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“Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.” ~ J. Paul Getty
- “Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. ‘Get up early, work late – and strike oil.'” ~ Joey Adams
- “I don’t want to be an artist that gets stuck doing one thing. I don’t want to be an artist who people look back at and say, ‘His early work was really great.” ~ Ryan McGinley
- “You think you’re developing and getting better and then you see something you did years ago. Looking at your early work.. sometimes it has a depth that surprises you.” ~ Andrew Wyeth
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“Although not of the quality of my later work, I feel there is some quality to it [my early work] in an art sense, and probably some additional quality in a biographical sense.” ~ E. J. Hughes
- “I suppose some people find their voice later than others, but it’s interesting to look back at really early work to see that there’s some kernel or a Rosetta Stone, in a way.” ~ Joe Bradley
- “The world that seemed so various and new, well, it does contract. One’s burning desire to investigate human behavior, and to make, or imply, statements about it, does fall off. And so one does find that early works are full of energy and also full of vulgarity, crudity, and incompetence, and later works are more carefully finished, and in that sense better literary products. But . . . there’s often a freshness that is missing in later works–for every gain there’s a loss. I think it evens out in that way.” ~ Kingsley Amis
- “Then I realized my early work did have something special that audiences adored apart from what I humbly thought about them. They occupy a distinguished niche in Italian film history and probably always will.” ~ Dario Argento
- “They [the critics] deal with Schoenberg’s early works and all their wealth by classifying them, with the music-historical cliché, as late romantic post-Wagnerian. One might just as well dispose of Beethoven as a late-classicist post-Haydnerian.” ~ Theodor Adorno
- “As I look over my work, I mean every time I look over my early work, I see, yes, I could do that then and then I could do that and that… That may be the hardest thing for a writer, at least for a poet, to tell what the identity of his work is.” ~ Kenneth Koch
- “People wanted to get me published, and my early work was so weird that they weren’t getting anywhere. I thought, okay, I’ll do something that’s just a tad more normal.” ~ Nell Zink
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“My early work is politically anarchist fiction, in that I was an anarchist for a long period of time. I’m not an anarchist any longer, because I’ve concluded that anarchism is an
impractical ideal. Nowadays, I regard myself as a libertarian.” ~ Robert Anton Wilson
- “Whatever I’ve experienced in my life is a part of my story, and I’m proud of that. But it’s someone who wakes up early, works all day, believes in charitable work, business-minded, diligent, accountable, problem-solving… I’m so much about school, consistency and tradition.” ~ Drew Barrymore
- “I think everything I do is my early work. I can’t wait to get on to the later stuff.” ~ Joseph Fiennes
- “My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.” ~ Douglass North
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“If you get up early, work late, and pay your taxes, you will get ahead — if you strike oil.” ~ J. Paul Getty
- “I actually never knew Peter Green but I do respect his early work very much.” ~ Ken Hensley
- “Bob Dylan may be the Charlie Chaplin of rock n’ roll. Both men are regarded as geniuses by their entire audience. Both were proclaimed revolutionaries for their early work and subjected to exhaustive attack when later works were thought to be inferior. Both developed their art without so much as a nodding glance toward their peers.” ~ Jon Landau
- “Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.” ~ Thomas J. Watson
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“I don’t go back and look at my early work, because the last time I did, many years ago, it left me cringing. If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.” ~ Lorrie Moore
- “The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.” ~ John D. Rockefeller
- “I love Bob Dylan, I really do. I love his early work, I love the first time he plugged in electrically, I love his Christian albums, I love his other albums.” ~ Johnny Cash
- “With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impulses, as many women have done. And thats definitely changed.” ~ Judy Chicago
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“Documentation is misleading, because the performance is dead. So the very early works were not documented at all.” ~ Marina Abramovic
- “There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it’s certainly present in the early work.” ~ Chaim Potok
- “My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It’s early work, derivative work.” ~ Mary Oliver
- “In my early work, I tried to hide my personality, my psychological state, my emotions. This was partly due to my feelings about myself and partly due to my feelings about painting at the time. I sort of stuck to my guns for a while but eventually it seemed like a losing battle. Finally one must simply drop the reserve.” ~ Jasper Johns
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“An artist’s early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict” ~ Bridget Riley
- “There are some very similar moments in the early work where the focus was on drawing, abstraction and fragmentation. Then it moved to the development of ideas. Lately it has become what architecture should be, which is more fluid organization. There has not been so much ‘a change’ but ‘a development’.” ~ Zaha Hadid
- “In my early work I didn’t use much colour. I had no confidence about how I could do this.” ~ Michael Craig-Martin
- “I can look at my early work and see what a pained struggle it was to draw what I was drawing. I was trying so hard to get this specific look that was in my head, and always falling short.” ~ Daniel Clowes
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