Quotes of: Great-work Keyword

[The Edwardian era] was a time of booming trade, of great prosperity and wealth in which the pageant of London Society took place year after year in a setting of traditional dignity and beauty. The great houses—Devonshire, Dorchester, Grosvenor, St...

Winston Churchill: An Intimate Portrait

The great gain was that I very soon became able to understand a great deal without (even mentally) translating it; I was beginning to think in Greek. That is the great Rubicon to cross in learning any language. Those in whom only the Greek word lives...

Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

Poverty is a great educator. Having no boundaries and refusing to be ignored, it mostly teaches hopelessness. But not always. Politics is also a great educator. Mostly it teaches, I am afraid, cynicism. But not always. Television is a great educator ...

Neil Postman

Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve — hopelessly he writes in the hope that he might serve — not himself and not others, but that great cold elemental grace which knows us. A writer I very much admire is Don DeLillo. At an award...

Joy Williams

Existential envy which is directed against the other person’s very nature, is the strongest source of ressentiment. It is as if it whispers continually: “I can forgive everything, but not that you are— that you are what you are—that I am not ...

Max Scheler

Existential envy which is directed against the other person’s very nature, is the strongest source of ressentiment. It is as if it whispers continually: “I can forgive everything, but not that you are— that you are what you are—that I am not ...

Max Scheler

Gandalf: The world is not in your books and maps. It's out there. Bilbo Baggins: I can't just go running off into the blue! I am a Baggins of Bag End! Gandalf: You are also a Took. Did you know that your Great-Great-Great-Great Uncle Bullroarer Took ...

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Silence is a source of great strength.

Lao Tzu

There are times when one certain snow condition is great for one particular brand of skis.

Lindsey Vonn

The ages live in history through their anachronisms.

Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

Don't work harder, work happier.

Happy Hour is 9 to 5

Success is accomplishment of daily work.

Beautiful Quotes

The movie feels to me like a real work of lovely art.

Jeff Goldblum

All work is the avoidance of harder work.

Vectors: Aphorisms & Ten-Second Essays

The best thing about series TV is that everyone you work with is hand-picked, as compared to working on a film.

Denis Leary

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

Erin Heatherton

I mean, you work and you try and find the work that suits you the best and you enjoy the most.

Harvey Keitel

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

James A. Garfield

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

Jeremy Piven

I find I often do my best work when I'm not attached to the outcome of the audition.

Lorraine Toussaint

I think the best work flows out of a collaborative environment.

Steven Bochco