Quotes About Meticulous

I'm kind of a control freak. I like to be really prepared.

I am careful with my material and presentation.

A museum's meticulous presentation - exhaustive captions, hushed lighting, state-of-the-art armature - creates an institutional authority that is constructed to seem impregnable.

I'm pretty picky about plays.

I would describe my style of dress as careful.

There's no detail too small for me.

David Lynch is like that - every sound, every detail to the end of making the film, he never gives up. It has to be perfect.

The most detailed part of my beauty routine would have to be the eyes.

I get extremely detail-oriented. In my most stressed-out days, I get way more focused on those details than anyone should be.

The German organized plundering, planned it, disciplined it, and made it official just as he organized everything else, and then he compiled the most meticulous records to show that he had done the best job of looting that was possible under the circumstances. And we have those records.

An expert and a precisionist makes his analysis first, he always said, then his decision.3

Death should take more care with his paperwork.

His standards for himself, and for everybody around him, are the highest. He was Foreign Office trained and wants the world to function at that level. He is meticulous about everything; he hates to be late; he hates inaccuracy; he double checks everything; he follows up everything; he has fallbacks if things should, in spite of everybody's efforts, go wrong.7

I'm a writer, Inspector. I choose my words carefully.

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 suppose it's possible that a writer would have feeling for his characters, but I can't see how, because writing is such a meticulous, intricate, technical business. I wish I could say that I love my characters and that frequently they take over the book and run away with the plot and so on. But they don't exist.

The work I did on 'Killing Kennedy' was very meticulous and, in some ways, actually tedious. It was hard work because there is so much known about John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald. To try to distill that into a clear narrative that's interesting and tells two great stories was a real challenge.

seems so thoroughly thought through, so comprehensively intentional. Certainly,

In his work habits, Nicholas was solitary. Unlike most monarchs and chiefs of state—unlike even his own wife—he had no private secretary. He preferred to do things for himself. On his desk he kept a large calendar of his daily appointments, scrupulously entered in his own hand. When official papers arrived, he opened them, read them, signed them and put them in envelopes himself.

Cole was meticulous to a fault; office scuttlebut had it that he never went out in public without first having his shoelaces ironed.

Everything was perfectly sorted, classified, and slotted in his compartmentalized mind and books. Washington's contemporaries recognized that this compulsive note taking, this itch to record his every action, went to the very essence of this well-regulated man.

He was methodical to an extreme, careful as to details and exacting to a fraction.

No detail of design escaped John and Abby's exacting attention.