Quotes About Thoroughness

used to spare no pains, and I fancied her rummaging in some

Details matter, it's worth waiting to get it right.

I don't care if it's the slow way; I just want to do it the right way.

Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.

Las personas de éxito conocen la importancia de los detalles. No han dejado nada al azar. No asumen que todo se hará de forma correcta o que a cualquier otra persona le importa su viaje tanto como a ellos.

Leave nothing to chance. Overlook nothing. Combine contradictory observations. Allow yourself enough time.

There are so many journalists out there, I hate to say it, who are lazy and don't do their research - and it shows.

lips. You need to have three or four smart questions ready, and it's nice to have them on a note card you take out so you really seem prepared.

In those early years, I worked endlessly to research every detail that might affect the deal I wanted to pursue. I do the same today. People often comment on how quickly I operate, but I can move quickly when opportunities open because I've done the background work first—which no one else sees. I prepare thoroughly. Then, when the green flag is dropped, I can stay ahead of competitors.

Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.

I like doing everything fully, getting the most out of everything one does. I think that's the way to live.

There's no use being satisfied when things are done wrongly. I want perfection.

There's no half-assing anything you do if you want to do it well.

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

Analytical reading is thorough reading, complete reading, or good reading—the best reading you can do.

Gone out to look for a hair to split, I expect.

My working method has always been, 'Work really hard and get it right the first time.'

I enter into a book and settle in it, neck and crop, you should realize, in one or two pages of a philosophical essay as if I were entering a landscape, a piece of nature, a state organism, a detail of the earth, if you like, in order to penetrate into it entirely and not just with half my strength or half-heartedly, in order to explore it and then, having explored it with all the thoroughness at my disposal, drawing conclusions as to the whole.

George's son had done his work so thoroughly that he was considered too good a workman to live, and was, in fact, taken and tragically shot at twelve o'clock that same day—another instance of the untoward fate which so often attends dogs and other philosophers who follow out a train of reasoning to its logical conclusion, and attempt perfectly consistent conduct in a world made up so largely of compromise.

Wir werden sie ausführlich erzählen, genau und gründlich, – denn wann wäre je die Kurz- oder Langweiligkeit einer Geschichte abhängig gewesen von dem Raum und der Zeit, die sie in Anspruch nahm? Ohne Furcht vor dem Odium der Peinlichkeit, neigen wir vielmehr der Ansicht zu, daß nur das Gründliche wahrhaft unterhaltend sei.

he would skin a flea for the fat on its arse.

In any investigation, what are the most relevant circumstances? None," he would bark in reply. "All the circumstances are relevant, everything must be examined from every angle!

Reports for the bureau always got to have all the i 's dotted and the t 's crossed.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.