„Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well.“
— Robert Fulghum, book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
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American journalist and author 1937 - 2005Related quotes
„Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.“
— Mick Jagger British rock musician, member of The Rolling Stones 1943
„Anything worth doing, is worth overdoing.“
— Nikki Sixx American musician 1958
Source: The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star
„Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly--until you can learn to do it well.“
— Zig Ziglar American motivational speaker 1926 - 2012
— Edwin H. Land American scientist and inventor 1909 - 1991
Comment after a 1977 Polaroid shareholder's meeting, as quoted in The Icarus Paradox : How Exceptional Companies Bring About Their Own Downfall; New Lessons in the Dynamics of Corporate Success, Decline, and Renewal (1990) by Danny Miller, p. 126
„Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.“
— Pablo Picasso Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer 1881 - 1973
— Arthur Leonard Schawlow American physicist 1921 - 1999
as quoted by [Steven Chu and Charles H. Townes, Biographical Memoirs V.83, National Academies Press, 2003, 0-309-08699-X, 201]
„Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.“
— Hunter S. Thompson American journalist and author 1937 - 2005
„If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.“
— G. K. Chesterton English mystery novelist and Christian apologist 1874 - 1936
Folly and Female Education
What's Wrong With The World (1910)
„Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.“
— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield British statesman and man of letters 1694 - 1773
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
— Isla Dewar Scottish novelist who died in 2021 1946 - 2021
Women Talking Dirty
„If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.“
— Ayn Rand Russian-American novelist and philosopher 1905 - 1982
„If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly … very slowly.“
— Gypsy Rose Lee American burlesque performer, actress, author 1911 - 1970
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
„If a thing's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. (Lazarus Long)“
— Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
Variant: Take big bites. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
Source: Time Enough for Love
„Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving.“
— Lois McMaster Bujold, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
Source: Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
„Anything worth having is worth fighting for.“
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips American writer 1948
Source: Heaven, Texas
„Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.“
— Cormac McCarthy American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter 1933
The Wall Street Journal, November 20, 2009, "Hollywood's Favorite Cowboy" http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704576204574529703577274572.html by John Jurgensen <!--accessed: November 17, 2009-->
Variant: I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
Context: I'm not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
— Ray Bradbury American writer 1920 - 2012
Playboy interview (1996)
Context: If NASA's budgeters could be convinced that there are riches on Mars, we would explode overnight to stand on the rim of the Martian abyss. We need space for reasons we have not as yet discovered, and I don't mean Tupperware. … NASA feels it has to justify everything it does in practical terms.
And Tupperware was one of the many practical products that came out of space travel. NASA feels it has got to flimflam you to get you to spend money on space. That's B. S. We don't need that. Space travel is life-enhancing, and anything that's life-enhancing is worth doing. It makes you want to live forever.