Quotes About Thoroughness

if merely for the sake of exactness in all points

Fanatical attention to consistency and detail •

I don't like to leave anything unfinished. I have an absolute need to see that every phone call is returned, every letter answered.

We break down every element of the game, shift by shift and within the shift. And maybe sometimes we are over-the-top on that, but love our detail on the staff and how we do things.

I would ruin my credibility if I put my stamp of approval of anything I didn't do my due diligence on.

Doing it right, is more important than doing it fast. I can do it fast and right.

Good work requires of us an appreciation of the value of routine, ordinary, mundane rhythms of doing what needs to be done, each day and each week, thoroughly and with care.

In a true zero-defects approach, there are no unimportant items.

Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being acccomplished.

And yet this very singleness of vision and thorough one-ness with his age is a mark of the successful man. It is as though Nature must needs make men narrow in order to give them force.

Según su padre, era importante darles un buen acabado a las partes traseras de los armarios y las vallas, aunque fueran a quedar ocultas. «Le encantaba hacer bien las cosas. Se preocupaba incluso por las partes que no se podían ver».

Never leave a rhinestone unturned.

As a father and a provider, no stone goes unturned.

I pride myself on leaving no stone unturned as far as being the most prepared that I can be.

I want to make sure I leave no stone unturned when it comes to my career.

She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.

I think it's important that you know every detail when you open a store, that you pay attention to everything.

Three of his greatest characteristics are he's really smart, he has tremendous energy, and he'll get into the details with anybody on anything. Most people who get to the level that he is at are prone to be superficial when it comes to running the business; they don't have enough time or energy to get into the details," observed Harvard Business School professor Paul Marshall.

I wouldn't say that I'm particularly bothered or obsessed with detail.

Chip Heath and Dan Heath

It is by constant and conscientious attention to daily duties that thoroughness and conscientiousness and honorableness are imbedded in our beings.

Finally, it is worth mentioning, in the interest of thoroughness, that the defeat exasperated the conflict between generations. For four years the combatants of 1914 reproached those of 1940 for having lost the war, and those of 1940, in reply, accused their elders of having lost the peace.

Human work must be done honourably and thoroughly, because we are now Men; whether we ever expect to be angels, or were ever slugs, being practically no matter.

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.