Frank Herbert Quotes

Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly.

People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.

If you can't do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.

I am careful with my material and presentation.

I measure everything, because I always think that if I've spent so much time making sure this recipe was exactly the way I want it, why would I want to throw things into a pot?

Everything that David Chase does has a tremendous amount of specificity. He is very detail oriented.

That's all I cared about too, was getting it right.

I just think if you're going to do something, do it properly.

Ye have a watch; go your way, make it as sure as ye can.

It is always better to be inefficient and correct than to be incorrect and efficient.

I don't care if it's the slow way; I just want to do it the right way.

I don't do anything without measuring 10 times and cutting once.

Even the details of a rifle, which are nothing but mechanical, if they are made carefully, with attention, become beautiful, satisfying.

Precision matters, breh.

If you work in a certain manner, you don't make mistakes.

Try to be accurate about stuff.

My heart belongs to the details. I actually always found them to be more important than the big picture. Nothing works without details. They are everything, the baseline of quality.

Details matter, it's worth waiting to get it right.

The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.

If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.

Accuracy is essential to beauty.

It is no great advantage to possess a quick wit, if it is not correct; the perfection is not speed but uniformity.

You keep on going until you get it as close to being right as the time and patience of others will allow.

I want people to understand that this is a very calibrated image [Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ], where point by point, very little is left to chance.

To begin, at the beginning.