Best work Quote by Peter Matthiessen Download Open image “You do your best work when you're not conscious of yourself.” — Peter Matthiessen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Best work Conscious Consciousness Self conscious Self consciousness Work
Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it. — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
“When you find yourself working without inhibition, this is your creative voice beginning to be heard. Learn to recognize it. The moments when your… — Sean Starr Copy Share Image
To do your best work, you have to enjoy what you do and the people around you. — Baiju Bhatt Copy Share Image
While we're working, we must be conscious of what we're doing. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions. — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Your work is to discover your work and then, with all your heart, to give yourself to it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Alec Wilkinson is a spare, clear, and lucid writer who works in stylistic simplicity with material that is not simple at all. — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
Figures dark beneath their loads pass down the far bank of the river, rendered immortal by the streak of sunset upon their shoulders — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
The great stillness in these landscapes that once made me restless seeps into me day by day, and with it the unreasonable feeling that… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“...experience was static in the valley; it was older than time itself, for time was a thing of but two generations, dated by moons… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“The central feature of the practice of meditation and hard work known as Zen is that, as Matthiessen says, it “has no patience with mysticism, far less the occult.” Nor does it have any time with moralism, the prescriptions or distortions we would impose on the world, obscuring it from our view. It asks, it insists rather, that we take… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share
For some time I watch the coming of the night? Above is the glistening galaxy of childhood, now hidden in the Western world by… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“Nonfiction at its best is like fashioning a cabinet. It can be elegant and very beautiful but it can never be sculpture. Captive to facts—or predetermined forms—it cannot fly. Excepting those masters who transcend their craft—great medieval and Renaissance artisans, for example, or nameless artisans of traditional cultures as far back as the caves who were also spontaneous unselfconscious artists.… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share
Soon the child’s clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions, and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor of the ego. Not until years later does an instinct come that a vital sense of mystery has been withdrawn. The sun glints through the pines and the heart is pierced in a moment of beauty… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share
“In the book of Job, the Lord demands, “Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?” “I was there!”-surely that is the answer to God’s question. For no matter how the universe came into being, most of the atoms in these fleeting assemblies that we think of as our bodies have been in existence since the beginning.… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share
I meditate for the last time on this mountain that is bare, though others all around are white with snow. Like the bare peak of the koan, this one is not different from myself. I know this mountain because I am this mountain, I can feel it breathing at this moment, as its grass tops stray against the snows. If… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share
The only features I've done have been on the lower-budget end, for what they were. It's really all about getting the best people aboard… — Mick Garris Copy Share Image
The books we enjoy as children stay with us forever -- they have a special impact. Paragraph after paragraph and page after page, the… — Sid Fleischman Copy Share Image
To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
You and I are stymied in our own creativity. We can only create as sub-creators, and even then our best work is only sub-creation. — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
There's no way a director can communicate with every single person on the set and yet they need to motivate and instill an ambition… — Kathleen Kennedy Copy Share Image
The only thing I can do is wipe my arse, brush my teeth, turn up and do the best work I can. — Tom Hardy Copy Share Image
The best work for creative folks on the team is when the problem is big and the solution escapes everyone. — Steven Sinofsky Copy Share Image
There should always be that leeway because if you think of your character as sort of absolutely fixed, then you just try and find… — Lenny Abrahamson Copy Share Image
Clearly, 9/11 would have to be some of the best work that I've done because I was working without a template, and that was… — Ashleigh Banfield Copy Share Image
The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Do a good job. You don't have to worry about the money; it will take care of itself. Just do your best work then… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
