Akshaye Khanna Quotes

I don't want to record anything unless it can be great and genuinely interesting.

When I create something, it's got to be special, and it can't just be to throw something out there because I feel like I'm Missy.

If doing something with second-rate effort satisfies you, find something else to do - where only your best effort will satisfy you personally.

I would rather spend my entire life doing nothing than have my name attached to something mediocre.

In art the best is good enough.

I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.

After 'A Love Extreme,' I thought I must do something that stands up to that - at least. I can't top it. You should never attempt to top something that is magical, because that's just bad magic.

Whatever I do, I just want it to be good.

I don't play to be mediocre.

I always want people to realise that whatever I do is a quality product. And that's what's really important to me.

I really care about what I put out, and probably more than the fans care. At times, I think I over-care. But I just know that the body of work has such a high standard that it's kind of like, in my own head, I need to at least match it if not get over that, so that's the challenge.

I hold very high expectations of myself and my work ethic.

In art, 'good enough' is not good enough.

The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.

There is no room in the world, as you say, for second rate work.

Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.

I think that anything that leads to creativity and good work is good.

Everything I put my name to and take part in, I want to be good. That's not saying it will always happen. But I want to make bold choices.

If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.

There will be no new music until it's good enough and until I'm ready.

The only thing Steve Jobs has ever asked me in all the years we've been together and have been partners, the only thing he has ever asked me is: 'Make it great.'

I don't like doing most things unless I can do them quite well.

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.

I'm a bit of a perfectionist, and I want to give 100 percent to everything.

If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it well. That's just my character, that's just the way it is with me.