Quotes About Excellence

TALENT and WORK ETHIC, the most important and RARE combination.

I think I grew up, stopped worrying about what people thought of me, and whether things were going to turn out OK. I'm concentrating on doing the best work I can do and letting it go at that.

Perfect is the enemy of good.

If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.

I always have the fear that, if I don't commit 100 percent to my work, then it's gonna suffer.

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.

When I work, I work. I don't think about anything else. I just wanna get the work done. And I'm a perfectionist.

I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people.

I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium.

Work hard and meticulously. When in trouble, look closely at a text that is a good example of what you're trying to do. And be patient.

I only want to do better work. That's the focus of my life.

Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and this is its whole secret.

My belief of book writing is much the same as my belief as to shoemaking. The man who will work the hardest at it, and will work with the most honest purpose, will work the best.

The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.

I always try to work with people who are better than me, so I can learn more.

I want to work with great filmmakers and great actors and get better as an actor.

In my heart of hearts, I know that whatever I do is going to have integrity, and I'm going to work really hard, and I know that fans are going to take to it.

Don't be afraid to discard work you know isn't up to standard. Don't save junk, just because it took you a long time to write it.

The people who do better and better work are people who are never satisfied. Cezanne would say, 'I think I've accomplished something,' but then he would immediately add, 'But it's not enough.

Raising the standard of the work, not complaining about somebody not voting.

Wayne is my favorite person to work with though, because ooohh, oohh, Lil Wayne is just too good, he's just too good.

Man is happy only as he finds work worth doing - and does it well

I will not do work that isn't done well or right. Stuff happens - things break, contractors don't come through - but I don't want to be responsible for not doing something correctly.

But no work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate.