Tim Allen Quotes

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

I'll kind of tend to beat myself up because I just want it to sound better than better.

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

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

To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.

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

I have an obsession for quality.

It's all about perfection, isn't 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.

In rowing, you're always striving for that perfect stroke, that repetition, each one being as good as the last. Same thing with cooking. You can't say, 'Oh, I don't feel well, so I'm going to put out a crappy plate.'

If I'm going to make something in the kitchen, even if it's something as simple as a sandwich, I will take the extra time to make it a great sandwich instead of just an average sandwich. I don't mind investing a little extra work to make something special.

You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours - as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect.

I like the whole package to be good, It's a rarity that that happens, so I end up not working a lot.

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.

Build to a standard, not a price.

Be not a shoemaker nor yet a shaft maker save for thyself alone: let the shoe be misshapen, or crooked the shaft, and a curse on thy head will be called.

One gets a bit picky after having the success of something like 'FlashForward!'

I never choose a genre over quality. I never think, 'I want to do that,' and sacrifice the fact it might not be very good.

I always want to make sure the book I'm writing is the best book I can deliver.

Whatever I'm doing, I try and keep the quality very high.

I am a perfectionist, and my immense respect for my fans and the public meant that the quality of my clothing had to match my performance.

I don't want to release a CD; I want to release the real deal, so we're just gonna take our time.

With my own stuff, I've always held to the belief that it should take as long as it takes until it feels right.