George Washington Carver Quotes

The secret of success is to do a common thing uncommonly well.

The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.

If you do every job like you're going to do it for the rest of your life, that's when you get noticed.

To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.

Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work.

The way I did it, every job was A+.

Whatever I was going into, whether it was going to be chorus or history or astronomy or whatever, do it right. Be a professional. Don't just do a half baked job. Do everything correctly. Get down. Learn the details of what you're going to do.

Everything I played, I kind of found a way to be pretty good at. My mom always said, 'If you're not good at something, then don't do it.'

Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction - a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the muse.

Be undeniably good. When people ask me how do you make it in show business or whatever, what I always tell them & nobody ever takes note of it 'cause it's not the answer they wanted to hear-what they want to hear is here's how you get an agent, here's how you write a script, here's how you do this-but I always say, “Be so good they can't ignore you.” If somebody's thinking, “How can I be really good?” people are going to come to you. It's much easier doing it that way than going to cocktail parties.

I'm a designer, I love it, and I haven't worked this hard to do bad work.

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

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

Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.

My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.'

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

Someone will say, 'Well, that's good enough.' As soon as I hear 'Good enough,' it really bothers me. I spend as much time as I think I can on anything I do. I try to do that with the people that work with me. I try to get the best out of them.

I've always been one to do the work and just hone my craft.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

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

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

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

I have always believed in quality work.