People wanted to get me published, and my early work was…

An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which…

— Bridget Riley

My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.

— Mary Oliver

I like Cronenberg's early work; his '80s films had all these weird, amorphous flesh objects in them.

— Autre Ne Veut

There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's…

— Chaim Potok

It will soon be 25 years from the date of publication of my first research work. That the scientific aspirations kindled by that early…

— C. V. Raman

My work is still very much light-hearted, positive outlook, laugh at yourself. But it isn't going to be the laugh-a-minute kind of thing that…

— Tom Bodett

There are some very similar moments in the early work where the focus was on drawing, abstraction and fragmentation. Then it moved to the…

— Zaha Hadid

My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.

— Douglass North

If you get up early, work late, and pay your taxes, you will get ahead -- if you strike oil.

— J. Paul Getty

Documentation is misleading, because the performance is dead. So the very early works were not documented at all.

— Marina Abramovic

Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'

— Joey Adams

Most of my early work was done on typewriter. And the only way to iterate drafts was to re-type it.

— Seanan McGuire

The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.

— John D. Rockefeller

To be very careful about any work that may harm your early work

— Mak_786

Then I realized my early work did have something special that audiences adored apart from what I humbly thought about them. They occupy a…

— Dario Argento