Best Work Quotes

I want to be the best, and the best work. You have to earn what you get, and you have to work to keep it.

How do you make people do the best work? You make them feel comfortable, so you can feel comfortable - and then you can have a really good ballgame!

All I am hoping for is to be able to work-I think my best work is still ahead of me-I think all that I have been through in the last several years have only made me a better, more interesting actor.

It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.

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 done their best work by far with me.

The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.

I don't think competition is good in music. What is good, is the desire and the ambition to create your best work.

It turns out that the people who like their jobs the most are also the ones who are doing the best work, making the greatest impact, and changing the most.

I think I grew up, stopped worrying about what people thought of me, and whether things were going to turn out OK. I'm concentrating on doing the best work I can do and letting it go at that.

A photographer's best work is, alas, generally done for himself.

Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had bad timing.

Very often out of adversity that's when the best work comes.

Whenever I produce my best work, it's always because I've spent time being idle. Something always emerges after nothing.

If you work hard and you do your best, you can do anything.

Our best work can't possibly appeal to the average masses, only our average work can. Finding the humility to happily walk away from those that don't get it unlocks our ability to do great work.

I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people.

I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium.

All of the artists that I've worked with have an incredible work ethic. And Madonna has the best work ethic of them all. I've learned a lot from being around her.

U2's best work has always been when we didn't know what we're doing.

It's easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.

Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities.

I apologize if there's a Parkinson's painter in the audience. I assume you do your best work in the morning. Probably gets abstract by noon.

A chance to collaborate with one of my favorite bands in a completely open and supportive creative environment... some our best 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.

The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another.

I don't work this hard just to be the best player. I do it to win.

I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.

I feel that my job is to create an atmosphere where creative people can do their best work.

I consider myself really lucky and I always have done. My approach is that if I know I'm relaxed and happy, then I will do my best work.

Whenever I'm asked to identify my best work, or my favorite, my answer has always been the same - 'My next one!'

A lot of the best work I've ever done started out as something completely different because I gave myself permission to have space around my time and expectations.

When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man.

Always keep your best work.

My best work is always done... when I'm experimenting. If I stop experimenting I feel it just becomes a drudgery.

All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy.

Success brings poise, especially avoirdupois. Success comes before work only in the dictionary.

I feel like, as a filmmaker, I'm at my strongest when I write the script and when it comes from me, out of whole cloth. My best work has always been self-generated.

Modern man was not meant to do his best work before forty but is by nature, and is becoming more so, an afternoon and evening worker.

Some of my best work is done when I'm half asleep.

Stop at nothing to get the best work that you can get. Betray, violate, cause enormous harm.

If you are working with people with whom you do NOT do your best work, you are out of integrity.

Your best work always seems to have been done by someone else.

Many an author will speak of writing, in his best work, more than he actually knows.

My dad said to me, 'Work hard and be patient.' It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in.

You can go out and try to do the best work that you can do within the context of what that is, but it's really gotta be about the work and what you're focusing on.

You can't please everybody. All you can do is really just try to work from the heart and do the best job that you can and hope for the best.

It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things.

Do not imagine that you have to know everything before you can do anything. My own best work was done when I was most ignorant.

I do my best work when I feel conviction to say something through the character I play. Always I want to have integrity and not compromise that.

Fear does its best work in isolation. Courage wears the face of your ability to love and be loved. Breakthrough happens when you discover your self-worth had nothing to do with what you looked like.