Corey Harrison Quotes

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?

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

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

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

When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.

It is the accuracy and detail inherent in crafted goods that endows them with lasting value. It is the time and attention paid by the carpenter, the seamstress and the tailor that makes this detail possible.

To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.

When you come across something, and its quality is just outrageous, that's probably something of value. It's been that way for hundreds and hundreds of years - the really, really expensive stuff is also really, really high quality.

Everybody wants to own quality, but quality takes time, and it takes money.

I like my products to be smart in a technical way but to show the time invested in their creation, too.

I hate crap, I like craftsmanship

Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.

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.

The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.

Pixar has been compared to fine furniture makers who polish the backs of drawers - even if you don't see everything in a particular scene, you still feel that every little detail has been met.

Art is all in the details.

If I'm going to make something in the kitchen, even if it's something as simple as a sandwich, I will take the extra time to make it a great sandwich instead of just an average sandwich. I don't mind investing a little extra work to make something special.

Make each product the best it can be. Focus on form and materials. What we don't include is as important as what we do include.

Building a house is a lot like moviemaking. The attention to detail, the sense that you're doing something that has longevity.

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 care deeply about craft: the quality of how something is made and the experience it enables.

My working method has always been, 'Work really hard and get it right the first time.'

Whatever I'm doing, I try and keep the quality very high.

I have always believed in quality work.

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