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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.
Sep 10, 2025
I think my best work is when I'm kind of in charge.
You are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe the masses.
Whether the task is writing, design, or hanging a picture straight, it is obvious that we do our best work when healthy, rested, refreshed, alert, and eager to do the job for its own sake.
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.
God does some of God's best work with people who are seriously lost.
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
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.
I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.
Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Look at the sunny side of everything & and make your optimisom come true. Think only of the best, work only for the best. Forget the mistakes of the past & press on the greater achievements of the future. Give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to critize others. Live in the faith that the whole world is on your side as long as you are true to the best that is in you.
In what I do for a living, trust and confidence are key. Inevitably, you can't make brave choices and do your best work, if you don't have those, because it's such a subjective art form, and you don't have eyes on yourself.
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.
Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!
You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.
A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!
When I am wrong, I will learn the lesson and move on to face other challenges. For me, that's what creating your own life is. Doing your best work while being your best self.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
If you want to be the best, Work hardier than the rest. If you don't want to be the best, Just work like the rest.
Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had bad timing.
When the bad stuff was really intense in my life, it was really what you would call writer's block. Your facility is just not as good because you feel so bad. I've heard of people right on the verge of suicide coming up with some of their best work. I wish I could think of an example, other than Van Gogh, perhaps!
I feel that my job is to create an atmosphere where creative people can do their best work.
Confidence and empowerment are cousins in my opinion. Empowerment comes from within and typically it's stemmed and fostered by self-assurance. To feel empowered is to feel free and that's when people do their best work. You can't fake confidence or empowerment.
It is essential for the photographer to know the effect of his lenses. The lens is his eye, and it makes or ruins his pictures. A feeling for composition is a great asset. I think it is very much a matter of instinct. It can perhaps be developed, but I doubt if it can be learned. To achieve his best work, the young photographer must discover what really excites him visually. He must discover his own world.
Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature.
The only thing I can do is wipe my arse, brush my teeth, turn up and do the best work I can.
Work hard at work worth doing.
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.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Let us not torment each other because we are not all alike, but believe that God knew best what He was doing in making us so different. So will the best harmony come out of seeming discords, the best affection out of differences, the best life out of struggle, and the best work will be done when each does his own work, and lets every one else do and be what God made him for.
There was danger at times that women might not be judged by the highest standards, but more leniently because of their sex. "She is a remarkably good chemist--for a woman," you might hear a man say. It seemed to me essential, if the ablest young women scholars were to achieve the best work of which they were capable, that they should be held to the most rigorous standards. ...To advance, a woman must do at least as good work as her male colleagues, usually better.
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
The harder I work the more I live.
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.
A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.