Claudia Schiffer Quotes

I will not do work that isn't done well or right. Stuff happens - things break, contractors don't come through - but I don't want to be responsible for not doing something correctly.

Commit yourself to quality from day one... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.

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

It's all about perfection, isn't it?

You don't do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.

You have to be a professional in every single thing you do.

It's impossible to have zero defects.

Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.

It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.

We can't simply blame the engineers when things go wrong because, no matter how well they plan, things don't always go according to plan.

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.

I wanted nothing else than to make the object as perfect as possible.

I won't do anything unless it's the absolute best.

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

I'm somewhat of a perfectionist, I think, and I strive for perfection.

I'm going to have to be impressed and feel confident in the people I'm handing a book to - or I'm not going to do it. Once you hand it to them, you're out. You have no control over it.

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

Good enough never is.

All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.

That's all I cared about too, was getting it right.

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

I'm a control freak. If you're going to slap my name on something, I would like to control it.

If I feel that I'm not able to do my best work - whether that's my own fault or as a result of an editorial situation - then I need to stop doing it. I would rather not do something than do it badly or ineffectively. It's the only way I can live with myself and do right by the fans in the long haul.

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