Top 100 The Best Work Quotes
#1. My advice to women directors is just to make the best work possible.
Jamie Babbit
#2. 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
#3. The best work comes from people who are motivated by crisis. When something stops their original idea, they respond by coming up with something even better.
Pharrell Williams
#4. The basic thing is that I want to do the best work possible, and I can only do that if I'm relaxed and have a lot of energy. And that can only come from taking time off.
Jason Scott Lee
#5. The Capitol is the best work I have ever done, or shall ever do, and I am glad to have Given it to St. Paul.
Cass Gilbert
#6. It turns out that the people who like their jobs the most are also the ones who are doing the best work, making the greatest impact, and changing the most.
Seth Godin
#7. I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people.
Dick Wolf
#8. It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things ...
Aimee Bender
#9. Clearly, 9/11 would have to be some of the best work that I've done because I was working without a template, and that was very difficult. Having nearly been victimized by the north tower, it was difficult to remain composed and be informative.
Ashleigh Banfield
#10. If you're gonna let the character be the story, you better set a tone that allows the actors to do the best work they can do.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#11. Some of the best work that's happening right now is from architects who have remained in their home countries and who have focused on a local or national identity and the idea of critical regionalism.
Cameron Sinclair
#12. The best work that I am able to do is when I am willing to write about questions I haven't quite figured out, or things I'm really wrestling with, things that keep me up at night.
Stephen Karam
#13. I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium.
Jeanette Winterson
#14. I've been gone for a long time. I really want to give the fans something that they deserve to have. So, I'm working really hard on this. I really want to make it the best work I've done so far.
Brandy Norwood
#15. The talent that has to be learned is finding out what someone's passion is and setting them up to realize that. You don't get the best work from people if you're guiding them versus them guiding themselves.
Pete Cashmore
#17. Everyone works hard when they want to, when they get quick results, when it's convenient to put forth effort. The best work hard when they don't want to, when it's inconvenient to give it that little extra effort ... and that extra effort might be just what they need to place them on top.
Peter Vidmar
#18. I've written the best work I know how. And I'm appreciative of the people who read it and care about the work - and that's pretty much the end of that.
Amy Bloom
#19. The only features I've done have been on the lower-budget end, for what they were. It's really all about getting the best people aboard and committing to doing the best work possible and prioritizing where your time is going to be spent.
Mick Garris
#20. I looked long and carefully at the picture of a stag painted by Landseer - the style was good, and the brush was handled with fine effect; but he fails in copying Nature, without which the best work will be a failure.
John James Audubon
#21. As long as you do the best work that you can and not make it bland ... because you're going down a lane that is trying to make everybody happy. You have to take an angle on these things.
Gerard Butler
#22. The child will leave the nest. The best paint job will crack. The best play will become boring. The best work will grow tedious. The best art will lose meaning. The greatest creation will decay. Behind all this, lies my true self.
Vironika Tugaleva
#23. I want to go out there and do the best work I can.
Will Friedle
#24. I think the best work of the director is to listen to what all the technicians around him have to say, but then the thing is to take the best decision, what you think is the best. Then, that is the moment where you have to have all the film in your head and imagine how all of that will fit together.
Marjane Satrapi
#25. You can go out and try to do the best work that you can do within the context of what that is, but it's really gotta be about the work and what you're focusing on.
Johnny Depp
#26. It is always the case with the best work, that it is misrepresented, and disparaged at first, for it takes a curiously long time for new ideas to become current, and the older men who ought to be capable of taking them in freely, will not do so through prejudice.
Francis Galton
#27. It seems to me that the best work I've done - and maybe this is something other people can identify with - was because it was an end in itself. It was something other than making ends meet, it was an escape from all that.
John Maus
#28. Be proud of your Latino culture and do the best work you can do, and you will always succeed.
Lionel Sosa
#29. The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.
Mignon McLaughlin
#30. Honestly, when you're making a movie, you never say, 'Oh, this one's going to suck and go straight to video.' When you're in it, you think you're doing the best work you can do. You're surrounded by people who are working hard. Everybody's hopeful.
Justin Timberlake
#31. The best work never was and never will be done for money.
John Ruskin
#32. I believe that if creative people are open and generous enough when working with each other, a lot more can be learned and achieved by both parties. That's what it's all about, trying to produce the best work possible on any given project.
William Kempe
#33. Design is an art of situations. Designers respond to a need, a problem, a circumstance, that arises in the world. The best work is produced in relation to interesting situations - an open-minded client, a good cause, or great content.
Ellen Lupton
#34. Personally, I do the best work with people I'm closest with. I know what their tastes are, and they are similar to mine. That close personal relationship is what delivers the best work.
