Best Work Quotes

Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.

The best work that I am able to do is when I am willing to write about questions I haven't quite figured out, or things I'm really wrestling with, things that keep me up at night.

When creative people do their best work, they're hardly ever in charge, they're just sort of rolling along with their eyes shut yelling wheee.

I've gotten jobs because I'm a woman, and I've lost jobs because I'm a woman. So just do the best work you can. It won't go unnoticed.

I'm just looking to be in the best movies possible and do the best work possible and try to become a better actor and make better movies.

Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point.

I want to go out there and do the best work I can.

I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and has nothing to do with my life.

We should always be learning or we will cease to be able to change or adapt. I think the best work on leadership today is by Ronald Heifetz. His work is focused on adaptive leadership.

I have a philosophy, a belief, which I can see in many, many other directors that your early work is your best work, because you don't know what you're doing.

I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great men - with Olivier Assayas, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette. I am tutored by them.

I find that the creative side of my brain and the archival side of my brain don't work well together. When I've done my best work, I've been in a trance-like state.

I think I really produce my best work in Iran.

... every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.

Some of the greatest artists did their best work when they got political.

When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.

I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.

I try to cast really good actors and give them a chance to do their very best work, give them as much time and space as they need.

I've been gone for a long time. I really want to give the fans something that they deserve to have. So, I'm working really hard on this. I really want to make it the best work I've done so far.

We get a better book when everyone's allowed to do their best work on it. I don't want to prevent anybody from bringing their ideas to a project.

I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work.

The Capitol is the best work I have ever done, or shall ever do, and I am glad to have Given it to St. Paul.

I think Gram did his best work in co-writes. Sometimes when you're working with one other person, it's such a magical thing. You're editing each other and you're trying to create that one spark.

There's a lot of young guys coming along, but I'd like to say to the various financiers, don't forget the senior guys. The senior guys and gals are there, willing to do their best work for you.

What I try to do is give each actor an environment in which they can do their best work.

I’ve discovered that my best work comes from the uncomfortable but fruitful feeling of not having a clue – of being worried, secretly afraid, even convinced that I’m on the wrong track.

The best work flows from us effortlessly. Allow the gifts of spirit to come to you.

Hope for the best and work for it.

As an actor, you go through life thinking "This stop is the last stop," so you just put your heart and soul into everything and do your best work.

It's really inspiring to know that your publisher is so behind you. It makes you want to put forth your best work.

My gift, if I have one, is choosing terrific talent and providing the atmosphere for them to do their best work.

When you're managing an emergency department, you're trying to keep everybody calm, so when an emergency comes in the door, everyone can do their best work.

A photographer is responsible for creating a climate in which they can do their best work.

My advice to women directors is just to make the best work possible.

I came to America so that I could work with the best and be the best.

If the reader enters a kind of immersive experience reading a book, then I have to enter a kind of immersive state to do my best work.

If you can create an environment where people are invited to do their best work and the best ideas always win, then the project itself will win.

The stage is my love, it's where I started and where I do my best work.

I completely believe that I will produce my best work and my best work will come in my thirties.

Some of the best work done to combat the Republicans has been wit and humor.

You do your best work when you feel safe.

Theatre is where my heart is. It's where I can do my best work. And even if I do films and TV, that's what I want to come back to.

I feel like my best work is in front of me. I'm in the studio now, and I'm having an amazing time making this new album. It's something I can't help.

I feel like I haven't done my best work yet.

It feels to me like everyone is going to do their best work when they feel emotionally safe.

The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can.

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.

The best work we can all do is create the highest vision possible for our lives and be led by that vision to the greatest good.

The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.

'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.