Quotes About Thoroughness

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

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?

If I had one piece of advice for people - if they are cooking from the Alinea cookbook, the Betty Crocker cookbook or the back of the box - read through the entire recipe first before reaching for any ingredients, and then read again and execute the directions.

Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I'll read C. Fred Bergsten's defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It's embarrassing to admit.

We don't talk about the timing of open matters, but I certainly agree with the FBI director that in every investigation, no matter whom it involves, we are thorough, we are fair, we are efficient, and we move through the facts and the evidence and come to the conclusions that are called upon.

If you're going to do something, make it right and make it as good as you can. Don't waste anybody's time, especially your own.

When you're writing theology, you have to say everything all the time, otherwise people think you've deliberately missed something out.

Se diría que habita en su persona la pasión por el conocimiento detallado y preciso.

checklists seem able to defend anyone, even the experienced, against failure in many more tasks than we realized. They provide a kind of cognitive net. They catch mental flaws inherent in all of us—flaws of memory and attention and thoroughness. And because they do, they raise wide, unexpected possibilities. But

You want people to make sure to get the stupid stuff right. Yet you also want to leave room for craft and judgment and the ability to respond to unexpected difficulties that arise along the way.

Faulty memory and distraction are a particular danger in what engineers call all-or-none processes: whether running to the store to buy ingredients for a cake, preparing an airplane for takeoff, or evaluating a sick person in the hospital, if you miss just one key thing, you might as well not have made the effort at all. A

Effort does matter; diligence and attention to the minutest details can save you.

Bonhoeffer openly thought things through and taught his students to do the same. They followed lines of reasoning to their logical conclusions and considered every angle to have a sense of absolute thoroughness, so that nothing depended on mere emotion.

Details are but trifles, but details make for perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

You have to pay the same amount of detail regardless of opponent when so much is on the line.

I like to rehearse and rehearse and have everything exactly calculated before we start shooting - probably to a fault.

I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.

I learned no detail was too small. It was all about the details.

During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.

Most of the parts are really gone over and over and over again with Tool. It's a very composed situation. We spend weeks if not months working on all those songs. There's not much room for improvisation.

Trifles make perfections, but perfection is itself no trifle.

I'm not the kind of guy who likes to rush things through. I like to take my time and finish when I'm finished.

Fletcher was the instigator of a fad for extremely thorough chewing. We are not talking about British Prime Minister William Gladstone's thirty-two chews per bite. We are talking about this: "One-fifth of an ounce of the midway section of the young garden onion, sometimes called 'challot,' has required seven hundred and twenty-two mastications before disappearing through involuntary swallowing." (More on chewing and the "oral device" in chapter 7.)

You'll love it, Betsy. Each room illustrates a period. They run from the Stone Age to the death of King Ludwig the Second. Let's go through them in order!" "Oh, you Germans!" Betsy teased. "Such thoroughness! You know, don't you, that there are over a hundred rooms?