John Ruskin Quotes

I want to just do my job and do it well.

If a person sweeps streets for a living, he should sweep them as Michelangelo painted, as Beethoven composed, as Shakespear wrote.

When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.

Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)

Life is too short to do mediocre work and it is definitely too short to build shitty things.

Every man is proud of what he does well; and no man is proud of what he does not do well. With the former, his heart is in his work; and he will do twice as much of it with less fatigue. The latter performs a little imperfectly, looks at it in disgust, turns from it, and imagines himself exceedingly tired. The little he has done, comes to nothing, for want of finishing.

First, do it. Second, do it well. Third, do it well and fast — that means you're a professional.

When you think something is cool already, it's okay to put in an honest day's work.

Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. Frigidaires are perfect. Beauty limps. My frigidaire has had to be replaced.

There's one way to do showbiz, if you want to do it perfectly, you have to be disciplined and you have to be ready to work really hard.

It grieves us to produce work that is not perfect.

Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody.

The pleasure of working with somebody who's an actor is they don't waste time with stuff that doesn't matter.

Industriousness and conscientiousness are often at odds, because industriousness wants to pick the still sour fruit from the tree,while conscientiousness lets it hang there too long, until it falls and bruises.

I think Donald Trump is a preeminent multitasker, can handle multiple things at one time, and when he's committed to doing something, nothing stops him or gets in his way.

Laziness is the one common deficiency in mankind that blocks the establishment of a perfect world in which everyone leads a happy life.

Not harder than it should be, no. We're about the business, we're about the work. It's all about the work, always. We have fun and laugh and there're days that are more intense than others, but we're there to make it better. He's always going to try and make it better, I'm always going to try and make it better. So you accept anything, you accept whatever it takes to get it up on the screen and make it worthy.

There is always a best way of doing everything.

To become successful and outstanding at something, we don't have to come up with something new; we need only find ways of doing it better.

You get the job done or you don't.

Good enough is good enough. Perfect will make you a big fat mess every time.

If you're a perfectionist and you know you're about to do something at which you cannot be perfect, then that is daunting because you know what your heart is like and the way you approach your work.

I took two important phone calls while in the shower today because I'm a goddam professional.

Effective people do two things: they strive to do excellent work, and they prioritize.

Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.