Quotes About Thoroughness

The biggest thing as a head coach, you want to make sure you exhaust every option.

He delivered his dissertation about the Founding Fathers with such exactitude.

Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.

Creationist? Well, no, it's not creationist either. The point is that we are probably a bit less top-to-bottom thorough than, say, the Army Corps of Engineers. Well, actually, scratch that. We are probably about exactly as thorough as the Army Corps of Engineers, in that we are intermittently thorough.

once you commit, don't hesitate or skimp. Do it right.

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

We are incapable of leaving anything to the imagination and loath to leave anything out. Maniacal thoroughness has become our national verbal ideal.

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.

When I do form an opinion, I'm very aggressive about it. But I don't form that opinion until I've done a tremendous amount of work.

There's only one way to assure consistently good work. That is consistently thorough preparation.

I don't want to make public statements about issues that I have not studied in detail.

leave not a speck.that may cause a wreck...

The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.

I see myself as the mind of the business which takes care of every last detail; if you do not do this you cannot be fast enough.

Make sure you've done absolutely all your homework on the client company, the client marketplace, and the client individual, and that it's absolutely up to the minute. Even if you know them and their business cold, there is likelihood that there will be some news clip about your client that will have been published that very day.

If, in all the circumstances of life a man does not turn over and over both things and ideas in order to examine them thoroughly under their different aspects before taking action, that man is weak and incomplete and in danger of fatal failure.

I promised myself that I would go through everything thoroughly; I would try the ceilings, and floors, and walls, and cornices to discover all the gold, hoarded with such passionate greed by a Dutch miser worthy of a Rembrandt's brush. In all the course of my professional career I have never seen such impressive signs of the eccentricity of avarice.

In short, the investigation was undistinguished and lacked any thoroughness.

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 accomplished.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

In high art and pure science detail is everything.

I'm a very cerebral person and I like to do my homework and break it down. I like to feel like I did my due diligence. It's a confidence factor for me, as an actor.

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