Own Work Quotes
166 quotes by 155 authors
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Kids who are least impressive in my class are the ones who only listen to one kind of music. They only listen to country or…
— Andy Wilkinson
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I definitely intend to create my own work in the future so that we don't have to keep saying we don't have work for black…
— Lupita Nyong'o
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I hardly ever watch my own work. I just end up picking myself apart! I can't even stand to hear myself on voicemail. the sound…
— Grey DeLisle
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In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in…
— Paul Allen
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For more than twenty years by my own work and personal initiative, I have gathered from all the old streets of Vieux Paris photographic plates,…
— Eugene Atget
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Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you…
— George Eliot
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But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will
— Bill Sienkiewicz
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I always wanted to create this community that would come and tell their own story, shoot it - and watch them. The idea is to…
— Michel Gondry
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You have to do your own work; Enlightened Ones will only show the way. Those who practise meditation will free themselves from the chains of…
— Gautama Buddha
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In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a…
— James Schuyler
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The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.
— Andrew Carnegie
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I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done.
— Mick Jagger
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A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image. For my own work, when a picture looks labored and…
— Helen Frankenthaler
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He brings to naught, destroys and rejects all that is not His own work; how He draws everything to Himself and absorbs it, that at…
— Gerhard Tersteegen
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Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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A woman who is perfectly woman is superior to a man who is imperfectly man, just as a farmer who is faithful to his land…
— Julius Evola
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It's always hard to predict what's coming up next. My main guess is that content creators will increasingly start using BitTorrent to distribute their own…
— Bram Cohen
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I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies…
— Alice Hoffman
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Children who plan their own goals, set weekly schedules, evaluate their own work build up their frontal cortex and take more control over their lives.
— Bruce Feiler
Who Wrote These Own Work Quotes
155 authors contributed a total of 166 Own Work Quotes, led by these top contributors: