Painstaking Quotes

43 quotes by 40 authors

Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care, much thought, practice and labour are… — Edward McKendree Bounds
Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even… — Elbert Hubbard
Genius is infinite painstaking. — Michelangelo
Having observed the forces of all things natural and celestial and having examined by painstaking investigation the sympathy among those things, brings into the open… — Giambattista della Porta
No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding.… — Twyla Tharp
There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand. I am practically industrious - painstaking, a workman to execute with perseverance… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
It takes skill to bring something you've imagined into the world: to use words to create believable lives, to select the colors and textures of… — Twyla Tharp
When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion. — Henri Matisse
Fiction, with its preference for what is small and might elsewhere seem irrelevant; its facility for smuggling us into another skin and allowing us to… — David Malouf
A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious. — Anton Chekhov
A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement. — Paul D. Boyer
No single achievement in science is possible without the painstaking work of the many hundreds who have built the foundation on which all new work… — Polykarp Kusch
My advice would be to write -never to stop writing, to keep it up all the time, to be painstaking about it, to write until… — Gabriel Fielding
I want to put a soul in a garment. I don't want my clothes to be perfect, because human beings are not perfect. You can… — Ann Demeulemeester
Great art is created only through diligent and painstaking effort to perfect and polish oneself. — Daisaku Ikeda
Let no Christian therefore, whether philosopher or theologian, embrace eagerly and lightly whatever novelty happens to be thought up from day to day, but rather… — Pope Pius XII
Command those that govern your house before all you household that they keep careful watch that all your household, within and without, be faithful, painstaking,… — Robert Grosseteste
Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that… — Robert Grosseteste
Even the most painstaking history is a bridge across an eternal mystery. — Bruce Catton
Nothing must be left to chance in a magical performance. Everything conducive to enhancing the mystery of the illusions must be arranged with painstaking care… — David Devant

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