G Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with G. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Good work instead of long prayers.”
“Good work is always done in defiance of management.”
“Good work is done with dignity, and there is no dignity in rushing.”
Source: In Limbo
“Good work is good work wherever it is.”
“Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials”
“Good work is no done by "humble" men. It is one of the first duties of a professor, for example, in any subject, to exaggerate a little both the importance of his subject and his own importance in it. A man who is always asking "Is what I do worth while?" and "Am I the right person to do it?" will always be ineffective himself and a discouragement to others. He must shut his eyes a little and think a little more of his subject and himself than they deserve. This is not too difficult: it is harder not to make his subject and himself ridiculous by shutting his eyes too tightly.”
“Good work is not done by 'humble' men”
Source: A Mathematician's Apology
“Good work is the only thing that would make me feel jealous or envious.”
“Good work, like good talk or any other form of worthwhile human relationship, depends upon being able to assume an extended shared world.”
“Good workemen are seldome rich.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Good workmen are seldom rich.”
Source: Works: In Prose & Verse
“Good works are continually being undone by the tons of hatred and anger which are being poured out on the world.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Good works are indispensable to salvation - not as its ground or means, however, but as its consequence and evidence.”
Source: The Message of Ephesians
“Good works are links that form a chain of love" Mother Theresa”
“Good works are often spoiled by moving too quickly. . . . The good which God desires is accomplished almost by itself, without our even thinking of it.”
Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653
“Good works are the seals and proofs of faith; for even as a letter must have a seal to strengthen the same, even so faith must have good works.”
Source: The familiar discourses of dr. Martin Luther, tr. by H. Bell
“Good works, because they must be forgotten instantly, can never become part of the world; they come and go,leaving no trace. They truly are not of this world.”
Source: The Human Condition
“Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works.”
Source: Works of Martin Luther: With Introductions and Notes
“Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.”
Source: Killosophy
“Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit.”
Source: Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen
“Good writers always have a strong sense of who they are and who they are not. Like actors, their boundaries are strong, and fluid. They have a deep understanding of the human condition, and an empathy that is not so diffuse that it is diluted.”
“Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.”
Source: None but a blockhead: on being a writer
“Good writers are like magpies, attracted to shiny things and storing away treasures -
pieces of dialogue and experience - which pop up from memory unexpectedly.”
Source: Snowfed Waters
“Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.”
“Good writers are of necessity rare.”
Source: The Principles of Success in Literature
“Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.”
“Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. It doesn't matter whether the good writer wants to be useful, or whether the good writer wants to be harm.”
Source: ABC of Reading
“Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.”
Source: Confucius to Cummings: An Anthology of Poetry
“Good writers are visible just behind their words.”
Source: On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
“Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.”
Source: The West Wing: Seasons 3 & 4 : the Shooting Scripts
“Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.”
Source: Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee
“Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.”
Source: Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee
“Good writers don’t moralize, nor do they preach, but they do create longing for the true and the beautiful, and that is why you must write with Christ at the center of your reason for writing. That does not mean that every book must be a retelling of Luke’s gospel, however, every worthy book written by a Christian will direct readers away from self, and sin, and put them on a quest for God and his gospel. Create longing for these things.”
“Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesn’t make you good. Writing badly does.”
“Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.”
“Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.”
“Good writers touch life often.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
“Good writin' ain't necessarily good readin'.”
“Good writing , like gold , combines lustrous lucidity with high density. What this means is good writing is packed with hints.”
“Good writing ... involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear.”
“Good writing and dark wit always excite me and they come together thrillingly in this book. It has a quiet grip on the strangeness of the interior and exterior worlds of love and politics. I delighted in the writing and the scope.”
“Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence is always beautiful at such times.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Good writing comes from good talent.”
Source: Philosophical diary
“Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head.”
“Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.”
“Good writing happens when human beings follow particular steps to take control of their sentences-to make their words do what they want them to do.”
“Good writing has an aliveness that keeps the reader reading from one paragraph to the next, and it's not a question of gimmicks to "personalize" the author.”
Source: On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
“Good writing has vitality!”
“Good writing ideas don’t have to be about political turmoil, mass killings, capitalism, racism, injustice, and so on. Find that one idea that has deep roots in your heart.”
Source: On Writing Wonderfully: The Craft of Creative Fiction Writing
“Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.”
Source: The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson