Chiat
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. I know writers for whom the act of writing is a necessary chore. They suffer to write great work. I am very lucky that for me writing is a delight.
Denise Duhamel
#36. The church is not supposed to be a society of perfect people doing great work. It's a society of forgiven sinners repaying their unpayable debt of love by working for Jesus's kingdom in every way they can, knowing themselves to be unworthy of the task.
N. T. Wright
#37. A perverse nature can be stimulated by anything. Any book can be used as a pornographic instrument, even a great work of literature if the mind that so uses it is off-balance. I once found a small boy masturbating in the presence of the Victorian steel-engraving in a family Bible.
Anthony Burgess
#39. The work, the work, the work. This is what the business is all about. This is the fun, the glory, the pleasure. It's the only true measure of an agency. In the absence of great work, nothing else matters.
Phil Dusenberry
#40. The Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic was Israel Regardie's last book, the final token of his True Will. Through this book he bequeathed to us the means to carry on the Great Work of the Golden Dawn which, in a nutshell, is Initiation.
David Cherubim
#43. 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.
Karan Bajaj
#44. I believe that any great work of art is, in itself, a form of resistance against a sense of powerlessness.
Thom Yorke
#45. I always felt that Bette Davis was one of the great screen actresses who never really got her due - she won two Oscars, but the last was in 1938, and that was really before all the great work that she did.
Robert Osborne
#46. Schools should take part in the great work of construction and organization that will have to be done.
John Dewey
#47. The best thing for a bachelor is to get a wife who will really cooperate in the great work.
Samael Aun Weor
#48. It's much harder, much more work to be your own artist, and it's hard for me to just want to do one thing. I love doing my own music, but I really have to get into a groove with it, which has been difficult over the last few years because I've had so much great work coming in.
Gail Ann Dorsey
#49. Great Work begins when we take the time to ask if there's something new the world would love.
David Sturt
#50. Just looking at all the faces here reminds me of some of the great work that was done this year ... by cosmetic surgeons.
Ricky Gervais
#51. I look up to a strong woman; maybe that's why I fell for Gaga. She works incredibly hard and is very strong and inspirational like Mom, with a great work ethic.
Taylor Kinney
#52. Feeling creative produces great work in approximately the same way that "feeling like a doctor" makes you a gifted thoracic surgeon.
Merlin Mann
#53. When God contemplates some great work, He begins it by the hand of some poor, weak, human creature, to whom He afterwards gives aid.
Martin Luther
#54. You cannot create great work unless a little bit of you goes into it, be it your heart, your soul or your beliefs.
John Hegarty
#55. Families mean work,but they are our great work,and we are not afraid of work..
Julie B. Beck
#56. It is my greatest joy to live a really good part, even though it imposes great strain. An artist is tired but proud when he has created a great work of art. So it is with the actor who really lives a great role and is proud of the part he played.
Conrad Veidt
#57. I want to go wherever there's great work. I'm a huge fan of film primarily. But you can get a great TV show and get attached to it. Making a great film is forever, though, so I always want to be part of film. It's my first love.
Aml Ameen
#58. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do ... Don't settle
Steve Jobs
#59. For our teams that do great work, we have a tradition of giving Rolex watches. If you see all the key guys with their Rolexes, that's sort of our Medal of Honor if you do something big.
Ross Perot Jr.
#61. I'm kind of a Midwestern snob. I think we're just nice people and have a great work ethic.
Carol Bartz
#62. It's rare to find a consistently creative or insightful person who is also an angry person. They can't occupy the same space, and if your anger moves in, generosity and creativity often move out. It's difficult to use revenge or animus to fuel great work.
Seth Godin
#63. A Great Work of Art is one that truly moves and inspires you. You yourself must be moved. Don't look at art with others' eyes. Don't listen to music with others' ears. You must react to art with your own feelings, your own heart and mind.
Daisaku Ikeda
#64. It is because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to reverently worship the great work of Doing Nothing, that the world has lost its philosophy and even failed to invent a new religion.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#65. 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.
Norm MacDonald
#66. The instinct to produce great work doesn't require a fancy notebook.
Seth Godin
#67. I want my whole life to be a great work of art, not just my art. And that means paying attention to my entire life and trying to make sure my whole life is balanced.
