Catherine Hardwicke Quotes

I wouldn't say that I'm particularly bothered or obsessed with detail.

Not many people are really that meticulous with what they do, I suppose, but I'm just a control freak and terribly afraid of failure or regret. I work very hard on these things.

I do want people to have a sense of just the extreme level of meticulousness and care that goes into everything. I wouldn't expect anybody to catch all the details of what I'm doing. The level of obsession is so extreme.

Whatever I was going into, whether it was going to be chorus or history or astronomy or whatever, do it right. Be a professional. Don't just do a half baked job. Do everything correctly. Get down. Learn the details of what you're going to do.

Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.

I am someone who places great value on the detail. That was always the case, even in my days as a racing driver.

I believe in focusing on details.

I do as much as I can. I even drive through the chase scenes several times to make sure the details are right.

I always watch the work I do.

A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.

I just think if you're going to do something, do it properly.

Someone will say, 'Well, that's good enough.' As soon as I hear 'Good enough,' it really bothers me. I spend as much time as I think I can on anything I do. I try to do that with the people that work with me. I try to get the best out of them.

My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive.

Beware of the person who can't be bothered by details.

It is about attention to detail and then the minutest detail on top of that. I am an owner, and yet I'll argue about the sign on the wall.

Only by being obsessed with little things do amazing things emerge.

They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.

If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing twice.

Sometimes minor details can have a huge impact. If you don't devote 100 percent of your efforts to every detail, you immediately run into difficulties.

I like it when people are driven. I love that in any field of work, in architecture or whatever. Like Lorne Michaels - he pays attention to every detail.

Diligence which, as it avails in all things, is also of the utmost moment in pleading causes. Diligence is to be particularly cultivated by us; it is to be constantly exerted; it is capable of effecting almost everything.

Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.

When it comes to making an album I take that very seriously. I am meticulous, overworked. That's my time to put everything under the microscope.

Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction - a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the muse.

I don't think people understand how much hard work innovation is. That it's not just getting an idea. You really have to cross your T's and dot your I's long before you ever start on the project. I don't think people perceive that about me. I work hard.