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Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great. -- Fernando Flores
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. -- Thornton Wilder
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
The Great Work is, before all things, the creation of man by himself, that is to say, the full and entire conquest of his faculties and his future; it is especially the perfect emancipation of his will. -- Eliphas Levi
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
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
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. -- Steve Jobs
The Great Work - the work of ensuring a just, healthy, beautiful, and sustainably life-giving world for future generations of all species. -- Thomas Berry
It is not just the Great Works of mankind that make a culture. It is the daily things, like what people eat and how they serve it. -- Laurie Colwin
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. -- Joseph Joubert
All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen. -- Sidney Lumet
A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty. -- Nadia Boulanger
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. -- Oscar Wilde
The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work -- Steve Jobs
Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret. -- Albert Camus
No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation. -- Walter Bagehot
The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams. -- Jay Chiat
Great work comes from great joy. Leave the angst for the movies; do art - that is fun. -- Jack White
I am driven by great work and seeing people do incredible things and having a part in that. -- Tim Cook
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Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles. -- Swami Vivekananda
Seeing other people do great work is its own form of inspiration and far more powerful than borrowing their ideas. -- Kody Chamberlain
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity. -- Lester Bangs
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity. -- Lester Bangs
Ministers of God's choosing are engaged in a great work. They are warring not merely against men, but Satan and his angels. -- Ellen G. White
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you daven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. -- Steve Jobs
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
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
Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work. Few things will make you feel better than a job brilliantly done. -- Robin S. Sharma
Futurism today is led by science-fiction writers, by sociologists, by historians. Now, I have nothing against them. I'm sure they do great work. But they're not scientists. They're clueless. -- Michio Kaku
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
For while agents and editors often misunderstand their market and sometimes reject good or even great works, they do prevent a vast quantity of truly execrable writing from being published. -- Laura Miller
A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting - poof! - that they're going to produce great work. -- Anne Sweeney
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
Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Those that walk with vigor, three hours a day, will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe. -- Samuel Johnson
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. -- Seth Godin
At Netflix, we think you have to build a sense of responsibility where people care about the enterprise. Hard work, like long hours at the office, doesn't matter as much to us. We care about great work. -- Reed Hastings
As a species, we are most animated when our days and nights on Earth are touched by the natural world. We can find immeasurable joy in the birth of a child, a great work of art, or falling in love. -- Richard Louv
The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary. -- Henry Miller
I'm particularly proud of my work with the Starkey Hearing Foundation for whom I raised a million dollars in one day on 'Celebrity Apprentice.' They do great work around the world helping deaf children in developing countries get proper attention and free hearing aids. -- Marlee Matlin
If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist. -- Ellen Terry
Every great work of art should be considered like any work of nature. First of all from the point of view of its aesthetic reality and then not just from its development and the mastery of its creation but from the standpoint of what has moved and agitated its creator. -- Amedeo Modigliani
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
Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family. -- Henri Nouwen
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
Hermeticism is the science of nature hidden in the hieroglyphics and symbols of the ancient world. It is the search for the principle of life, along with the dream (for those who have not yet achieved it) of accomplishing the great work, that is the reproduction by man of the divine, natural fire which creates and recreates beings. -- Eliphas Levi
In consequence of our limited ideas of the sufferings of Christ, we place a low estimate upon the great work of the atonement. The glorious plan of man's salvation was brought about through the infinite love of God the Father. In this divine plan is seen the most marvelous manifestation of the love of God to the fallen race. -- Ellen G. White
Hard work precedes great success. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Woman work a great many miracles. -- Louisa May Alcott
