Great Work Quotes

If you do the bare minimum, expect bare minimum results. You want to be great, work to be great. Nothing just happens

To create great work, here's how you must spend your time: 1% Inspiration 9% Perspiration 90% Justification

No great work of art is ever finished.

It is better to begin a great work than to finish a small one.

There is no place for little minds in a great work

Regardless of your ethnicity or anything, if you do great work, people will notice and you'll get hired.

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

My friends, if we are going to do a great work for God, we must spend much time in prayer; we have got to be closeted with God.

Families mean work,but they are our great work,and we are not afraid of work.

All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.

When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.

We are here to do a great work because the mind that created us knew what it wanted us to do when it created us.

All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.

All great artists and thinkers are great workers.

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.

I guess maybe another gift I have is a great work ethic.

If all the people around you are happy with you, you are not doing great work. Progress is disruption and change.

You don't fully understand the meaning of a work until the audience responds to it. Because the audience completes the circle, and adds a whole other shade of meaning. Whenever you view something, and this is why great works of art survive decades and centuries, is because there's a door within the work that allows the audience to walk through and complete the meaning of the work. An audience isn't passive, nor are they unintelligent.

A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.

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.

No man ever did or can do a great work alone.

Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and this is its whole secret.

Ultimately, if you are doing great work, the money will come.

Jesus was a great worker, and His disciples must not be afraid of hard work.

The proper response to a great work of art is to enter it as though there were nothing else in the world.

If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost.

A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.

Our best work can't possibly appeal to the average masses, only our average work can. Finding the humility to happily walk away from those that don't get it unlocks our ability to do great work.

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.

As you've probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.

A pro is someone who can do great work when he doesn't feel like it.

It seems to be a characteristic of all great work that it creators wear a cloak of imprecision.

It's not about my career now. It's just about finding great work and having a good time.

All the great things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is they who have founded religions and created great works of art.

I wrote Baghdad Central right after translating a great work by Ibrahim al-Koni, who is sort of a master of Arab fiction. In conversations with him I realized that translations have been my MFA program. If I have learned how to write fiction it's by working with great writers and getting them to explain their craft to me so that I can do it in English. That's how I've figured it out.

If continually people look and look and always come away enriched, then it's a great work

That's the happiest I am, when I'm doing great work.

Great work is always shunned at first.

Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone.

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

James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.

I am especially indebted to a 10th grade English teacher who encouraged me to read great works of literature.

There is no such thing as great work without longevity.

Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s was mind altering.

The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise.

Great work is the result of seeking out tension, not avoiding it.

It's great working with directors and with somebody else's vision.

The great works belong to no one nation, no one cultural tradition even. They are universal.

My theatrical background was in the great work of the South African playwright Athol Fugard.

We goofed around a lot and acted silly. It was great working with Mark Wahlberg too. Some off scenes I had with him I was terrified to do, but he was great.