Great Work Quotations

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

I think it's important to do great work.

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

I think all the knowledge and all the travels that I've done, I'm going to do a lot of great work in the future.

I've written some great things. That's a gift, but there's consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

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

That, of course, is what great works of imagination do for us: They make us a little restless, destabilize us, question our preconceived notions and formulas.

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

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

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.

A great work of art is one that continues to repay attention.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

It was great working with Kevin Smith - just a dream.

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

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

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

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

No great work of art is ever finished.

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

Great work is always shunned at first.

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.

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

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

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

There is no place for little minds in a great work

Great works of the imagination are not produced quickly nor do they take quick effect on the popular mind.

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

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

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

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.

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

I am driven by great work and seeing people do incredible things and having a part in that.

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

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

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

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

All great artists and thinkers are great workers.

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.

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.

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

Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.