meticulous approach Quotes

Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be.

A perfectionist has to take his time.

Attention to detail can't be (and never is) added later. It's an entire development philosophy, methodology, and culture.

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.

Details create success.

I'd rather have a second-best decision diligently pursued than a first-best decision lackadaisically pursued.

I would say that I don't make music quickly; like, my process has been very slow, and my bar is very high, and I don't really rush to make music just to get something out there.

I want to be my usual painstaking, cautious, slow, conservative self in analyzing it.

I'm not a speed writer. I write slowly and revise obsessively. The end result tends to be good. That's where my strength is.

Learning to fly an airplane taught me a way of thinking, an approach to problem-solving that was applicable and effective. Pilots are very methodical and meticulous, and artists tend not to be.

We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.

I am someone who places great value on the detail. That was always the case, even in my days as a racing driver.

Throughout my career, especially the second half of my career, I was always nerdy or anal when it came to how I prepared for my matches.

I like being meticulous and it's quite difficult as an actor to have that much control.

So, the result though is by the time I've got something, it's been worked over so many times that although I do make changes as the end, often by the time I've gotten it, it's pretty much completed.

They are very wary people in their bargaining, and will not lose one spark of gold of any value. They use weights and measures, and are very circumspect in occupying the same.

When I write, I strain with every wizened fibre of my weathered frame to analyze every possible angle of any given subject.

I'm one of those actors where usually I'll read a script, and then I'll have a flurry of notes. I'll ask a hundred questions about things, and really get in there and examine it.

So, they have the same vibe of like that fun kind of spirit, but this one's a lot more serious. It's like, get it done, get it done right, you know? It's got to be perfect. We definitely do lots of takes on this.