Quotes About Thoroughness

If you can't do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.

Pay close attention to detail in whatever it is you are doing. Be specific and expect quality from your performance.

To be a biographer is a somewhat peculiar endeavor. It seems to me it requires not only the tact, patience, and thoroughness of a scholar but the stamina of a horse.

Sometimes careful just isn't good enough.

Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details.

God dwells in the details.

God was in the details.

A good banker isn't careless with pennies; a good leader isn't sloppy about details.

You will find it a very good practice always to verify your references, sir.

The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.

I am someone who places great value on the detail. That was always the case, even in my days as a racing driver.

Things done well and with care exempt themselves from fear.

The passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease.

If a thing's worth doing at all, it's worth doing well.

Success is in the details.

Whoever wants to accomplish great things must devote to a lot of profound thought to details.

The difference between companies that make $100, 000 vs those that make $1bn dollars within the same industry is paying attention to detail.

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else.

Sweating the small stuff is important in boxing and life. On a movie, we have production assistants who're 18 and 19 years old. If someone asks you for a cup of coffee, and you bring them a cup of coffee that's cold, I make a big deal of that. I make a really, really big deal of that. You have to pay attention to details.

The last rule was to make enumerations so complete, and reviews so comprehensive, that I should be certain of omitting nothing.

And the last, in every case to make enumerations so complete, and reviews so general, that I might be assured that nothing was omitted.

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

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.