Careful Execution Quotes

One must ease the public into it - that's an art in itself.

If you're gonna do a job, do it properly.

After 2019, one thing that really stood out to me was, early on, not going too hard at the ball and allowing myself to get in without too much risk.

Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.

Big things are accomplished only through the perfection of minor details.

There is but one question ultimately to be asked respecting every line you draw, Is it right or wrong? If right, it most assuredly is not a "free" line, but an intensely continent, restrained and considered line; and the action of the hand in laying it is just as decisive, and just as "free" as the hand of a first-rate surgeon in a critical incision.

Writing, for me, is a little like wood carving. You find the lump of tree (the big central theme that gets you started), and you start cutting the shape that you think you want it to be. But you find, if you do it right, that the wood has a grain of its own (characters develop and present new insights, concentrated thinking about the story opens new avenues). If you're sensible, you work with the grain and, if you come across a knot hole, you incorporate that into the design. This is not the same as 'making it up as you go along'; it's a very careful process of control.

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly.

It is only with prudence, sagacity, and much dexterity that great aims are accomplished, and all obstacles surmounted. Otherwise nothing is accomplished.

I am trying to be a lot more careful - and to not miss easy balls.

If you're venturing into territory that is slightly operatic, it all has to be done so carefully.

I have always found that if, while creating an artwork, the artist constantly feels that some accident would occur if he is not careful, then it is a very significant moment and a significant work.

Perfection is the child of time.

I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently.

If you're gonna learn how to do something, you'd better learn to do it right.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

You have to be just as meticulous on television as on the stage.

Dot the i's, cross the t's, answer the phones promptly, send out errorless invoices, and in general never forget that the devil is in the details.

[George Saunders] is very precise about what he is doing. There isn't a thing left to chance.