Alissa White-Gluz Quotes

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

We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.

Anyone can make things that are beautiful; we need to make things that are remarkable.

Quality. That's the key. Everything I do, I want it to have that stamp that people like Jay Z, for instance, have on all the things they touch.

I don't go for average.

Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great.

I find mediocrity hard. I find that whole area difficult. I'm a very passionate person; I care very much about what I do. I believe I give it a lot, so it's gotta be good; otherwise, what's the point?

Good is the enemy of great.

There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.

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

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.

Every filmmaker's just going to keep trying to make it the best you can make it: make it as potent and interesting and entertaining and exciting and tough and sexy as you can.

To me, the only sin is mediocrity.

'Good enough is good enough' - that's never been acceptable for me.

Work on not becoming good but excellent.

Luxury is research in quality. It's quality with no compromise. What does that mean? That you don't think about how much something will cost to be able to achieve the very, very best.

When I work on my music, I always kind of just try to do my best work.

We definitely want to make sure that what we are making is something that we are proud of and something that we are inspired to write.

The only way to make something good is if you make it difficult for yourself on every conceivable level. You can't cut corners; you can't rest on your laurels.

Forget about getting a bank balance and don't be satisfied with things being good enough. Accept only that which is good or the best.

I would rather spend my entire life doing nothing than have my name attached to something mediocre.

Don't think what's the cheapest way to do it or what's the fastest way to do it. Think what's the most amazing way to do it.

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

I only scream and scratch when something's only 'really good' or 'good', I want to be great, or let's go home.