Sunday Snippet: Umair Haque
August 28th, 2011 by Michael Kwan
“Not that everything you do will end up a masterpiece. But you should paint it like it could be.”
One such exactly is Umair Haque. He may not be a household name, but one of his recent tweets certainly caught my attention and I thought it was worth sharing. In the quote above, he encapsulates the kind of vision and work ethic that is needed to create a masterpiece. Whether you are talking about a business prospect or a work of art, you need to approach every project knowing that it has the potential to be something great.
Absolutely, most of what you do won’t rise to incredible prominence, but each individual piece can have that potential. It can be beyond great. It can be a stroke of genius, but only if you believe that it can and work on it accordingly. If you go in with the mindset that your project will be mediocre and lost among the masses, that’s likely what will happen to it.
Paint it like it could be a masterpiece and that just might be what you get.
Tags: inspiration, memorable quotes, work ethic
Filed under Personal Development.
This made me think Michael about a thing my Dad used to tell me. Good, better, best, never let it rest, until the good is better and the better is best.
Also, what Casey Kasem ended his Top 40 Countdown with:
“Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.”
I had a post about reaching for the stars a couple years ago.
Reach for the Stars, Keep Feet on the Ground
Didn’t connect to it in my mind when I thought of Kasem. Just checked it out and I actually commented on the post. You having the wording backwards from Kasem, which is probably why I didn’t connect the two.
Thanks for the flashback.
That’s because I didn’t know the line/concept came from Casey when I wrote that post! I heard it in passing somewhere and thought it was worth exploring.
That is quite a good quote. I have always made a point to always give everything my all. My Father always said Play Hard or Go Home, and that is what i have always done. You can’t expect everything to be awesome all the time, but you should always to your best to make it happen.