Martin Sheen Quotes

I do as much as I can. I even drive through the chase scenes several times to make sure the details are right.

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

I am a very thorough person.

Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves. Be thorough in all things, no matter how small or distasteful! The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.

Whatever I do, I have to put 100 percent of my focus into it because I don't like to do a bad job.

Ever since I was a young girl, even in school, I was always a perfectionist, and I always wanted to do my homework as soon as I got home. Everything had to be done properly.

Whatever I was going into, whether it was going to be chorus or history or astronomy or whatever, do it right. Be a professional. Don't just do a half baked job. Do everything correctly. Get down. Learn the details of what you're going to do.

The real value in everything you do is in the details. I just like that quote. A very similar way to say the same thing. If you're washing dishes you pay attention to washing dishes. If you're driving a car, you're paying attention to driving the car.

When you pay attention to detail, the big picture will take care of itself.

Diligence which, as it avails in all things, is also of the utmost moment in pleading causes. Diligence is to be particularly cultivated by us; it is to be constantly exerted; it is capable of effecting almost everything.

I actually think that the dotting of the i's and the crossing of the t's is what separates the United States, the United Kingdom, our allies, from those who we are fighting.

Our father taught us such a work ethic that if there's something worth doing, it's worth doing well.

I think if you get asked to do this, then that's called doing your homework, and I try and do it.

Once you take a role, you have to do it properly and do it justice.

I believe in focusing on details.

Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

I wanted nothing else than to make the object as perfect as possible.

I can't permit myself to do things halfway; I never was like that.

If I'm going to do something, I'm going to spend however long it takes to get it right.

I am careful with my material and presentation.

Whatever you do, don't take shortcuts. It's great advice to take and live by.

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

During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.

There's no detail too small for me.