Own Work Quotes

166 Own Work quotes by 155 unique authors

• The early cyberpunk idea was that networked computers would let us do our work at home, as freelancers, and then transact directly with peers over… — Douglas Rushkoff
• I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work. Let God worry about your modesty; I want to see your… — Robert Farrar Capon
• What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. . .… — Mark Twain
• kar.a.bek.i.an (n.); (from Rabo Karabekian, U.S. 20th Cent. painter). Fiasco in which a person causes total destruction of own work and reputation through stupidity, carelessness… — Kurt Vonnegut
• 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
• 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

Who Wrote These Own Work Quotes

155 authors contributed a total of 166 Own Work Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 3 Own Work Quotes by Mark Twain
• 2 Own Work Quotes by Vera Wang
• 2 Own Work Quotes by Thomas Merton
• 2 Own Work Quotes by Robin G. Collingwood
• 2 Own Work Quotes by Bruce Feiler
• 1 Own Work Quote by Zengzi
• 1 Own Work Quote by Zadie Smith
• 1 Own Work Quote by William Stafford
• 1 Own Work Quote by William Gibson
• 1 Own Work Quote by William Collins
• 1 Own Work Quote by Willard Wigan
• 1 Own Work Quote by Welsh Proverb
• 1 Own Work Quote by W G Sebald
• 1 Own Work Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 1 Own Work Quote by Truman Capote
• 1 Own Work Quote by Tobias Wolff
• 1 Own Work Quote by Tobey Maguire
• 1 Own Work Quote by Theodore Roosevelt
• 1 Own Work Quote by Tasneem Hameed
• 1 Own Work Quote by Sylvia Plath
• 1 Own Work Quote by Swami Vivekananda
• 1 Own Work Quote by Steve Almond
• 1 Own Work Quote by Stephen Sondheim
• 1 Own Work Quote by Simphiwe Scientist Dumi
• 1 Own Work Quote by Simone de Beauvoir