Quotes About Thoroughness

God is in the details, said the architect Ludwig mies van der Rohe.

There is no such thing as quick and dirty. Anything dirty is slow. The only way to go fast, is to go well.

It is not enough for code to work.

The only way to go fast, is to go well.

When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things. I just want to get at it slowly, but carefully and thoroughly, with the same attitude I remember was present just before I found that sheared pin. It was that attitude that found it, nothing else.

he never bothered to look them up.

If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

Whatever happens, happens because I'm trying to dot every 'I' and cross every 'T.'

The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail.

I believe you've got to do your due diligence.

You have to be able to deep dive and know your stuff, otherwise you'll get called out on it.

If we rush too quickly to be scientific, to begin our experiment or catch our criminal as soon as possible, we risk never getting to the answer at all.

Story is about thoroughness, not shortcuts.

As I began my life as a bookkeeper, I learned to have great respect for figures and facts, no matter how small they were.… I had a passion for detail which afterward I was forced to strive to modify.

Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.

Little things make the difference. Everyone is well prepared in the big things, but only the winners perfect the little things.

When I started out in business, I spent a great deal of time researching every detail that might be pertinent to the deal I was interested in making. I still do the same today. People often comment on how quickly I operate, but the reason I can move quickly is that Ive done the background work first, which no one usually sees. I prepare myself thoroughly, and then when it is time to move ahead, I am ready to sprint.

The long and short of it is, we need more rigor in all kinds of programs.

If you're gonna do a job, do it properly.

Once you take a role, you have to do it properly and do it justice.

I just think if you're going to do something, do it properly.

I'm the sort of person who has to learn something properly before I show anyone.

I take time with my films and I want to work on every script properly before I move on to something else.

If I'm going to do something, I'll do it properly or not at all.