Your Own Work Quotes

33 quotes by 32 authors

Whether for life or death, do your own work well. — John Ruskin
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
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
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
The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it. — Andrew Carnegie
To look at the work of your peers, and learn how to explain with kindness and precision, the nature of their mistakes is, in fact,… — Steve Almond
Try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would. — Zadie Smith
In every attempt there will be one set of men who will applaud, and another who will pick holes. Go on doing your own work,… — Swami Vivekananda
Just imagine how much you'd get done if you stopped actively sabotaging your own work. — Seth Godin
The key is to do your own work. — Kyle Bass
As a good picture would come, I would never know exactly what I had done. When you did see it, it would strike you as… — Emmet Gowin
What I want to tell you today is not to move into that world where you're alone with yourself and your mantra and your fitness… — Joan Didion
All I can tell you is that you cannot make choices in your own career, either career choices or choices when you're actually working as… — Brandon Lee
It's very strange to go from being completely secluded and doing your own work for yourself, to having an audience - and having an audience… — Jhonen Vasquez
Read like mad. But try to do it analytically - which can be hard, because the better and more compelling a novel is, the less… — Sarah Waters
There is probably some long-standing "rule" among writers, journalists, and other word-mongers that says: "When you start stealing from your own work you're in bad… — Hunter S. Thompson
I think as long as you're being creative and finding your own work interesting, that's all that matters. — Katy B
I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work. — James Frey
The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity. — Nikki Giovanni
The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern. — Daniel Alarcon

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