Quotes About Meticulousness

Measure twice, cut once

Chip Heath and Dan Heath

I revise and revise and revise. I'm not even sure "revise" is the right word. I work a story almost to death before it's done.

I've actually always been fussy about the work I do.

Concentrate on the small things and do them well. -Dr Siri Paiboun

Me, I'm a stickler. I prefer my photographs in focus.

Livingston: What is the key to excellence for an engineer? Wozniak: You have to be very diligent. You have to check every little detail. You have to be so careful that you haven't left something out. You have to think harder and deeper than you normally would.

For the big stuff to work credibly, you've got to get the little stuff absolutely right.

Such meticulousness was touching, as though Maggie poured into the house all the tenderness that was rebuffed by those she lived with.

Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.

Perfection is in the little things

straightened the immaculate room as if to erase any sign of herself.

It's not funny, Joan. My bras are all in the first row, color-coded alphabetically from left to right, and then a row of panties, all folded in little squares, and then slips. And socks along the back row. Everything's so neat it makes me want to throw up.

In high art and pure science detail is everything.

Shred all that, then take the pieces to the incinerator at the end of the hall for burning. I like to be thorough.

I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.

The devil's in the details!

Success is in the details.

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Sticklers never read a book without a pencil at hand, to correct the typographical errors. In short, we are unattractive know-all obsessives who get things out of proportion and are in continual peril of being disowned by our exasperated families.

It's the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class.

I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am.

As you all know, I'm kind of a perfectionist.

Perfection - not a big thing but a combination of many small things.