Johannes Brahms Quotes

Strive for excellence in few things, rather than good performance in many.

Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.

I want to do one thing and do it well.

You can only do so many things great, and you should cast aside everything else.

It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.

If you're gonna learn how to do something, you'd better learn to do it right.

Do it, do it right, pay close attention to the product, and over time, you will win.

A thing worth learning is worth learning well.

I just take everything one at a time and make sure everything I do is the best.

The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.

I should never have made my success in life if I had not bestowed upon the least thing I have ever undertaken the same attention and care that I have bestowed upon the greatest.

If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing twice.

It takes time to create excellence. If it could be done quickly, more people would do it.

Focusing on one thing and doing it really, really well can get you very far.

It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.

Anything worth doing is worth doing well.

Carlos Castaneda always said, "If you're going to do something, do it impeccably."

I focus on things that are the highest value and do them perfectly.

I don't believe in doing everything and being mediocre at all of them. I believe in being good at one thing.

Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right.

I've only had two rules: Do all you can and do it the best you can. It's the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something.

Don't strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence.

When I learn martial arts, my master will have me try a punch for a week and he will keep saying, 'No, you don't have it. No, that's not right.' When he finally says, 'Yes, you did it,' it's a wonderful moment. You worked on it. You got it.

Success in any endeavor requires single-minded attention to detail and total concentration.

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