Kalpana Chawla Quotes

The best is the enemy of the good.

Practice quality, and you get better at quality. But quality takes time, so by working solely on quality, you end up losing something else that's important - speed.

I think that's what happens when you get scared, and you're rushing, and you don't have time. Rather than cut things out and take a chance, and build things up you think are working, you cut everything down a little bit, and everything sort of suffers.

I don't understand why people in this country are so bent on doing the 'perfect', when you have something that is good and makes sense from a cost-benefit point of view.

If it were better, it wouldn't be as good.

I've always zoomed through life in a vain attempt to keep up with my sprinting brain. If I have to choose between doing something quickly and doing it right, I often select the speedier option.

Short cuts make long delays.

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.

Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.

When you hurry you're more apt to make mistakes. But you have to be quick. If you're not quick you can't get things done.

Too often ... in statecraft the object is to reach an agreement, which is only sometime—not always—the way to reach a result.

He takes the second step before the first

Sometimes you have to give up one good in order to get another good.

An opportunity missed once will present itself again, whereas a too hasty action can never be recalled.

Haste is blind and improvident.

Every good cause is worth some inefficiency

Comfort? If a choice has to be made between style and comfort, style wins every time.

I believe when you rush your work, you're not thinking about what you're doing. That's when you make mistakes.

I feel like if you rush anything, it's never complete and it's never, never what you want it to be.

If you compromise, and then you succeed, that's another kind of feeling. But if you compromise and fail, it's two failures at least.

Every shortcut has a price usually greater than the reward.

Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.

Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.

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

You cannot eat your cake and have it.