Viking Proverb Quotes

Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work.

If you're going to do a thing, do it fully so that no writing you give the world misrepresents you - so that nothing you put out there is like a sad regift you couldn't throw away and had to find a place for.

You have to take a certain pride in your work.

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

Never neglect the little things. Never skimp on that extra effort, that additional few minutes, that soft word of praise or thanks, that delivery of the very best that you can do. It does not matter what others think, it is of prime importance, however, what you think about you. You can never do your best, which should always be your trademark, if you are cutting corners and shirking responsibilities. You are special. Act it. Never neglect the little things.

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.

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

I don't care how small the parts are, as long as they're good.

There is no job a man can do that is undignified - if he does it well.

It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job othe than at one's best ability.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.

If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

Quality. That's the key. Everything I do, I want it to have that stamp that people like Jay Z, for instance, have on all the things they touch.

I have always believed in quality work.

I take pride in my craft, and I work extremely hard.

I don't like doing substandard work... I can't sleep at night if I make a bad song.

I believe if you are sincere with your work and you are good at it, then your identity will be created by default.

I have a conscience about my work and try to turn out a good piece of craftsmanship.

My approach has always been to make things we were proud of.

Japanese people can feel some attachment in what they are making, whether it is a car or a TV or a computer.

A foreman, if he's got a conscience, and delights in his work, will do his business as well as if he was a partner. I wouldn't give a penny for a man as 'ud drive a nail in slack because he didn't get extra pay for it.

Most think that they are above being supported by the town; but it oftener happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means, which would be more disreputable.