Eli Whitney Quotes

What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.

Craft is everything.

Even the details of a rifle, which are nothing but mechanical, if they are made carefully, with attention, become beautiful, satisfying.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.

I don't care if you're doing haute cuisine or burgers and pizza, just do it right.

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

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

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.

In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.

The beauty of a finely worked object points to the beauty of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the craftsmanship points to the beauty of the name which was the source of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the name of the craftsman's art points to the beauty of the craftsman's attributes manifested in that art.

A pattern is a guide or a model. Patterns are used in sewing and knitting, in wood and metalworking, and in a wide variety of other productive pursuits, activities, and jobs. Patterns help to avoid waste and unwanted deviations and facilitate uniformity that is appropriate and beneficial.

Quality is pride of workmanship.

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

Writing is the easy part. The 'getting it right' part is harder.

Shoe design is like architecture - with the finest structure and tight, precise seams, it suits my obsessive neatness.

I doubt Picasso ever painted a picture in an hour, he took his time, looked at every detail and made sure it was perfect.

Done right, precision can help clarify, plus it's fun.

I think my love of form is especially informed by my background, whether this is creating a wonderful silhouette in a dress or finding the perfect shape for a bowl or the 'just so' angle of a table leg.

Precision matters, breh.

I got a few things, because I think the props are so beautiful as much as anything else. The detail of the work is something that one has no idea of.

Where is the stretch? Where is the perfect fit? Where does it make sense? You have to be a Baryshnikov.