Ray J Quotes

Anything worth doing is worth doing twice, the first time quick and dirty and the second time the best way you can.

I believe when you rush your work, you're not thinking about what you're doing. That's when you make mistakes.

If you want to make a great wine that can stand the test of time, then you must put the time and the work into it.

Everything stinks till it’s finished.

It takes time to create excellence. If it could be done quickly, more people would do it.

You can't rush an art form.

Haste is of the Devil.

In the beginning I pushed toward perfection, but it takes time to get to certain places.

Things have a way of being richer in the end, a product better made, for the circuitous route we take to include all the elements that are necessary for a job well done.

Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?

I'm not going to rush anything and scamper around like a mad person and make myself crazy.

He who decides in haste repents in haste.

All good things arrive unto them that wait – and don’t die in the meantime

The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence.

The quickest way may not necessarily be the best.

I couldn't do everything in the first or second day; it took me years to be able to get to the achievement that I've had. I wasn't perfect from the beginning.

Having patience is one of the hardest things about being human. We want to do it now, and we don't want to wait. Sometimes we miss out on our blessing when we rush things and do it on our own time.

If you don't get it right, what's the point?

Some wonderful things have taken 10 years to make.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

It's okay if it takes two or three years for something really good to come along, but I don't want to wait ten years for something great to come along.

You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.

Anything that works well or has long-term success is never done quickly.

Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly.