Michael Stipe Quotes

I have to be where the best work can be done.

And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.

It's important to always do your best work, no matter what the film is.

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

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

I'm doing my best whether it's for a hundred-copy print run or for a hundred thousand.

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

You just go in and try to do the best job you can everyday.

You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.

We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.

There's only one shot you have at a movie, and that's your best shot. If you can't give it that, don't go. They're paying you! You gotta do a job for them.

I take it extremely seriously to do absolutely the best work possible and the truest work possible, because I feel like that is what's going to resonate not only for myself but hopefully for an audience.

I feel responsible that everyone has a really wonderful experience and to do the best work possible, and to always know my lines and to always be on time and to bring a level to the show in terms of quality that other people will follow.

Do everything to the best of your ability.

I always try to write the best I can.

I've had to work hard all my life, and I will never, ever ask a fan or reader to pay for something I've rushed. It's not fair to them, and I will never give them anything except my absolute best.

I figured if you're going to do something, you should do it the best you can.

Make your work deeper and better than those before you, and eventually someone will notice. If you don't think the work is better than what you've seen, then go back until it is.

If you do anything for 40 years, you can do it comfortably. And it will always be good. But unless you're willing to risk it being bad, it can never be great.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

I've been gone for a long time. I really want to give the fans something that they deserve to have. So, I'm working really hard on this. I really want to make it the best work I've done so far.

No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.

It's been the work that has carried me and I never wanted to rest on my laurels or go back and do what I done before.