Atticus Ross
#35. The best work we can ever do in this world is work on being the greatest version of ourselves so we can continue to give the highest version of this to others.
Grace Gealey
#36. 'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.
Robert B. Parker
#37. The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend upon it for their daily bread, and the highest form of literature, poetry, brings no wealth to the singer. For producing your best work also you will require some leisure and freedom from sordid care.
Oscar Wilde
#38. Some of the best work done to combat the Republicans has been wit and humor.
Julianna Baggott
#39. There were some jobs I wanted that weren't necessarily right for me at the time. The ones I thought I'd never get, I got. As long as I am doing the best work I can possibly do at any given time, I can't do any better than that.
Constance Marie
#40. The writer must be in it; he can't be to one side of it, ever. He has to be endangered by it. His own attitudes have to be tested in it. The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing himself, always.
Arthur Miller
#41. I've gotten jobs because I'm a woman, and I've lost jobs because I'm a woman. So just do the best work you can. It won't go unnoticed.
Gren Wells
#42. You're very in tune with, because actors are all different, and it's very tricky when you throw us all together because we all work differently. You want to get the best work out of every individual actor.
Charlize Theron
#43. Really, what I'm doing is an attempt to continue the best work of the people I adore: Francis Coppola and Scorsese and Robert Altman and Stanley Kubrick and those amazing directors whose work I grew up with and loved.
James Gray
#44. The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.
Arthur Miller
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. I have to be where the best work can be done.
Carlo Rubbia
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. STOP AT NOTHING TO GET THE BEST WORK THAT YOU CAN GET. BETRAY, VIOLATE, CAUSE ENORMOUS HARM.
Joe Frank
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. Giving every child a chance to reach their full potential is the best work anyone can do
Hillary Clinton
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. It was always the most striking scene, the best work, the most disturbing emotion and unsettling idea that attracts criticism.
Rafael Yglesias
#69. 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
#70. The best work for creative folks on the team is when the problem is big and the solution escapes everyone.
Steven Sinofsky
#71. I'm in the trenches; I do the best work I can always do. Having said that, the way that what I do converges with the outside world is fascinating to me. Because it ebbs and flows. People's interest and understanding, it changes all the time.
Daryl Hall
#72. Finally, I truly believe that each of us must find meaning in our work. The best work happens when you know that it's not just work, but something that will improve other people's lives.
Satya Nadella
#73. The only thing I can do is wipe my arse, brush my teeth, turn up and do the best work I can.
Tom Hardy
#74. Some people burn out, and some people like Clint Eastwood, he was a wild, international movie star in his 30s, and he's doing the best work of his life now. Go figure.
Ethan Hawke
#75. The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#76. The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can.
Mandy Patinkin
#77. I don't know how many more movies I'm going to get the opportunity to make and I don't want to look back and go: "Man, I just floated through that one." Or: "I did that one for the money." I want to be able to say that I worked as a hard as I could and I did the best work that I could do.
Tina Fey
#78. All I can do is try to do the best work I can. I need to work, I like to work ... although I complain about it, but I do like it - and I just need to make the best film I can.
Martin Scorsese
#79. Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point.
Seth Godin
#80. I think I grew up, stopped worrying about what people thought of me, and whether things were going to turn out OK. I'm concentrating on doing the best work I can do and letting it go at that.
Janis Ian
#81. I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.
John Darnielle
#82. When the work is the best work, it's more like being a secretary than it is a creative person, you just sort of take the stuff down.
Stephen King
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. I think the best work flows out of a collaborative environment.
Steven Bochco
#89. 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
#90. You can't micromanage. People who try to do that often fall on their faces. Incentivize those who work with you so you get the best work you can. Every career is a team effort, even if you're the one in front.
Michael Franzese
#91. Very often out of adversity that's when the best work comes.
Tom Cochrane
#92. The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how dreaming can be tainted by reality, and that if you don't compromise, you may suffer.
Azar Nafisi
#93. 'Privileged,' without a doubt, was one of the best work experiences of my life. Every crew member cried when we got canceled. But I was then given the opportunity to be in New York and on 'Gossip Girl' and spend the summer in a city that I've absolutely fallen in love with.
Joanna Garcia
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. Critical thinking is essential to make sense of our world, especially with advertisers and politicians all telling us loudly that they know best. We need to be able to look at the evidence and work out whether we agree with them.
Helen Czerski
#99. Ultimately you're trying to reach across and find some other person, some other human warmth. But it is, especially in written poetry, it is inscribed in a text and the text can't do that work by itself and you as a poet can only do your best.
Edward Hirsch
#100. There are no second-place finishers - you don't take silver, you simply lose gold. Second place is nothing but the best loser - nobody lost better than the guy in second place. But on the battlefield that guy usually winds up dead.
Jamie Smith
