Quotes About Diligence

carefully check my receipts before I leave the store. In the last six trips, I've found errors on four occasions. This meant that I received the mischarged item for

Whoever's job it was to keep the room clean was clearly not an overachiever.

The way through controversy is not through superficiality, clichés, caricatures, and sound bites. It is through the time-consuming, energy-draining work of putting together the best thoughts that I possibly can.

She attempts to give the impression of untiring activity, thereby underlining her importance. Meanwhile her colleagues calmly and expertly get on with the job at hand.

I believe in being diligent but also cut yourself some slack. It's okay in the grand scheme of life.

I don't get complacent, because I know if you slack off, you're going to be found out. This is international boxing, and every fight is a tough fight.

One mentor I had taught me that people do what you inspect, not necessarily what you expect. In other words, if nobody is watching, there will be some slack off.

The time you do get edgy and the time you do want to slack off is the time, boom, there goes your opportunity. So you don't want to have that.

Looking back at my first job, even when I was asked to do something seemingly menial, unglamorous, or very difficult, I always went all-in. In my most trying moments with managers I liked the least, I did not give up, complain, or slack off.

Indolence is the sleep of the mind.

I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.

Always roll up the sleeves on your shirt. It gives the impression that you're working, even if you're not.

I know if I rest, I'll slide downhill fast.

My mother was a high-strung perfectionist. She would check my homework for the slightest imperfection and demand that it be redone if she detected any flaws, which she invariably did. My father, in contrast, was easy going and affable and delighted in helping me with any project.

I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.

If you don't have that ambition you start to be sloppy and that is not what I like to be.

Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly.

Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.

I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book.

I am a serious reader, and I read slowly.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly... very slowly.

I always think about the small details because I need to improve more and more.

Work smart. Get things done.

I don't have to be smarter than anybody else. I've just plain worked harder and longer than anybody else.