James Jebbia Quotes

If you're going to do a thing, do it fully so that no writing you give the world misrepresents you - so that nothing you put out there is like a sad regift you couldn't throw away and had to find a place for.

If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it well. That's just my character, that's just the way it is with me.

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

You have to take a certain pride in your 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 find mediocrity hard. I find that whole area difficult. I'm a very passionate person; I care very much about what I do. I believe I give it a lot, so it's gotta be good; otherwise, what's the point?

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

If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.

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

Doing something the right way is something I take pride in.

When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.

We should learn to take genuine pride in a job well done and not expect praise for one simply carried out.

I have very high standards for every part of life - my work, my relationships, food, love. I can't just pretend.

I just want to continue to produce good work. I don't want to do junk.

I have always believed in quality work.

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

I used to take a lot of pride into what went into practice.

If doing something with second-rate effort satisfies you, find something else to do - where only your best effort will satisfy you personally.

I'm a true professional. I don't play no acting games, and I take pride in my work and being a professional.

I've always just focused on the work, and I've just tried to be honest with the work. If the work speaks to people, fantastic.

I have an obsession for quality.

I never compromise with my work.

It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.

I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right.

The kind of young woman who can be a terrific torchbearer has high standards all the time, not just in her prom dress, but every, ordinary day.