Great Work Quotes

224 quotes by 182 authors

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation. — Walter Bagehot
Some of my best friends are Venture Capitalists, but let's face it, a hamster with Alzheimer's could make those kind of numbers. It's great work… — Scott Adams
A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty. — Nadia Boulanger
The biggest barrier we've seen to student progress is this: School policies and practices often prevent good teachers from doing great work and even dissuade… — Eli Broad
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving… — Albert Camus
Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret. — Albert Camus
All great works of art are trophies of victorious struggle. — Julius Meier-Graefe
It has been said that no great work in literature or in science was ever wrought by a man who did not love solitude. We… — Austin Phelps
Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best. — Marcel Proust
The President responded very impressively, saying that he was deeply sensible of his need of Divine assistance. He had sometime thought that perhaps he might… — Abraham Lincoln
I believe it is in the national interest that government stand side-by-side with people of faith who work to change lives for the better. I… — George W. Bush
Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Those that walk with vigor, three hours a day, will pass in seven years a… — Samuel Johnson
Schools should take part in the great work of construction and organization that will have to be done. — John Dewey
Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy the interposition of a great deity. More humble and I believe true to consider him… — Charles Darwin
Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the spectator of a… — Isaac D'Israeli
One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover. Great works of art seem to look different every time one stands… — Ernst Gombrich
It's rare to find a consistently creative or insightful person who is also an angry person. They can't occupy the same space, and if your… — Seth Godin
The great workman of nature is time. — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
This is the great work of a man: always to take the blame for his own sins before God, and toexpect temptation to his last… — Anthony the Great
You should know what makes one photo brilliant and another. Why one illustration is instructive and another is banal. Why one blurb is clever and… — Jason Calacanis

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