Best work Quote by Robert McKee Download Open image “Ninety percent of what we create is not our best work.” — Robert McKee ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Best work Ninety Percent
“We are made to exaggerate the importance of what work we do; and yet how much is not done by us!” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is. — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
We cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
To justify our likes and dislikes, we generally say that the work we dislike is not serious. — Walter Sickert Copy Share Image
The severest test of work today, is not of our strategies, but of our imaginations and identities. — David Whyte Copy Share Image
We are more than the work we perform. In fact, I'd say that our work is a mere representation of who we are underneath. — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
Story isn't a flight from reality but a vehicle that carries us on our search for reality, — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Don't be didactic - don't write about poverty. Write about poor people. When you dramatize their lives and let life and characters be your… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Talent without craft is like fuel without an engine, it burns wildly but accomplishes nothing. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
“If the story you're telling, is the story you're telling, you're in deep shit.” — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Classical design is a mirror of the human mind. It's how we see the world. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
To get the truth, you want to get your own heart to pound while you write. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
The universal erosion of values has lead to the universal erosion of story. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Good story' means something worth telling that the world wants to hear. Finding this is your lonely task...But the love of a good story,… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
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
