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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

— Samuel Butler

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.

— George C. Marshall

My work is not great, but it's respectable. I have no false illusions.

— Maurice Sendak

I hope that when you see my work, you are looking at yourself looking.

— James Turrell

Make your work deeper and better than those before you, and eventually someone will notice. If you don't think the work is better than what you've seen, then go back until it is.

— Aaron Huey

I think there's a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.

— Ben Horowitz

I feel that my work is not in vain, that it does have a place in society, even though it may not be considered that it has a place in society - it doesn't matter.

— Yoko Ono

My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it.

— Zhu Rongji

My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.

— Sam Abell

✗Opposing Perspectives

You can never really judge your work because once it's done, it's done.

— Charlotte Rampling

I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.

— Alexander McQueen