Quotes on Thoroughness

The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.

Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.

She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.

Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us.

Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness.