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Quotes About Thorough

How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing.42
~ Chris Hedges
If an organization such as the Apparatus has the prime duty of undermining a civilization, it must be thorough. One must make the maximum amount of trouble for the maximum number of people for the minimum number of reasons. That rule holds good for governments, for governmental organizations and for government officers and agents.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age we live in.
~ la rochefoucauld iv
Long before a thermonuclear war can come about, we have had to lay waste our own sanity. We begin with the children. It is imperative to catch them in time. Without the most thorough and rapid brainwashing their dirty minds would see through our dirty tricks. Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I.Q.s if possible.
~ laing ronald david
I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles, in order to stop the vivacity of his mind, and please do not forget to meditate upon the subject of our discussion.
~ Nicolas Malebranche
I have always enjoyed thinking about playing patterns and I will undoubtedly continue to do so in front of the TV but to become a coach, to be thorough in football at all times, to prepare matches and training... I cannot imagine that I would find pleasure there and pleasure is essential in football.
~ Philipp Lahm
We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
~ Thomas Carlyle
Throughout my career, especially the second half of my career, I was always nerdy or anal when it came to how I prepared for my matches.
~ Gail Kim
My family nickname is 'Mr. Safety.' I mean, I check everything. Is everything off, is it put away where it's supposed to be?
~ Ron Rivera
Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations. And nothing is more desolating than a thorough knowledge of the private self.
~ Aldous Huxley
There is only one road here: the most thorough study of all the details of the Chernobyl disaster, since it is by no means precluded that one of the details of it that is overlooked today will sometime be the main cause of the next calamity or the one after that.
~ Grigori Medvedev
You won't talk to anybody who breaks lyrics down more thoroughly. It's just a complete deconstruction, and when you start to rebuild, nobody has the capacity to do it like me. Which is not to say I'm better, it's just that there's a unique quality to everyone.
~ Harry Connick, Jr.
I gave up the notion of writing the life of Joan of Arc, as I found that there was absolutely no new material to be gleaned on her history - in fact, she had been thrashed out.
~ Sabine Baring-Gould
Bonzo, he pre-cise. He so careful, he piss on a plate and never splash.
~ Orson Scott Card
He so careful, he piss on a plate and never splash.
~ Orson Scott Card
considerable achievement, a thorough and insightful look into the life of Apple's visionary' The Times
~ Walter Isaacson
I think what happened to me was I was so lucky to have made 'Secretary' so young. It's unusual to be given an opportunity to express yourself as an actress that young and that thoroughly.
~ Maggie Gyllenhaal
Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else - felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance - is a satellite around the sun. Thorough preparation is that sun.
~ Louis Nizer
Winter does not work only on a broad scale; he is careful in trifles.
~ Alexander Smith
Typically you see the home office think up some great program but doesn't think through implementation at the store level.
~ Thomas G. Stemberg
And that was what all the expressions felt like— masks. I didn't believe them. They were too thorough, too nuanced; they were never at odds with his subject matter.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
I believe that a proper education in grade school would achieve much more for the general public than getting an M.A. in the best college today ever would. You do not need millions of courses across decades and decades. That is a modern absurdity. It is the result of a worthless, self-perpetuating educational bureaucracy. Even with the explosion of knowledge, you can give people a proper, thorough education by the time they are a normal high school graduate.
~ Leonard Peikoff
A thorough inspection of the birthday suit revealed a number of holes.
~ Les Coleman