Quotes About Diligence

Hard work is like compounded interest in the bank. The rewards build faster.

**(C)(P)-THE URGENCY OF NOW-SITUATION DICTATES THAT WE ACT WITH DUE DILIGENCE AND COMPETENCE TO GET AND ACHIEVE OUR FOCUSED OBJECTIVES. DIFFICULT CONSEQUENCES MAY ARISE FROM DIFFICULT DECISIONS MADE. HINDSIGHT MAY ALWAYS TRY TO VALIDATE FORESIGHT, BUT ONLY IF FORESIGHT WAS PREDICTABLE IN ITS OUTCOMES!

To do the job which you've got really well; so well that you don't lose your self-respect doing it':

I don't like not being busy.

I'll work my butt off to do something well.

Talent is obviously very important, but it's also about how you approach the work and, you know, maybe this is a Canadian thing, but it's good to be nice.

I am trying to be a lot more careful - and to not miss easy balls.

I did things right, I never got into any trouble. I was professional and I carried myself well and always did what I was asked to do.

I cannot be casual about my work.

More matches are lost through carelessness at the beginning than any other cause.

I am cautious about becoming lazy.

You don't want to come out with anything that's wrong, of course, in a scientific, you know, a major scientific announcement, and so you're being so careful trying to check, well maybe it's this, maybe it's that, you're looking at every possible thing.

The habits of study in which I have been brought up have done much to support me. I never allow myself to be one moment unoccupied.

I've always been a workhorse, and I've been supporting myself since I was 15.

I don't mind playing a supporting character if it has some substance.

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.

My head been on a swivel before I was rapping. So, do my head not supposed to be on the swivel? If you've been like this your whole life, do it stop because you got money now? Do it stop because everybody and their momma looking at you now?

I am still doing my due diligence. A vote on a Supreme Court nominee is a lifetime appointment and when the court decides, it is the law of the land.

You can have all the information you want in the world. If you don't have the people raising questions and looking beneath the surface, and people being paid to do this, you're not going to find the answers.

Laziness will stop your progress in your spiritual practice.

Such work would never be done if scientists were satisfied with a lazy default such as 'intelligent design theory

Fame will come to some. Honor will visit all who work.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. —MOTHER TERESA

But if you're very clever, I think there's something that can unhinge you if you're not careful.