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 — 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 — any job — one must feel that he owns it, and act as though he will remain in that job forever.
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already. The ground of practice is you or me or whoever we are right now, just as we are. That’s the ground, that’s what we study, that’s what we come to know with tremendous curiosity and interest.
Opinion-sharing sessions are like junk food: they fill you up with starch and leave you feeling both sated and hungry. A sustained inquiry into the truth of a matter is an almost athletic experience; it may exhaust you, but it also improves you.
Insight into universal nature provides an intellectual delight and sense of freedom that no blows of fate and no evil can destroy.
One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass.
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.
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