“Musicians become professionals by playing a hundred live shows. Likewise, writers become authors by publishing a lot of bad work (until it’s… — Jeff Goins Copy Share Image
I've been lucky. The critics never went out of their way to single me out for doing bad work. — James Caan Copy Share Image
I wanted to find my limitations so I decided to do Shylock. And if I fail? I've never been afraid of that.… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
What you might consider a bad work can be of extreme interest to an artist in ways which are not about its… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
Acting ceases to be work because I enjoy it. But it feels like working when I do bad work, especially when I… — Kamal Haasan Copy Share Image
“Oh, my dear fellow, if you want to be a gentleman you must give up being an artist. They’ve got nothing to… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Elaboration is not beauty, and sand-paper never finished a piece of bad work. — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the writer has to learn the hard way of creating a bad work to become a best-seller yet doesn't surrender to… — Millicent Ashby Copy Share Image
Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty,… — Plato Copy Share Image
“You can't find your true voice and peer behind the door and report honestly and clearly to us if your parents are… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I'm a designer, I love it, and I haven't worked this hard to do bad work. — Genevieve Gorder Copy Share Image
When you celebrate somebody's bad work on the terms that define their good work, how can that artist have anything but contempt… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
“No settled family or community has ever called its home place an “environment.” None has ever called its feeling for its home… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I've done some awful auditions, and I've really done some horrible work, but it forced me to flex those muscles, and that's… — Melanie Scrofano Copy Share Image
I get flack for saying [when I visit a college and give a speech], "This is a nice college, but the really… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The bad workmen who form the majority of the operatives in many branches of industry are decidedly of opinion that bad workmen… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Get over it - If you have a bad workout or run a bad race, allow yourself exactly 1 hour to stew… — Steve Scott Copy Share Image
One of the worst things you can do is have a limited budget and try to do some big looking film. That's… — Roger Corman Copy Share Image
