Quotes About Checklists

#1. It is common to misconceive how checklists function in complex lines of work. They are not comprehensive how-to guides, whether for building a skyscraper or getting a plane out of trouble. They are quick and simple tools aimed to buttress the skills of expert professionals. And

Atul Gawande

#2. I love plans. Checklists, spreadsheets, timelines. I am literally passionate about that stuff.

Claire Kingsley

#3. Designers of electronic charting systems don't seem to understand that checklists themselves are not the innovation, because checklists are not substitutes for care. The real innovation is having staff use lists to consistently create the safest and highest-quality clinical environment possible.

Theresa Brown

#4. When developing a Windows Store business app you should consult the following checklists to accelerate development while ensuring that a maintainable and testable app is produced.

Anonymous

#5. Rule, once again, is that every minute spent in planning and creating checklists will save you ten minutes in execution and getting the job done. This

Brian Tracy

#6. Living loved, we relax our expectations, our efforts, our strivings, our rules, our spine, our breath, our plans, our job descriptions and checklists; we step off the treadmill of the world and the treadmill of religious performance. We are not the authors of our redemption.

Sarah Bessey

#7. And a surfeit of checklists, coupled with unscrupulous drug reps, is, Gary said, a dreadful combination. There

Jon Ronson

#8. In these modes, energy is at best regarded by architects as a set of necessary quantifications, bureaucratic mandates, and checklists rather than as a fundamental agent in novel formations of architecture.

William W. Braham

#9. Making checklists of things you're looking for in a person is the numero uno thing you can do to guarantee you'll be alone forever.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#10. Checklists seem to provide protection against such failures. They remind us of the minimum necessary steps and make them explicit. They not only offer the possibility of verification but also instill a kind of discipline of higher performance.

Atul Gawande

#11. No matter how expert you may be, well-designed checklists can improve outcomes.

Steven Levitt

#12. Awareness, even at a subconscious level, beats fancy checklists without it, track or you will fail.

Tim Ferriss

#13. My books are always tactical, bullet lists, this is what you need to do because I'm trying to appeal to people who are trying to change the world and they need checklists.

Guy Kawasaki

#14. Before taxiing out to the runway, we paused again for five more checks: whether anti-icing was necessary and completed, the autobrakes were set, the flight controls were checked, the ground equipment was cleared, and no warning lights were on. The three checklists

Atul Gawande

#15. Turning love into a commodity contributed greatly to the expansion of modern alienation ... It is the love of an actual person that transgresses the checklists and lets us accept another as they actually are.

Rod Dubey

#16. Under conditions of complexity, not only are checklists a help, they are required for success.

Atul Gawande

#17. It's almost therapeutic driving there and driving back (to North Carolina), with the time you get to think about things as well as create checklists.

Kurt Busch

#18. How often does it work out that people make their checklists of what they want in a partner and then go out and fall for precisely that person?

Tawna Fenske

#19. We're all in this alone.

Lily Tomlin

#20. Time clocks rob the world of wild possibility. That's what they're for.

Stephanie Mills

#21. Art teaches you the philosophy of life, and if you can't learn it from art, you can't learn it at all. It shows you that there is no perfection. There is light, and there is shadow. Everything is in half tint.

William Morris Hunt

#22. 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

#23. Packing lunches and going over menus is a great way to make small changes in the way your kids eat.

Marcus Samuelsson

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

Brian Tracy

#25. I was being resisted by millions of tiny crystals, I knew, but the strength of their chemical bonds was enormous. If all of us could be like snow, I thought, how happy we should be.

Alan Bradley

#26. 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

#27. Devotion means who you are should merge with what you are doing. Otherwise, whatever your activity may be, it will not be of any great significance.

Jaggi Vasudev

#28. Siri has proven to us that people want to relate to the phone in a different way.

Tim Cook

#29. As an audience member, I like watching Rupert as an actor when he's most playful, ... I think Rupert is really adept at comedy I think that's where his strength lies.

Benjamin Bratt