The Devil is in the details, but so is salvation.
Interpretation
Attention to detail is crucial, as it can lead to both problems and solutions.
This quote emphasizes the importance of details in any task or project. While neglecting small details can lead to failure and difficulties, paying close attention to them can also lead to clarity, understanding, and ultimately success or salvation in challenging situations.
In practice
In a presentation, you might say 'Remember, the devil is in the details, but so is salvation' to encourage your team to focus on specifics.
Responsibility is a unique concept... You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you... If responsibility is rightfully yours, no evasion, or ignorance or passing the blame can shift the burden to someone else. Unless you can point your finger at the man who is responsible when something goes wrong, then you have never had anyone really responsible.
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience. Once implemented they can be easily overturned or subverted through apathy or lack of follow-up, so a continuous effort is required.
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience.
What it takes to do a job will not be learned from management courses. It is principally a matter of experience, the proper attitude, and common sense β none of which can be taught in a classroom... Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done.
I believe it is the duty of each of us to act as if the fate of the world depended on him. Admittedly, one man by himself cannot do the job. However, one man can make a difference. We must live for the future of the human race, and not for our own comfort or success.
When doing a job β any job β one must feel that he owns it, and act as though he will remain in that job forever.
You are free when you gain back yourself,β Madame Wu said. βYou can be as free within these walls as you could be in the whole world. And how could you be free if, however far you wander, you still carry inside yourself the constant thought of him? See where you belong in the stream of life. Let it flow through you, cool and strong. Do not dam it with your two hands, lest he break the dam and so escape you. Let him go free, and you will be free.
Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; and where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair, there is no hope.
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