L'Wren Scott Quotes

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

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?

I figured if you're going to do something, you should do it the best you can.

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

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.

I won't do anything unless it's the absolute best.

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

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

I don't want to record anything unless it can be great and genuinely interesting.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

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

On the other hand, always aim to be the best in what you do and give 100%.

If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

Good is often the enemy of best.

I'm always in search for perfection. If it's not perfect, I'm back to the drawing board.

Quality is everything to me, and I perfect everything I do.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

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

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

It's not enough to do good. It must be done well.

When I was a carpenter, I once worked with this Russian lady architect. I would tell her, ‘Look, I’m terribly sorry, but I want to change that a half inch,’ and she would say, ‘No limit for better.’ I think that is a worthy credo. You keep on going until you get it as close to being right as the time and patience of others will allow.

Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.

Perfection is very difficult to achieve, and perfection was what I wanted in McDonald's. Everything else was secondary for me.

You create a blueprint of your best performance, and you're happiest the night you surpass that blueprint. That won't happen that often, but it will happen. It's like sculpting: you keep refining. When you have a piece that is yours, that is just you, that becomes obsessive; you think about it all the time.

I always try to write the best I can.