Great Work Quotes

If you do the bare minimum, expect bare minimum results. You want to be great, work to be great. Nothing just happens

To create great work, here's how you must spend your time: 1% Inspiration 9% Perspiration 90% Justification

No great work of art is ever finished.

There is no place for little minds in a great work

It is better to begin a great work than to finish a small one.

Regardless of your ethnicity or anything, if you do great work, people will notice and you'll get hired.

Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.

My friends, if we are going to do a great work for God, we must spend much time in prayer; we have got to be closeted with God.

All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.

Families mean work,but they are our great work,and we are not afraid of work.

We are here to do a great work because the mind that created us knew what it wanted us to do when it created us.

When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.

All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.

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

All great artists and thinkers are great workers.

Any woman or man who would write the truth of their lives would write a great work. But no one has dared to write the truth of their lives.

No man ever did or can do a great work alone.

If all the people around you are happy with you, you are not doing great work. Progress is disruption and change.

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

I would have to say that I’m haunted. I’m haunted by everything that drives me. I want to do great work. I need to do great work. I won’t be satisfied unless I do great work.

You don't fully understand the meaning of a work until the audience responds to it. Because the audience completes the circle, and adds a whole other shade of meaning. Whenever you view something, and this is why great works of art survive decades and centuries, is because there's a door within the work that allows the audience to walk through and complete the meaning of the work. An audience isn't passive, nor are they unintelligent.

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.

As you've probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.

Ultimately, if you are doing great work, the money will come.

If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost.