Checklist Quotes

#1. In fact, I can't even tell if I'm breathing. That's number one on the "How do I know if I'm alive?" checklist.

Rick Yancey

#2. I think that, back in the day, there used to be a lot of horror films that kind of had a checklist of what went into making the 'perfect horror film', and I think now people are raising the bar in the industry, as far as the types of horror films that are being made.

Elisha Cuthbert

#3. I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are not. Unlike much art of the past decade, Grotjahn isn't simply working from a prescribed checklist of academically acceptable, curator-approved 'isms' and twists.

Jerry Saltz

#4. Develop a checklist of items you always want with you when camping or traveling.

Beth Beutler

#5. I think he saw his checklist as something pure - innocent as only science can be - but the humans who administered it as masses of weird prejudices and crazy predispositions. When

Jon Ronson

#6. I told Khaled you the best but I'm the bestest. Better run for cover if your name is on my checklist.

Nicki Minaj

#7. Seeking with all of your heart requires more than just the routine Christian good girl checklist.

Lysa TerKeurst

#8. It's like you have a checklist for dangerous criminals tucked into your pocket, and you won't be satisfied until you've had a personal encounter with each.

Charlie N. Holmberg

#9. I don't think we're ever going to be in a position where we can say this is the template, this is the checklist, that must be met [for intervention].

Peter MacKay

#10. I watch a lot of astronaut movies ... Mostly Star Wars. And even Han and Chewie use a checklist.

Jon Stewart

#11. But something, somehow, had made all these paths converge. You couldn't find it on a checklist, or work it into the equation. It just happened.

Sarah Dessen

#12. Then life began, and since then we remember each dumpster, abandoned house, and foot-chase by retail security. At night, after running around, plotting and scheming, our checklist items all crossed out, we paused to think - 'What to do tomorrow?' and the answer was always, 'As we please ...

CrimethInc.

#13. You need a different checklist and different mental models for different companies. I can never make it easy by saying, 'Here are three things.' You have to derive it yourself to ingrain it in your head for the rest of your life.

Charlie Munger

#14. When I started Cove, I spoke to three immigration lawyers who gave me a long checklist of things to do before my company could hire immigrants.

Ruchi Sanghvi

#15. He fulfilled the bipolar checklist. See? And so they gave him some pretty heavy-duty medication. It slowed him way down, to a drooling fat kid. And they declared the meds a success." It

Jon Ronson

#16. I've got a checklist of things I want - including a Brit, a Grammy, an Oscar and a white poodle. Sometimes it gets lonely, and I want a baby too! I'm ticking things off the list.

Joss Stone

#17. Just ticking boxes is not the ultimate goal here. Embracing a culture of teamwork and discipline is. And if we recognised the opportunity, the two-minute WHO checklist is just a start.

Atul Gawande

#18. So given a Time-Turner, I'd tell my 21 self that personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or archievement. Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

#19. And there is such a strategy - though it will seem almost ridiculous in its simplicity, maybe even crazy to those of us who have spent years carefully developing ever more advanced skills and technologies. It is a checklist.

Atul Gawande

#20. In promotional mode, every day is a series of decisions. You can easily fill up your day with checklist stuff.

Adam Schlesinger

#21. No wise pilot, no matter how great his talent and experience, fails to use his checklist.

Charlie Munger

#22. How many people, how many of us want to get on an airplane where you know only, only 20% of the pilots use the checklist? Why would you do that? I think we should be outraged because the technology is there, it's totally available. We're just not using it yet.

William Davis

#23. The law is not a checklist we keep; it is a benchmark we fail.

Timothy Keller

#24. That's what college is for - getting as many bad decisions as possible out of the way before you're forced into the real world. I keep a checklist of 'em on the wall in my room.

Jeph Jacques

#25. Many futurists use a checklist approach to make sure they're covering a sufficiently wide set of topics in terms of both research and brainstorming during a foresight exercise.

Jamais Cascio

#26. The book also includes tools including Website Resources, Baby Feeding/Diaper Schedule, Mom Medicine Schedule, Baby Clothes Size Chart, Baby Sitter Sheet, Short Hospital Bag Checklist, After Recovery Kit, Baby Medicine Basket Items, and 10 Things to Know When Traveling with a baby.

