Seymour Hersh Quotes

I have always believed in quality work.

The difference between and amateur and a professional.. a professional believes if a job is worth doing, it is worth doing well. An amateur believes if a job is worth doing, it very well may be worth doing badly.

There is no room in the world, as you say, for second rate work.

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.

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

Just because 'Planes' is an animated movie doesn't mean I don't take my work seriously. You can always push yourself to be better.

I take pride in my craft, and I work extremely hard.

Whatever I do, whether it's cooking shows, books or events, the details count and that's what sets me apart from other food TV personalities. If you take out the details what's left?

Neil and I share a desire for great quality in our work. If we are offered projects, look at projects, or consider projects that don't have that quality, then we don't do them.

Whatever you do big or small, do it well or don't do it at all.

Care and Quality are internal and external aspects of the same thing. A person who sees Quality and feels it as he works is a person who cares. A person who cares about what he sees and does is a person who’s bound to have some characteristic of quality.

For it is fixed principle with me, that whatever is done should be done well.

The way you get a better world is, you don't put up with substandard anything.

I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right. I’m not ambitious about my career, but I am ambitious with each job. I can be fairly annoying to work with. No compromises, let’s put it this way. Compromises are from hell.

Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.

I give 150%. I'm a professional, a pro.

Good is not good when better is expected.

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

I can be very difficult if people are not professional, or lazy - or the opposite, which is take themselves too seriously.

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

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

I take my work seriously.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that's all I'm ever trying to do.