My parents had a great work ethic. -- Charlie Rose
Great work is always shunned at first. -- Seth Godin
The great souls work with great passion. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Great teams work harder after a tough loss. -- Ron Brown
No great achievement is possible without persistent work. -- Bertrand Russell
Without great solitude no serious work is possible. -- Pablo Picasso
Holly Hunter has been doing great work forever. -- Patricia Clarkson
May God strengthen you for a great work. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
ESPN is a great organization to work for. -- Lou Holtz
No great work of art is ever finished. -- Michelangelo
I think it's important to do great work. -- Kyra Sedgwick
May the Lord strengthen you for every great work. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
There is an overflowing grace, for every great work. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I work with great gladness for what I want. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Motherhood is, after all, woman's great and incomparable work. -- Edward Carpenter
It's great to get to work with your idols. -- Joel Kinnaman
As you've probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable. -- Seth Godin
What a great pleasure to work for your living? -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Don't wait to be compelled to do great work. -- Richie Norton
I was a great admirer of George Lucas' work. -- Richard Marquand
There's a great place to go when you're broke--to work! -- Dave Ramsey
Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries. -- Victor Hugo
Always give your best; today's great work is tomorrow's benchmark. -- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great. -- Liz Smith
There is no such thing as great work without longevity. -- Johnny Hunt
Behind every great idea is someone saying "It won't work" -- John C. Maxwell
I find fear is a great motivator to work hard. -- Greg Kinnear
I've been able to work with great directors in Israel. -- Hani Furstenberg
That's the happiest I am, when I'm doing great work. -- John Leguizamo
Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. -- Iain Duncan Smith
Having your work honored nationally is a great morale booster. -- Ellen Gilchrist
Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses. -- Kobe Bryant
It's believable because great things don't happen without hard work -- Robert Griffin III
Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders. -- Steve Ballmer
Songwriting is a great release. It helps me work through things. -- Jo Dee Messina
The instinct to produce great work doesn't require a fancy notebook. -- Seth Godin
The secret of all great undertakings is hard work and self-reliance -- Gustavus Franklin Swift
Any work that is really great hovers between terrific and terrible. -- Laurie Simmons
Thanks to my work everything's going well; it's a great consolation. -- Claude Monet
People who accomplish great things work toward their objectives every day. -- Zig Ziglar
It was a great learning experience to work with James Stewart. -- Julie Adams
I'm always afraid of failing. It's great motivation to work harder. -- Mark Cuban
Ultimately, if you are doing great work, the money will come. -- Lee Clow
The great recipe for success is to work, and always work. -- Leon Gambetta
The strength of every individual is the grace for great work. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
There is no place for little minds in a great work -- Manly Hall
Only when the heart loves can the intellect do great work. -- Newell Dwight Hillis
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No man ever did or can do a great work alone. -- Elbert Hubbard
I consider my work great, as I am a great artist. -- Pola Negri
I would love to work with Shane Meadows - great director. -- Lena Headey
When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results. -- Calvin Coolidge
Great companies with the way they work, first start with great leaders. -- Steve Ballmer
A great work of art is one that continues to repay attention. -- Christopher Ricks
If the work is the horse, a career makes a great cart. -- Zoe Leonard
Men can be a great deal of work for very little reward. -- Glenda Jackson
I guess maybe another gift I have is a great work ethic. -- Vince McMahon
I'm fortunate in being able to find great satisfaction in my work. -- Phillip Lopate
I've gotten to work with some great people. I've been really lucky. -- Corey Haim
Great work is the result of seeking out tension, not avoiding it. -- Seth Godin
Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man's being. -- Orison Swett Marden
If you want great tranquility/ It's hard work and a long walk -- Charles Wright
In every work a reward added makes the pleasure twice as great. -- Euripides
Great companies have been reduced by hiring executives that don't work out. -- Dylan Smith
The Gita is not an aphoristic work, it is a great religious poem. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I love to work with people who are great at what they do. -- Andrej Pejic
Your life's work begins when your great joy meets the world's great hunger. -- Kate Bornstein
Kurt Russell is so dreamy. Plus, he's great to work with, really respectful. -- Vanessa Ferlito
Kurt Russell is so dreamy. Plus, he's great to work with, really respectful." -- Vanessa Ferlito
When you see a great teacher, you are seeing a work of art, -- Geoffrey Canada
When you work with a great director, you can have a great partnership. -- Guillermo del Toro

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