Quotes About Diligence

He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed.

I worked hard at whatever task I was given and embraced leadership opportunities, whether as a crossing guard, an altar boy, or a general.

I think the right way to work is by focusing on each task at hand and then move forward.

Irrespective of the tasks given to me, I have done my best to discharge my duties.

Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.

I find myself more and more behind these days. You have to be really diligent. I don't have kids, which helps. I'm always working on something, whether a book, or a law review article that no one will ever read, or teaching. It pretty much means I work a lot, but it's all stuff I love.

Just making sure, Miss 'I'm a Quick Study.

What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life.

There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking." With

ìIdleness is an appendix to nobilityî

Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

If we are diligent about building well-formed and robust systems, we should never let little, convenient idioms lead to modularity breakdown. The startup process of object construction and wiring is no exception.

There is no such thing as quick and dirty. Anything dirty is slow. The only way to go fast, is to go well.

It is not enough for code to work.

they all possessed that seriousness of the efficient workman which first learns to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; they allowed themselves time for it, because they took more pleasure in making the little, secondary things well than in the effect of a dazzling whole. —FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Do not overstep your bounds. Do what you are assigned to do, to the best of your abilities, and never do more. To think that by doing more you are doing better is a common blunder. It is never good to seem to be trying too hard—it is as if you were covering up some deficiency. Fulfilling a task that has not been asked of you just makes people suspicious. If you are a crown-keeper, be a crown-keeper. Save your excess energy for when you are not in the court.

I have never known anyone else, Egwene said to him, who will work so hard to avoid hard work, Matrim Cauthon.

Leaving something unfinished was nearly as bad as messing up the details.

You hammered the iron that lay on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.

Care and a long life go together, blacksmith

Care and Quality are internal and external aspects of the same thing. A person who sees Quality and feels it as he works is a person who cares. A person who cares about what he sees and does is a person who's bound to have some characteristic of quality.

When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things.

A person who sees Quality and feels it as he works is a person who cares. A person who cares about what he sees and does is a person who's bound to have some characteristics of Quality

When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things. I just want to get at it slowly, but carefully and thoroughly, with the same attitude I remember was present just before I found that sheared pin. It was that attitude that found it, nothing else.