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.
If you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule-stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite.
Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow.
it's not my business," Scrooge returned. "It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly.
Half-heartedness doesn't reach into majesty. You set out to find God, but then you keep stopping for long periods at meanspirited roadhouses.
The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.
Every idea has to become broad till it covers the whole of this world, every aspiration must go on increasing till it has engulfed the whole of humanity, nay, the whole of life, within its scope.
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