Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Quotes

I think about trying to make it better. That's all I do when we play 'Even Flow' or anything off of 'Ten': 'Let's do this the best we can.'

Perfecting your craft is one of the main keys in being successful.

You've got to perfect your craft.

That's kind of how I see my workmanship: it's how many hours I put in that makes me better.

There's mediocre jazz, mediocre salesmen, mediocre golfers. If you want to be good, you have to really hone your skills.

Excellence in one area is the beginning of excellence in every area.

You create a blueprint of your best performance, and you're happiest the night you surpass that blueprint. That won't happen that often, but it will happen. It's like sculpting: you keep refining. When you have a piece that is yours, that is just you, that becomes obsessive; you think about it all the time.

I don't believe in doing everything and being mediocre at all of them. I believe in being good at one thing.

I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

As people do a task, they improve at it.

Obviously, I haven't really progressed that much at my craft.

The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.

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.

Whatever I do, I always want to get better.

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

Everything is perfect and there is always room for improvement.

I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman.

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

Experience really does make you better, man.

Performance is something we all strive to be better at. I'm no different than that. Who wants to look bad?

You don't reinvent yourself; you get better with what you do.

You just want to hone your craft, whatever it may be.

Practice is the best of all instructors.

Everyone should be good at what they do.