Quotes About Meticulous

Little did the artist know, who neglected his appearance in favor of his work, that the years would produce a breed that spent hours meticulously acquiring a neglected look to appear like an artist.

I'm a big micro manager; I'm a stickler about organisation; everything needs a place, a purpose, and micro managing myself even when I'm in the studio.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

I pick up subtle cues very well and pay attention to detail.

I am pretty tenacious as a perfectionist in terms of getting something right.

What careful planning, what painstaking attention to detail, goes into extinguishing a man's life! Far more than the hit-or-miss, haphazard circumstances of igniting it. ("New York Blues")

Not many people are really that meticulous with what they do, I suppose, but I'm just a control freak and terribly afraid of failure or regret. I work very hard on these things.

I never let a rhinestone go unturned

And this, I realized, is the excruciating scrupulosity, the same maddening, meticulous attention to every last detail that makes you great, that keeps you going and got you through and now is dragging you down. Standing with E. I. Lonoff over the disobedient arm of his record player, I understood the celebrated phenomenon for the first time: a man, his destiny, and his work—all one. What a terrible triumph!

pedantically

I'm a Virgo; I naturally love to organize things.

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

I tend to over-prepare my shot lists.

Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.

punctiliousness—in

But, Lucien, he was not insane, and there's no way I can find some bogus psychiatrist to say he was. He planned it meticulously, every detail.

And you know what genius is, Mose? It's endless attention to detail.

Always aim at perfection for only then will you achieve excellence

I know that aiming at perfection has its drawbacks. It makes you go into details that you can avoid but that is the only way you can achieve excellence. So, in that case, being finicky is essential.

We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.

washed clean like a porcelain, with housewifely care...

fussiness, and his

Where are the dogs going? you people who pay so little attention ask. They are going about their business. And they are very punctilious, without wallets, notes, and without briefcases.

The universe has no mind and that's why it can never reach perfection! Perfection is the art of meticulous high-mind!