Top 88 Great Work Quotes

I love any books by Kelly Sue DeConnick or Marjorie M. Liu; it’s lovely to have successful, talented female writers doing great work in comics.

I never thought I was doing any great work. I never thought I would last. In the beginning, I was terrible. I never used to speak to people. I used to start crying. I was extra sensitive. I would run away home and feel miserable. I didn’t know how to behave then. I was touchy. People interpreted it as arrogance.

Holly Hunter has been doing great work forever.

Nothing great was ever achieved without great work and great effort. It’s really that simple.

By the time I got to be director of product management at Thomas-Conrad, I was in a better negotiating position, as I had accumulated more accomplishments and gained a reputation for having a great work ethic.

I’m proud of my hard work. Working hard won’t always lead to the exact things we desire. There are many things I’ve wanted that I haven’t always gotten. But, I have a great satisfaction in the blessings from my mother and father, who instilled a great work ethic in me both personally and professionally.

Who’s to say I can’t find some great work when I’m 55 or 65?

No matter how hard I tried to popularize, I never cheapened a great work of art.

I think all the knowledge and all the travels that I’ve done, I’m going to do a lot of great work in the future.

A lot of my energy is going to Code for America, Jen Pahlka’s non-profit startup. We’re doing a lot of great work teaching government how to apply technology and changing the culture of government.

The majority of great work that’s being done in the theater is happening Off Broadway, where you can’t make a living.

I look up to a strong woman; maybe that’s why I fell for Gaga. She works incredibly hard and is very strong and inspirational like Mom, with a great work ethic.

I wanted to do something new and different. People expected me to do negative roles. I wanted to break the norm, and because of that, I lost on some great work as well.

The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.

I guess maybe another gift I have is a great work ethic.

I’m very drawn to subversive comedy like Alexander Payne and Jason Reitman. But at the end of the day, if you want to do great work, you have to pay your dues.

At Netflix, we think you have to build a sense of responsibility where people care about the enterprise. Hard work, like long hours at the office, doesn’t matter as much to us. We care about great work.

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

If you’re a leader, can communicate, and have a great work ethic, those are the things you’re looking for.

We have about 360,000 employees in the VA health care system. It’s the largest health care system in the country. And the negative attention that’s been put on VA has hurt the morale of our workforce. And so what we’re trying to do is to get people to understand that we’re doing great work every day.

I love Hunch, the awesome team, my brilliant cofounders – we’re doing great work and building a great company.

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret.

In the 1970s and 1980s, I got to do some great work. The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.

You have to strike a balance between imprinting the film with your voice, and trusting these amazing, talented people you’ve hired to do great work.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.

I was so grateful to work on ‘Bunheads.’ We had so much material, and everything was so rapid-fire, and I developed – through theater too, I developed a really great work ethic. I think preparing for both of them is just that – you come to set ready to go, ready to play. You know your lines. You’re ready to work.

I do my work and do the best I can. I’m quite happy with my anonymity. All I can ever hope for is that I continue to do great work that will be remembered, and I leave my imprint so that my son can say proudly, ‘That’s my dad!’

I want my whole life to be a great work of art, not just my art. And that means paying attention to my entire life and trying to make sure my whole life is balanced.

It is my greatest joy to live a really good part, even though it imposes great strain. An artist is tired but proud when he has created a great work of art. So it is with the actor who really lives a great role and is proud of the part he played.

The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.

Theory did a great work pant, and everyone was doing denim. But no one was making a trouser sexy, or the focus of an outfit… So, that’s what I set out to do.

My parents had a great work ethic.

You work really hard on something, and you know you can’t always make great work. It just doesn’t happen like that, I don’t think, at least not for most people, anyways.

When I wrote ‘Noughts and Crosses’, I was halfway through it when I realised this was very like ‘Romeo and Juliet’… as long as you make it your own, and put your own spin on it, I think it’s brilliant to use other great work to find your own voice.

Reach Out WorldWide does great work. It’s a small organization that does great work, and I’m gonna make sure that keeps going on.

As a species, we are most animated when our days and nights on Earth are touched by the natural world. We can find immeasurable joy in the birth of a child, a great work of art, or falling in love.

I remember the great work that Norman Lear did. That was an incredible heyday to be a black actor.

A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.

For one, when has Jay-Z ever taken a knee to come out and tell us that we’re past kneeling? Yes, he’s done a lot of great work, a lot of great social justice work. But for you to get paid to go into an NFL press conference and say that we’re past kneeling? Again, asinine.

But James Gandolfini and Edie Falco, they did such great work, especially in the last show.

There’s a great work culture at Nadiadwala Grandson. It’s true that I’m heading the organization, but there are some brilliant minds here. All of them are working towards making our banner a good, entertaining company.

Writers who do great work must be coddled and encouraged.

Futurism today is led by science-fiction writers, by sociologists, by historians. Now, I have nothing against them. I’m sure they do great work. But they’re not scientists. They’re clueless.

I want to go wherever there’s great work. I’m a huge fan of film primarily. But you can get a great TV show and get attached to it. Making a great film is forever, though, so I always want to be part of film. It’s my first love.

I hate talking about class, but the truth is as an actor you’re only going to be doing some really great work if you can afford to be out of work and take the good stuff. If you can’t, you’re going to be treading quite a different path.

The biggest barrier we’ve seen to student progress is this: School policies and practices often prevent good teachers from doing great work and even dissuade some talented Americans from entering the profession. This needs to change.

Don’t focus on reaching the C-Suite. Focus on doing great work and serving your customers and community. That’s how you can find the right opportunities and get the skills and experience to get to the top in your career.

I really think that everybody would like to be an actor. Why wouldn’t they? It’s great work if you can get it. The one thing that prevents most people from saying, ‘I’m just gonna go to Hollywood!’ is that it seems unrealistic.

You pull anyone from an alien planet down to Earth, and you want to show them great work, show them Tywin Lannister on ‘Game of Thrones.’ I mean, it’s just as good as it gets.

I assumed that, if I put my head down and did great work, what I deserved would come to me. What you deserve will not come to you. It is only in advocating for yourself that you will receive what you deserve.

The mythology is that from chaos comes great work. I actually used to think that when I was younger, and I no longer think that anymore.

Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work. Few things will make you feel better than a job brilliantly done.

If someone comes and tells me I’ve done great work, that’s not what I want to hear. But if someone comes and tells me that this could have been a notch better, I’d spend an hour with the person and hear him or her out.

A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting – poof! – that they’re going to produce great work.

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

It’s not about my career now. It’s just about finding great work and having a good time.