
“Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well.”
Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
The French attribute this to the painter Nicolas Poussin (born 15 June 1594) "Ce qui vaut la peine d'être fait vaut la peine d'être bien fait"
Disputed
“Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well.”
Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
“Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly--until you can learn to do it well.”
“Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.”
“If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.”
Folly and Female Education
What's Wrong With The World (1910)
“If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.”
“If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly … very slowly.”
As quoted in Great Hollywood Wit: A Glorious Cavalcade of Hollywood Wisecracks, Zingers, Japes, Quips, Slings, Jests, Snappers, & Sass from the Stars (2003) by Gene Shalit, p. 46
“Anything worth doing, is worth overdoing.”
Source: The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star
“Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.”