Words matter. These are the best Best Work Quotes from famous people such as Claire Messud, Ethan Slater, Jeff Lemire, John Frankenheimer, Daryl Hall, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The effort to create a work of art that is true and potentially lasting, that is the very best work of art you can create at that point in your life – a book that may only reach or move a few people but will seem to those people somehow transformative. That’s the ideal; that’s always the motivation.
When I’m in the audience of Broadway shows, I feel like I’m in the presence of something really special with artists working at the height of their craft and doing the best work that they possibly can.
When I do my best work, the stories tend to be pretty emotionally-charged.
I feel that my job is to create an atmosphere where creative people can do their best work.
I’m in the trenches; I do the best work I can always do. Having said that, the way that what I do converges with the outside world is fascinating to me. Because it ebbs and flows. People’s interest and understanding, it changes all the time.
Many of the greatest composers and musicians do their best work in extreme confinement but we are seeing it in other fields – uses of technology to link people together in networks to solve problems and almost certainly we’ll get better ideas than we would from them just doing it on their own.
I worked on new plays at the Traverse and did my best work in Scotland for years, so I never had ambitions for things like Disney.
The tricky thing about songwriting is that, more often than not, what you consider to be your best work generates a collective shrug, and something you’ve simply tossed off bowls people over.
I was wondering if the best was behind me, had the high point of my career already happened. Then I saw what Manolo had done, and some of his best work happened after he turned 40.
Confidence and empowerment are cousins in my opinion. Empowerment comes from within and typically it’s stemmed and fostered by self-assurance. To feel empowered is to feel free and that’s when people do their best work. You can’t fake confidence or empowerment.
Fifty is the new forty. I always thought my best work would come in the years forty to sixty, if I was fortunate enough to hang around – and it is hard to stick around.
When I think less and just go out there and perform, I do my best work.
When I’m not worrying about what other people want, that’s when I do the best work.
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 very difficult. Having nearly been victimized by the north tower, it was difficult to remain composed and be informative.
Some of the things I’m most proud of, it isn’t because I think it’s my best work; it’s because of something that it’s taught me.
Liar’ is the best work I’ve done.
For me, I do my best work when I feel completely relaxed and not being judged.
The pieces I’ve written for ‘Outside’ magazine are definitely my best work, and they’re virtually all about the outdoors.
I’ve always thought we’ve done our best work when everything is on the line.
I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.
In sports, you play up to the level of your opponent, and I did some of my best work with Chevy, and I’m so grateful to have worked opposite him. He was a handful and a challenge, and he made me step up to the plate.
The most challenging work and the best work I’ve ever done was in a thing I did for PBS called ‘Lemon Sky’, a play by Lanford Wilson. I think it’s the rawest, most complex work that I’ve had to do, and the thing I’m most proud of.
‘All Our Yesterdays’ was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.
I just want to do the best work wherever I go. It could be here in Pakistan or India or anywhere else.
U2’s best work has always been when we didn’t know what we’re doing.
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 to want to do their best work.
The greats – they protect their sleep because it’s where the best work comes from. They say no to things. They turn in when they hit their limits. They don’t let the creep of sleep deprivation undermine their judgment.
Sometimes it just doesn’t translate to people. You just move on, and you feel bad because people worked so hard on it and everyone loved it… Everybody was treated so well and was going for something and trying to do the best work possible.
Showing that you consistently have their best interests at heart not only motivates your people to do their best work; it also builds goodwill that you may need to draw on when the going gets tough and you have to lean on one another to find the horizon.
I think the best work flows out of a collaborative environment.
I really admire people who have the integrity and dignity to hold out for the best work, even if that means you’re not going to work for six months. But I don’t have that.
Labels need to work with artists to help them achieve their best work, not to jam records out that are half-baked or three-quarters baked.
When I wrote ‘The Rozabal Line,’ I had no preconceived notions of what a commercial bestseller should be. I have always viewed ‘The Rozabal Line’ as my first love and probably my best work. The fact, however, is that it is my least read work.
Some people burn out, and some people like Clint Eastwood, he was a wild, international movie star in his 30s, and he’s doing the best work of his life now. Go figure.
Different actors have different rhythms. My goal as a director is to let these guys get their best work out.
I think my very best work came out when I was about 60, not when I was 20. I was publishing all the time when I was in my 20s, and some of those poems I still like. And there were a few after 60, and in my 70s, that I like. But they became fewer and fewer.
I used to think that if I did my very best work, then everyone would love it, but I’ve realised that not everybody thinks the same things are good. It took me 30 years even to begin to see that.
I don’t think the roles that I’m necessarily known for in this country are my best work, or even anywhere near it. I didn’t think I was great in ‘Arcadia.’ I think it’s a great part and a great play and had a lot of attention.
In the ’80s, it was difficult and frustrating to appear in the theater and TV again, even though I had some successful shows and hit records. Now, I have to say, the ’90s are the best decade of my life. I’ve done the best work and, in a funny way, I’m enjoying the most success… more than in the ’70s.
Statistically, I’ve done my best work at FC Bayern. I just feel really good here.
Some of the greatest artists did their best work when they got political.
Very often out of adversity that’s when the best work comes.
As a content creator, all you can do is do your best work and then hope that it resonates somehow with an audience.
My best work happened on the stage.
I feel like I do my best work when I am put into scenarios where there’s some in-depth story to be told.
I have never done anything but my very best work for anyone, and to do this and retain my first fine enthusiasm over a period of thirty years has required a rather special set of working conditions.
The basic thing is that I want to do the best work possible, and I can only do that if I’m relaxed and have a lot of energy. And that can only come from taking time off.
I feel like I haven’t done my best work yet. I feel like there’s a world of possibilities out there.
I’m not an impressionist as such, and I never will be, so the sketches where I was supposed to be a famous person probably weren’t my best work.
It’s hard to edit. It’s hard to stay focused. And yet, we know we’ll only do our best work if we stay focused. And so, you know, the hardest decisions we made are all the things not to work on, frankly.
The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, ‘What do you think?’ I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
You get the best out of people by allowing them to do their best work.
When I feel like I’m doing my best work, there is a bit of a freedom, a bit of flight that you’re not so much losing yourself but you’re sort of in the zone.
See, what you’re meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren’t you? Well, I’ve always had fast cars. It’s not that. It’s the fear that you’re past your best. It’s the fear that the stuff you’ve done in the past is your best work.
I’ve worked in network and cable on and off for a number of years, and you just understand what your parameters are. A lot of times, I think the best work that my team has come up with comes from having to deal with certain boundaries.
A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn’t feel like it.
I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work before you’re forty-five. Having passed that significant date, I thought I would do something else.
