Anything Worth Doing Quotes

Anything worth doing is worth 100%.

Anything worth doing always starts as a bad idea.

But anything worth doing is worth doing badly. Like being there by that summer ocean on the other side of the island while love was fading out of her, the stars burning so extravagantly those nights that anyone could tell you they would never last.

There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.

There ain't anything worth doing a man can do and keep his dignity. Can you figure out a single thing you really please-God like to do you can do and keep your dignity? The human frame just ain't built that way.

Take big bites. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.

I think it rather fine, this necessity for the tense bracing of the will before anything worth doing can be done. I rather like it myself. I feel it is to be the chief thing that differentiates me from the cat by the fire.

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

We believed anything worth doing was worth over-doing

Love is the only path to anything worth doing, creating or pursuing.

Anything worth doing does not have to be done perfectly - at first.

Perfectionism doesn't believe in practice shots. It doesn't believe in improvement. Perfectionism has never heard that anything worth doing is worth doing badly--and that if we allow ourselves to do something badly we might in time become quite good at it. Perfectionism measures our beginner's work against the finished work of masters. Perfectionism thrives on comparison and competition. It doesn't know how to say, "Good try," or "Job well done." The critic does not believe in creative glee--or any glee at all, for that matter. No, perfectionism is a serious matter.

I've always followed the rule that anything worth doing is worth doing excessively.

No one ever did anything worth doing unless they were prepared to go on with it long after it became something of a bore.

My mama taught me that anything worth doing in life should be a little scary.

Once we are willing to accept that anything worth doing might even be worth doing badly, our options widen.

An idiot will do anything, no matter how stupid, because he is afraid of what everybody will think of him if he does nothing. A genius, on the other hand, is content to do nothing, no matter what people think, if he can’t find anything worth doing.

Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better.

Anything worth doing, is worth doing all the way. Just know you'll have to live with all the choices that you make.

There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave.

Anything worth doing is worth doing twice, the first time quick and dirty and the second time the best way you can.

Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly.

Anything worth doing in this world is incredibly difficult to do.

Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.

If you only try to do the things where you win, then you'll never try to do anything worth doing.

Anything worth doing hurts a little.

I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. . . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly at first.

Anything worth doing is worth over-doing. Moderation is for cowards.

Anything worth doing is going to be difficult.

Anything in life worth doing is worth overdoing. Moderation is for cowards.

...why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an antisocial being. He's not that way because he wants to be; he can't be any other way.... and if he really is an artist it is in his nature not to want to be admitted, because if he is admitted it can only mean he is doing something which is understood, approved, and therefore old hat - worthless. Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.

Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.

Take the word for it of a man who has made his way inch by inch, and does not believe that we'll wake up to find our work done because we've lain all night a-dreaming of it; anything worth doing is devilish hard to do!

Don't let the low standards and expectations of the world and others cause you to aim beneath your nobility and ability-dream big! What I know and have learned is that anything worth doing is not easy and that we can do anything that is not easy if we believe.

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well. The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have, fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes.

Anything worth doing is worth doing well.

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.