Pittacus of Mytilene Quotes

A thing worth learning is worth learning well.

Anything worth doing is worth doing well.

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

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

Everyone should be good at what they do.

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

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

You've got to perfect your craft.

That's kind of how I see my workmanship: it's how many hours I put in that makes me better.

I work really hard on my craft.

I take my craft seriously.

If you're not going to do it to the best of your ability, then don't do it at all.

Any job worth doing is worth doing well. But to be able to do that, you have to do it over and over again.

Whatever your craft is, be a master of it. Being half assed at something, people will eventually see through.

I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.

If a thing's worth doing at all, it's worth doing well.

And here is the lesson I learned in the army. If you want to do a thing badly, you have to work at it as though you want to do it well.

Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with quality.

Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.

Only that which is well done is quickly done.

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

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

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.

I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.

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.