Quotes About Methodical

If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be, but would proceed at once with the feverish diligence of a bee, to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. … Just a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor.

To attempt a methodical presentation of the subject is very difficult, as psychology requires a certain scientific detachment. But does a man who makes his observations while he himself is a prisoner possess the necessary detachment? Such detachment is granted to the outsider, but he is too far removed to make any statements of real value.

So the being grows rings; identity becomes robust. What was fiery and furtive like a fling of grain cast into the air and blown hither and thither by wild gusts of life from every quarter is now methodical and orderly and flung with a purpose--so it seems.

though romantic, he was singularly methodical and detested nothing so much as a ball of string on the floor

They play like file clerks file.

Experience and disappointments had made us methodical.

The power play is as methodical as even strength is designed to be chaotic.

THE THING WAS AN EXPERT IN HORROR, BUT THIS HUMAN HORROR INDEED EXCEEDED ANY OTHER POSSIBLE FATE. NOT ONLY BECAUSE IT WAS WITHOUT MERCY, BUT BECAUSE IT WAS ACTED UPON RATIONALLY AND WITHOUT COMPULSION. IT WAS A CHOICE. THE KILLING WAS UNRELATED TO THE LARGE WAR, AND IT SERVED NO OTHER PURPOSE THEN EVIL. MEN CHOSE TO DO THIS TO OTHER MEN AND INVENTED REASONS AND PLACES AND MYTHS IN ORDER TO SATISFY THEIR DESIRE IN A LOGICAL AND METHODICAL WAY.

You're a Capricorn to the core. Organized, loves structure, not driven by impulse, a master of restraint.

Do you guys understand anything about best practices? I know you laugh at me because I follow procedures on everything, but those procedures were created for a reason.

I take things one step at a time.

I'm not going to deny it. I'm a neat person, there's no question. But I don't become obsessed with it.

I'm obsessed with making lists.

I'm kind of an obsessive-compulsive person, like, neat obsessive.

Since he had, in contrast to his delivery, a big burly squared-off bulk of a body which gave hint of the methodical ruthlessness of more than one Russian bureaucrat, Von Braun's relatively small voice, darting eyes, and semaphoric presentations of lip made it obvious he was a man of opposites. He

Bonzo, he pre-cise. He so careful, he piss on a plate and never splash.

He so careful, he piss on a plate and never splash.

The spotlight kept rowing back and forth across the face of the ridge. Methodically. Bright shuttle, dark loom.

We can plan our work and work our plan; however, being organized and methodical will not protect us from the unexpected.

what it could do by patrolling systematically

And Shelly wondered why Ivy lived by her lists.

All good work is done the way ants do things: Little by little.

I've always had a 'Work hard, play hard' attitude to life - I still do - but sometimes you get involved in something that needs a calm, methodical approach.

You can't build a chimney from the top, you know.