Jewel
#68. I've always had a great work ethic, even when I was washing dishes.
Leon Bridges
#69. I'm not against digital photography. It's great for newspapers. And there are photographers doing great work digitally. When they use Photoshop as a darkroom tool, that's fine, too. But at this point of my life, after so many years, I don't really want to change, and I still love film.
Mary Ellen Mark
#70. Doing great work is a struggle. It's draining, it's demoralizing, it's frightening - not always, but it can feel that way when we're deep in the middle of it.
Ryan Holiday
#71. We've all got crazy ideas that tickle and nag. Let's turn up the volume on these great work muses. Allow them to germinate, mature and grow.
David Sturt
#72. We have great work ahead of us, and it needs devotion and much, much energy. To grow, to discover, we need involvement, which is something I experience every day - sometimes good, sometimes frustrating. No matter what, you must let your inner light guide you out of the darkness.
Bruce Lee
#73. All great work - artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual - is produced at those moments when its creators are lost completely in their actions, when they forget themselves altogether, and are free from self-consciousness.
Walpola Rahula
#74. I want to continue to do some great work. I'm nowhere close to where I want to be. I'm a diverse person who's trying to use his art to make the world better.
Michael Jai White
#76. The most successful people in all fields have a great work ethic.
Eric Mann
#77. 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.
Carl Sagan
#78. 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.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#79. The real trick to producing great work isn't to find ways to eliminate the edgy, nervous feeling that you might be swimming out of your depth. Instead, it's to remember that everyone else is feeling it, too. We're all in deep water. Which is fine: it's by far the most exciting place to be.
Oliver Burkeman
#80. Your greatest creation is yourself. Like any great work of art, creating a great self means putting in hard work, every day, for years.
Vi Hart
#81. But James Gandolfini and Edie Falco, they did such great work, especially in the last show.
Michael Imperioli
#82. The surrealists know that the surreal is in the real, just as the mage knows that the invisible is in the visible and the alchemist knows that the infinite is to be found in the finite - and the Great Work consists of its extraction.
Patrick Lepetit
#83. The reputation of a great work ethic that took years to build can be forgotten with one act of misjudgment.
Mark W. Boyer
#84. Political correctness sometimes does great work when it helps equalize the playing field when it comes to language, but it does a great disservice when it tries to silence a person of color.
Margaret Cho
#85. [Director] Peter Wallerstein does great work rescuing sea life along the shores of LA, and I helped raise money for sanctuaries such as Chimp Haven, who are now taking in over two hundred medical lab chimps released from government-funded medical testing labs.
Alison Eastwood
#86. Finally, I also come in recognition of the great work that has been undertaken by the NGOs and UN agencies that have been active for many years here, especially through the local staff and international staff here in Somaliland and in Somalia at large.
Jan Egeland
#87. It's far more difficult to disfigure a great work of art than to create one.
Marcel Proust
#88. Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
Florence Scovel Shinn
#89. The Idea of the University, Cardinal John Henry Newman's great work defining how the republic of the mind should be governed, hailed the importance of increasing the breadth of understanding, promoting excellence in scholarship, advancing student dialogue and freedom of expression and inquiry.
Andrew Roberts
#90. 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.
Austin Phelps
#91. A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
Nadia Boulanger
#92. I think once a year it's good to look back at the history of Oscar and to embrace the great work that everybody's done this year and set it in place to the great work that's gone on before us.
Howard Shore
#93. I tremendously admire, and I think we all should, the great work done by our commander-in-chief, our president, George Bush.
Wesley Clark
#94. Some of my best friends are Venture Capitalists, but let's face it, a hamster with Alzheimer's could make those kind of numbers. It's great work if you can get it.
Scott Adams
#95. Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
Lester Bangs
#96. When a man, a woman, see their little daily tasks as integral portions of the one great work, they are no longer drudges but co-workers with God.
Annie Besant
#97. It seems to be a characteristic of all great work that it creators wear a cloak of imprecision.
Fred Hoyle
#98. I guess maybe another gift I have is a great work ethic.
Vince McMahon
#99. The Great Work - the work of ensuring a just, healthy, beautiful, and sustainably life-giving world for future generations of all species.
Thomas Berry
#100. Like painting, most software is intended for a human audience. And so hackers, like painters, must have empathy to do really great work.
Paul Graham
