John Updike Quotes

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

Whatever I do, I always want to give my best.

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

I always try to write the best I can.

The important thing is to do good work, no matter what medium you do it in.

Craft is everything.

To give the best I can, sometimes you will be brilliant or not.

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

If you're going to do a job, do it right. If you're going to throw a birthday party, make it amazing. If you're going to do anything, do it awesome.

My thing is to play as well as I can possibly can.

I work really hard on my craft.

Any job worth doing is worth doing well. But to be able to do that, you have to do it over and over again.

Art is a by-product of an honest and successful attempt to do something well.

Your preoccupation should be on doing what you do as well as you can.

Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.

Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.

All I gotta do is my job, do what it is that I bring to the table - that fire - and put the thump on these songs, and everything's gonna work from there.

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

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.

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

I've only had two rules: Do all you can and do it the best you can. It's the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something.

If I play, I try to concentrate on producing my best.

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.

You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to.

I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.