Thoughts of the Day

[kerravonsen]

Grumpy thought: If you don't have time to do it right, you don't have time to do it.

Happy thought: People are interesting.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Good message, but it needs a balance. Here's the thought I'd add to the back:

"The perfect is the enemy of the done."

[fred_mouse]

Which a friend of mine used to phrase as "half-arsed is better than no-arsed". (or possibly 'can't be arsed', but I think the one I gave first is right, even though it sounds odd).

[miamadwyn.livejournal.com]

For people like me, that t-shirt explains why nothing ever gets done ever.

[kerravonsen]

Heh, there's so many different ways to take that slogan.

For me, it was born out of frustration that A Certain Manager wouldn't allow things to be done properly because they were all "No time! No time! Rush! Rush! Rush!", so that months later, after the original perpetrators had left, other people were left to tidy up the mess they left behind, and given an arbitrary deadline in which to do so.
Makes me cross. Particularly since certain of us had expressed our concerns about it last year, and were told not to worry. Grrr.

There's a reason why "quick and dirty" is called quick and dirty.

It isn't perfectionism to protest that sort of thing, it's professionalism.

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

You don't agree with Chesterton then? :~)

certain of us had expressed our concerns about it last year, and were told not to worry.

Though that sort of thing really gets my goat.

[kerravonsen]

You don't agree with Chesterton then? :~)

(grin) Oh, I do agree with Chesterton. "If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing badly."
I just don't think that professional work is important enough to do badly. 8-P