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" He acts upon the principle that if a thing is worth doing at all it is worth doing well: — and the thing that he "does" especially well is the public. "
The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: The literati - Seite 252
von Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell - 1850
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Proceedings of the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of the ..., Bände 34-36

1888 - 686 Seiten
...and confined' by such action as referred to, not only the reports but the Grand Chapter will suffer. If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well. Grand Chapters with a much smaller membership than Vermont place no each limitation on the correspondence....
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Cricket

Allan Gibson Steel, Robert Henry Lyttelton, Andrew Lang - 1888 - 476 Seiten
...by no means inclined to agree with such a Spartan discipline. We believe that in games, as in life, if a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well ; but, although we claim to be second to none in our keenness to sec good boy cricketers, we differ...
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The Theosophical Quarterly, Band 12

1914 - 412 Seiten
...luncheons. This year, for special reasons, the Rector decided that the Parish should provide. Proceeding on the principle that if a thing is worth doing at all it is worth doing properly, he took steps to find out the amount of food which the women, in past years, had provided...
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The Living Age, Band 317

1923 - 850 Seiten
...intervals from my earliest youth right up to my present advanced age. How many times have I not been told that' If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well'? Never was there a more untruthful word spoken in earnest. For the world is full of things that are...
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The Journal of Education, Band 26;Band 36

1904 - 900 Seiten
...how to produce the drama which are given by the above-mentioned paper. From these it may be learned that, "if a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well " ; and other new and startling truths, such as that "it is desirable that, so far as possible, the actor should...
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Improvement Era, Band 12

1909 - 1078 Seiten
...to do by doing, not by having some one else do for us. As to time, there is time for all things; and if a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well, and worth our best efforts. (3) While a complete text may save time, we do not understand that the object...
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Adapting and Writing Language Lessons

Earl W. Stevick - 1971 - 484 Seiten
...application of the rules. The fifth assumption that underlies the modular approach is 'pluralism' : ' If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing in at least two ways.1 In fact, it seems to be the case that if a word or a sound or a grammatical...
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Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture

Johan Huizinga - 1971 - 244 Seiten
...become a business, or, to put it bluntly, a commercial racket. Trans. 'Note GK Chesterton's dictum: If a thing is worth doing at all it is worth doing badly! Trans. in every way and has no organic connection whatever with the structure of society, least...
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Essays and Reviews

Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson - 1984 - 1572 Seiten
...and this is a particular in which we cannot put our hands upon our hearts and say that Mr. Hcadley an bear, And in abasement below thunder mark! or,...is made to say: So, at last, He shall look round on "docs" especially well is the public. Southern Literary Messenger, October 1850 Henry B. Hirst The...
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Neville Chamberlain: Volume 1, 1869-1929, Band 1

David Dilks - 2002 - 684 Seiten
...something, obey at once. You may ask why afterwards, but not before you have done what you were told'; 'If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well.' 31 Neville Chamberlain, addressing a public meeting just before the first Czechoslovak crisis in 1938,...
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