Quotes About Thoroughness

#1. If you care to be a master or to make a true success of your profession, the smallest detail of your work must be done with thoroughness. To be thorough in medicine means that in the ever alluring present, we do not forget the past.

David Murray Cowie

#2. Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#3. I love thoroughness. I respect people that do a job well.

Micah Lexier

#4. Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Elbert Hubbard

#5. Employ every economy consistent with thoroughness, accuracy and reliability.

Arthur C. Nielsen

#6. She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.

Sinclair Lewis

#7. They knew the difference between thoroughness and overkill. It was like Jay Gatsby's library: the books were real, but the pages were uncut.

Haruki Murakami

#8. Fortunately, when I was in the palace, I got some practice stabbing him in the heart. This time, I was much better at it. And did it ten times instead of once. Then cut off his head." "I always thought the secret of your success was your thoroughness.

Edward W. Robertson

#9. Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.

Ezekiel Emanuel

#10. Greenwood Insurance Group looks out for our company, and our employees. Their thoroughness and ability to shop for the best policies at the best prices shows me that they care about our business - long term.

Matthew Ford

#11. To be a biographer is a somewhat peculiar endeavor. It seems to me it requires not only the tact, patience, and thoroughness of a scholar but the stamina of a horse.

Nancy Milford

#12. The thing that impressed itself most on me in Holland was the thoroughness of the agriculture and the excellence of the Holstein cattle. I

Booker T. Washington

#13. The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.

Carl Bernstein

#14. Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.

William Osler

#15. Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us.

Arthur C. Nielsen

#16. Cookery means ... English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness.

John Ruskin

#17. Reaching toward perfection in any one thing should lift us higher in all things; it should beget a habit of application and thoroughness.

Julia McNair Wright

#18. One recent menu for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo consisted of orange glazed chicken, fresh fruit crepe, steamed peas and mushrooms, and rice pilaf. Sounds like the sort of thing you'd get at Windows on the World - if it still existed.

Ann Coulter

#19. There are people who try to look as if they are doing a good and thorough job, and then there are the people who actually damn well do it, for its own sake.

John D. MacDonald

#20. She wasn't wrong, which wasn't the same as the idea being a wise one.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#21. The trouble with the world was that nobody stopped or took any care.

Flannery O'Connor

#22. Just because you've got a mind like a hammer doesn't mean you have to treat everyone else like a nail

Terry Pratchett

#23. There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life.

Henri Bergson

#24. Alice's illness had turned her into the center of mass around which the rest of the family moved in anxious orbits, like unstable planets.

Lisa Kleypas

#25. When our thoughts - which bring actions - are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be.

George Washington Carver