If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well.


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If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well
PROVERB
Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly.
GYPSY ROSE LEE
Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well
ELIAS SCHWARTZ
Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well.
ROBERT FULGHUM
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing late
FREDERICK SCOTT OLIVER
Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.
ELIAS SCHWARTZ
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
If a thing is worth doing, it's worth doing for money
DAVID GERROLD
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
G.K. CHESTERTON
Our father taught us such a work ethic that if there's something worth doing, it's worth doi...
DONNY OSMOND
Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.
STEVE BROWN
If anything is worth doing, it is worth doing it badly.
MARTHA N. BECK
If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.
AYN RAND
If a thing is worth doing,
it is worth doing slowly . . .
very slowly
GYPSY ROSE LEE
A job worth doing is worth doing together.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
A thing well done is worth doing.
HUGH LEONARD
If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) .
G.K CHESTERTON
If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.
STEVEN TYLER
If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing!
STACEY BROWN
Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
MAE WEST
Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Anything worth doing is worth doing with excellence.
LORRIN L. LEE
What's worth doing is worth doing for money
JOSEPH DONOHUE
If something is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.
NILE RODGERS
If a job's worth doing, it's too hard.
SCOTT ADAMS
Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
UNKNOWN
Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
MICK JAGGER
Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
DAVID LETTERMAN
Anything worth doing is worth 100%
KONOSUKE MATSUSHITA
Anything worth doing, is worth overdoing.
NIKKI SIXX
My mother always told me, “Anyone worth doing, is worth doing well.” Okay, she didn’t actually...
EMMA CHASE
Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.
DAVID LETTERMAN
Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC
Take big bites. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
My motto in life is, 'If anything is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.'
DANNY BONADUCE
Resisting is worth doing.
VERONICA ROTH
If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing.
HOMER SIMPSON
The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Any work that's worth doing has its challenges as well as its opportunities. That's true if ...
CARLY FIORINA
If something is to hard to do, then it's not worth doing.
DAN CASTELLANETA
If it does not touch your soul, it is not worth doing
N. S. COLE
Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos.
FLEA
Only the impossible is worth doing.
AKONG RINPOCHE
No matter what you do if it isn't genuine it's not worth doing, if it isn't meant with good heart it...
E.E.D. HORTON
I enjoy the fun of failure. It's fun to fail, I kept repeating. It's part of being ambitious; it's p...
GRETCHEN RUBIN
It wasn’t easy.
Nothing worth doing ever is.
And love is worth everything.
MADELINE SHEEHAN
If I lose my job, it's worth it. It's worth losing several jobs to get my papers.
JOSE CRUZ
The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
If it was truly worth doing it, I would be fully in support of it,
JOANNE HAYES
After all, a job isn't worth doing unless you enjoy it.
DINAH SHERIDAN
It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.
TERRY PRATCHETT
We really want to prove this is worth doing.
CARL ASCENZO
It's really worth doing because this war must end.
ED MULREADY
It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much ra...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is wort...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD
Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
It's dangerous and dirty and smells bad and--"
"Yeah, well, so is sex and drugs and everything ...
LILI ST. CROW
Even if it helps just one person - that night or that week - than it's all worth doing it.
KAYE BROWN
It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would muc...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Of course not," said Sturmhond. "Anything worth doing always starts as a bad idea.
LEIGH BARDUGO
This has been my run for Bob. It's hard to put yourself in this position but I know it's been well w...
CAROL ERNST
If a device would save in time 10% or bring about results worth 10% then its absence is worth 10%.
HENRY FORD
Know your worth! People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for the...
KANYE WEST
That's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doi...
RAY BRADBURY
In this industry it is not worth doing something that will take this long.
AZEEM AZHAR
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
LEWIS CARROLL
I don't have a strong sense of self-worth unless I'm doing something.
GWEN STEFANI
I love jazz and funk, because it's hard. If it's not hard, it's not worth doing.
CHRIS CARTER
It would be worth doing once as a baseline to know where you stand. I'm not sure it's worth the mone...
DR. JERE SEGREST
Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized. People just don't have that much vision.
PABLO PICASSO
We had to fight to get this study. But it's always worth doing the trial.
CYNTHIA PEARSON
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who...
GORE VIDAL
We'll have a new daughter-in-law coming into the operation.
BOB WORTH
Our tile ran all winter. We haven't seen that for a long time.
BOB WORTH
But we share everything so we don't double up on anything.
BOB WORTH
We all love the 2002 farm bill. We don't know if we'll get to keep it. It's a good safety net. There...
BOB WORTH
We had our hiccups, but maybe it's a blessing in disguise, Now, we have a better product.
BOB WORTH
We till a bare minimum, light tilling in the fall and in the spring to plant. We have a lot of wind.
BOB WORTH
Just try doing that even on the ground sometime.
BJ WORTH
My parents were so old-fashioned in their attitude to sex that I would rather get in trouble with th...
CLIVE WORTH
What happened today was incredible; we made history with three world-record jumps of 376, 399 and 40...
BJ WORTH
She approached them all without a trace of sentimentality or condescension. The older Docklanders we...
JENNIFER WORTH
Winning the regular season as a team means more to me than being named second team all-conference. W...
WORTH RICHARDSON
A colt is worth little if it does not break its halter.
PROVERB
There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR
VA is a unique national resource that is worth saving, and I am committed to doing just that.
DAVID SHULKIN
Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I ha...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.
KENNETH GRAHAME
There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.
KENNETH GRAHAM
[F]or what in this world is worth doing that doesn't require a portion of one's body and soul?
JAMIE KORNEGAY
It's worth trying and doing your best. And remember, for some questions you can get full credit even...
DAN CASLER
Everything worth is known to a true heart and everyone understands its worth only if they don’t mi...
ANUJ SOMANY
Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in ...
BARBARA SHER
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
LOUIS D. BRANDEIS
The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.
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