Own Work Quotes

166 Own Work quotes by 155 unique authors

I think this co-operative scheme is an uncommonly good one. It's much easier to work on someone else's job than one's own - gives one… — Dorothy L. Sayers
The fruitfulness of our lives depends in large measure in our ability to doubt our own words and to question the value of our own… — Thomas Merton
To be truthful, some writers stop you dead in your tracks by making you see your own work in the most unflattering light. Each of… — Francine Prose
Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work, and perhaps that is… — W G Sebald
I suggest you keep your distance from her and concentrate on your own work.” “I’m in love with her.” “I am sorry to hear that,”… — Erin Morgenstern
Watching him with one eye, she wondered if men ever figured out that they were more appealing when they were pursuing their own work than… — Mary Doria Russell
If you don't like what you're doing, it's unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are happy with your own work first. — Billy Wilder
My English teacher said that a writer is the worst judge of his own work. — Ilsa J. Bick
I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art. — Madonna Ciccone
Learn to say No—and to be rude about it when necessary. Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do… — Robert A. Heinlein
My life is a discipline, a prison: I live for my own work, without which I am nothing. — Sylvia Plath
To be able to see the flaws in your own work is a gift. — Jude Deveraux
No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work. — Mother Teresa
You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work. — William Gibson
[The blame for the future 'plight of civilization] must rest on scientific men, equally with others, for being incapable of accepting the responsibility for the… — Frederick Soddy
Children who plan their own schedules and evaluate their own work build up their brains and learn to take more responsibility. — Bruce Feiler
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
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
Most designers and creative agencies, no matter their industry niche, will do some nonprofit or cause-related work at some stage of their career. This work… — Peleg Top
I am beyond critical of my own work. I always tell actors they have to watch themselves 4-7 times in a given scene before they… — Julie Ann Emery
My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests. — Philip Warren Anderson
I criticize my own work pretty harshly. — Ritchie Blackmore
I had therefore, no hesitation in giving all the information I had, even though occasionally I tried to concentrate mainly on giving information about the… — Klaus Fuchs
The only time you actually are a spectator of your own work is the day you read the script. — Antonio Banderas
I started to make my own films, however small and however independent they were, from the beginning. And so, even though I was nobody, I… — Mira Nair

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