You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work…

I mean, on the food chain, do instruments really rate? I don't think so.

— Peabo Bryson

I really rate Ivan Toney so much.

— Chris Sutton

There is no room in the world, as you say, for second rate work.

— Gerald Finzi

The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.

— Arnold Bennett

My music has always been the same. It's the same kinda music but of a better quality. For me nothing really changes just the…

— Wretch 32

“I’d rate his work at four stars. Of course, he is a general, so maybe I could pin my rating on his lapel.”

— Jarod Kintz

A building does not have to be an important work of architecture to become a first-rate landmark. Landmarks are not created by architects. They…

— Herbert Muschamp

If there is a well thought-out design standard, it should be followed. In practice, great design comes from great designers. That is empirically the…

— Edward Tufte

I was a manual labourer. I figured out really early on that the value of my life could be determined by my hourly rate…

— Cliff Curtis

The collection is a labor of love and devotion, and whenever I found free time from my journalism work, I'd work on one story…

— Andrew Lam

“Get in touch with your passion and put it to work at work.”

— Marilyn Suttle

I never look at a clock. When the work's done, the work's done.

— Tom Thibodeau

“We are often more a piece of work than a work of art.”

— R.J. Grunewald

“Not enough hours to work? Or not enough work in the hours?”

— Saad Ireland

We honor life when we work. The type of work is not important: the fact of work is. All work feeds the soul if…

— Matthew Fox