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Quotes About Thoroughness

Haste makes waste.
~ English proverb
It's impressive how God attends to the details.
~ Suzanne Finnamore
The Employer IS an Employer because he was once a good Employee. Thoroughness is at the bottom of Winning. No structure ever stood — built upon half sand and half stone. Be Thorough — stamping daily upon your very Brain, as a Motto, this thought —
~ Napoleon Hill
I like to be right. I try not to miss the big ideas, forget the little ones, and try to get them right. End of job description.
~ Jeremy Grantham
There was a beautiful thoroughness about his wakened anger--it never made inquiries till later.
~ Thomas Wolfe
For puritans of whatever faith, God is in the detail.
~ Tim Mackintosh-Smith
He checked their work, and they checked his, for caution and thoroughness was the mark of such men.
~ Tom Clancy
In Nehruvian 'secularism', superficiality of thought is compensated for by thoroughness in dishonesty.
~ Koenraad Elst
Take a look at this there's no caking in the corners
~ Carpenter Greg Zanis
He pares his apple that will cleanly feed.
~ George Herbert
More details, more devils.
~ George R.R. Martin
Exactness in little things is a wonderful source of cheerfulness.
~ F. W. Faber
anything to see. I want uniforms canvassing again in the
~ J.D. Robb
Leave no stone unturned.
~ Euripides
Everything we do on 'Luck' is absolutely no different than if we'd had been doing it in a feature film. There's no short cuts. The specificity of what every single line might mean. Everything Dustin Hoffman does. Kevin Dunn is as authentic in the last scene of the last episode as he is in the first scene of the first episode.
~ Michael Mann
If I'm interviewing someone I need to know everything about them - I do these massive spider diagrams. Everything under different categories, and certain questions in other categories.
~ Cat Deeley
The lieutenant looks somewhat taken aback that Uncle Enzo is concerning himself with such a tiny detail It is as if the don were going up and down highways picking up litter or something. But he nods respectfully, having just learned something: details matter.
~ Neal Stephenson
Know your materials! See the most minute nuances! Savor them! God is in the details.
~ Nicholas Fox Weber
I'm real big on making sure everything is right and taking my time.
~ Metro Boomin
It's better to get things right than to get them fast.
~ Christopher Long
Finally, remember this fundamental principle: the more you narrow the field, the better and more safely you will work. Always prefer a monograph to a survey. It is better for your thesis to resemble an essay than a complete history or an encyclopedia.
~ Umberto Eco
would be "carried out fairly and fully and forthwith.
~ Upton Sinclair
When one does wrong, one must do it thoroughly.
~ Victor Hugo
sake of exactness
~ Victor Hugo