Lisa M. Rusczyk

#27. And the worst way to treat someone hoping to be heard is to walk in with a clipboard and a checklist.

Nishant Kothary

#28. Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

#29. The checklist is one of the most high powered productivity tool ever discovered.

Brian Tracy

#30. Very few checklist liberals will focus on transformational work if they are rewarded or punished only for their transactional work.

Eric Schneiderman

#31. So for any new checklist created from scratch, you have to pick the type that makes the most sense for the situation.
The checklist cannot be lengthy. A rule of thumb some use is to keep it to between five and nine items, which is the limit of working memory.

Atul Gawande

#32. I'm the type to over-analyze everything. If I was to rob a house, I'd have a checklist to make sure nothing goes wrong.

Israel Broussard

#33. I nodded. It was his checklist. Every time we were together we went through this. He ran down his list of people, events, even actual objects that were in my life.

A.M. Homes

#34. There are three capitals of entertainment in the world: Las Vegas, New York and London. So far the only one I truly conquered is Vegas. New York and London are still on my checklist.

Guy Laliberte

#35. I have a checklist of things I'd like to do in movies. One of them is get possessed. Die on a deathbed with a ghostly pallor - that's on my list.

Talulah Riley

#36. I mean at the world as a checklist. Once you got to a place, you check them off and if you love the spot, you might check it off twice. You'll always find your way to go back to those places.

Dhani Jones

#37. Anyone who ever loves anyone truly loves them because of their indefinable essence, not because they conform to some checklist.

Kim Wilkins

#38. I woke up an hour before I was supposed to, and started going over the mental checklist: where do I go from here, what do I do? I don't remember eating anything at all, just going through the physical, getting into the suit. We practiced that so much, it was all rote.

Alan Shepard

#39. Happiness isn't found in some finite checklist of goals that we can diligently complete and then coast. It's how we live our lives in the process. That's why the four pillars of happiness are faith, family, community and meaningful work. Those are priorities we have to keep investing in.

Arthur C. Brooks

#40. He should have made a checklist for every step of this transformational journey to radical self-expression.

Armistead Maupin

#41. Everything in life is a checklist, whether it's building a birdhouse or building a kitchen. If you don't have a checklist, you're much more likely to forget something.

Brian Tracy

#42. Just using a checklist requires [doctors] to embrace different values from ones we've had, like humility, discipline, teamwork.

Atul Gawande

#43. Jesus says you can read the Bible as a checklist, but if you do, you miss the whole point.

Jefferson Bethke

#44. Often people see doctrines as a checklist. Here are the following nineteen truths which you've got to believe to be a good sound Christian.

N. T. Wright

#45. To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making pictures.

Harry Callahan

#46. Gary would become my first perfect score - a 40 out of 40 on the Psychopathy Checklist, one of only a handful that I would find in the next twenty years.

Kent A. Kiehl

#47. Do this all day long: run through a mental checklist that changes unpredictably. Of course I have things written down, but nurses spend the shift recalibrating the tasks we have and their urgency.

Theresa Brown

#48. Because I was never a 'where do you see yourself in five years' person. I had no idea, and I didn't have a checklist, which really creates a lot less stress in your life.

Jennifer Aniston

#49. Instead they choose to accept their fallibilities. They recognised the simplicity and power of using a checklist.

Atul Gawande

#50. Following all the rules leaves a completed checklist. Following your heart achieves a completed you.

Ray A. Davis

#51. A NASA astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut can't be creative. He has to follow a predetermined detailed checklist written by an engineer and if he gets a little creative he'll never fly again.

Burt Rutan

#52. You get a checklist, and then you just sort of ride herd on it. It's just a few items on a single sheet of paper.

Kirk Kerkorian

#53. Among wilderness survival tips, punching a wild animal in the face probably isn't on a checklist.

Kat Kruger

#54. Live. How many of us need to be reminded that living has nothing to do with trying to be as good as someone else, or trying to fit into some category, or filling in the blanks on some stupid checklist. That it has nothing to do with punishing yourself for past mistakes.

Suzanne Selfors

#55. up to twist her belly into knots. When it did, she'd just have to find a way to uncoil them until there was time, until there was a place. She had a whole checklist of priorities ahead of that one. On

Nora Roberts

#56. When in doubt, always compliment a woman's eyeliner application.

Lindsey Kelk