Best My Own Work Quotes
61 My Own Work quotes by 58 unique authors
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I myself, a professional mathematician, on re-reading my own work find it strains my mental powers to recall to mind from the figures the meanings…
— Johannes Kepler
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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I…
— J M Coetzee
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For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.
— Benoit Mandelbrot
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Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don't really believe I am being impersonal when…
— Roy Lichtenstein
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I'm so critical of my own work that it's difficult for me to disassociate myself and watch it as an audience.
— Tobey Maguire
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My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books. I've learned that…
— Jeff VanderMeer
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I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of…
— Adam Michnik
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I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.
— Cameron Mackintosh
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It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It's…
— Jonathan Franzen
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In fact, since no one's been interested in my work, I took the responsibility recently to invest in my own work, so I'm producing a…
— Joseph Jarman
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The truth is that I don't like rehearsals. I get embarrassed hearing my own work. I assume that the cast is embarrassed to sing the…
— Stephen Sondheim
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You can't live in the past, and I don't. I'm not nostalgic about my own work at all.
— Elvis Costello
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When money enters in - then, for a price, I become a liar - and a good one I can be whether with pencil or…
— Edward Weston
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As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I'll continue to subsidize my own work.
— Francis Ford Coppola
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Personally I always feel like I could use a little more of poetry apothegmatic power in my own work but we're always lacking something.
— Junot Diaz
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I guess when I look over my shoulder at other designers, I feel like people are so definitive. It's so clear to me what their…
— Marc Jacobs
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In my own work, I'd say I'm a classicist, but I look everywhere for my solutions. I don't study the toilet-living habits of my clients,…
— Philip Johnson
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In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I…
— Alice Munro
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Well, I think in my own work the subject matter usually deals with characters I know, aspects of myself, friends of mine - that sort…
— Martin Scorsese
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It's really important to me to keep growing as a writer, to look for new challenges and be harshly critical of my own work in…
— J. Michael Straczynski
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I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.
— Mel Brooks
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I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.
— Madonna Ciccone
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My life is a discipline, a prison: I live for my own work, without which I am nothing.
— Sylvia Plath
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For me, competition is good; that is what keeps me on my toes and keeps me going. I am always trying to better my own…
— Deepika Padukone
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I became frustrated early on as a playwright by a kind of smug smallness in modern drama. There was a lack of what I now…
— Ellen McLaughlin
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