She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the importance of attention to detail, even amidst confusion or lack of understanding.
Sinclair Lewis's quote illustrates the dedication and meticulousness with which an individual approaches their work, emphasizing that a profound respect for detailed tasks can exist even when one lacks complete understanding of those details. This suggests that valuing thoroughness is an essential aspect of commitment and diligence, showing that one can still excel while grappling with the complexities of their work.
In practice
In a presentation about process improvement, I shared the quote to emphasize the significance of focusing on details.
Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one's business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse; and that the pastor's sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which 'did a fellow good-- kept him in touch with Higher Things.
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods. Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just work.
It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
An intellectual, heartless man never becomes an inspired man. It is always the heart that speaks in the man of love; it discovers a greater instrument than intellect can give you, the instrument of inspiration.
It is not great talents God blesses so much as likeness to Jesus.
Genius must be born, and never can be taught.
The 2 master skills of life are: The Science of Achievement and The Art of Fulfillment.
While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk.
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