Their Work Quotes

399 Their Work quotes by 355 unique authors

The quiet people just do their work. — Joyce Carol Oates
Most artists, ashamed of their need for encouragement, try to carry their work to term like a secret pregnancy. — Julia Cameron
The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky sentence,… — Janet Fitch
I am not an artist and never have been. Rather I am like a craftsman and feel very close to the mediaeval artisans who produced… — Werner Herzog
Only dull and impotent artists screen their work with sincerity. In art there is need for truth, not sincerity. — Kazimir Malevich
Experimentalists never know when their work is finished. — Daniel H. Pink
Artists want to sell their work, sure. But they aren't out there asking questions about what people want and what they don't want, now are… — Michael Scott
A finer body of men has never been gathered by any nation than the men who have done the work of building the Panama Canal;… — Theodore Roosevelt
When an acting teacher tells a student 'that wasn't honest work' or 'that didn't seem real,' what does this mean? In life, we are rarely… — Stella Adler
All journalists hope that their work will inspire a broader conversation. I think that's just what journalism is. — Sebastian Junger
Five percent seems very little to ask when you consider that the artist, through his or her efforts over many years, is largely responsible for… — Joe Fafard
Surfaces reveal so much. The marks painters make reveal so much about their work and themselves; their sense of proportion, line, and rhythm is more… — John Paul Caponigro
I am very impressed by The Carrivick Sisters, one of the best young duos Iâ€™ve heard. The girls sing and play as one and their… — Ralph McTell
Whenever anyone wants others to do their work they call upon their Altruism. 'Never mind your own needs,' they say, 'Think of the needs of...… — Andrew Ryan
The leaves do not change color from the blighting touch of the frost, but from the process of natural decay. They fall when the fruit… — Tryon Edwards
It's hard for writers to get on with their work if they are convinced that they owe a concrete debt to experience and cannot allow… — Saul Bellow
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism. — Robert Frost
It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of… — Lady Gaga
We can't all work in the inner city. And, I don't even think that it is incumbent upon an African-American intellectual to be concerned in… — Henry Louis Gates
Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength… — Joseph Conrad

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