Painstaking Quotes

43 Painstaking quotes by 40 unique authors

The Shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To… — Carl Jung
Bad habits are easy and discipline is hard-and â€œeasyâ€ is where people gravitate. A good work ethic requires a painstaking daily effort. Easy typically leads… — Tony Horton
A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life. — Frank Ocean
No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin. — Richard Owen
A lot of people feel that there is less artistry involved in cartoon making unless they have painstaking control of each frame. — Lev Yilmaz
Because as any writer will tell you, an IDEA for a book is like falling in love, it's all wild emotion and headlong rush, but… — Ben H. Winters
Stanley Kubrick, I had been told, hates interviews. It's hard to know what to expect of the man if you've only seen his films. One… — Tim Cahill
There are no shortcuts to victory. We must commit ourselves to the slow, painstaking work of foreign policy day by day and year by year. — Richard Lugar
Education is a complex, multifaceted, and painstaking process, and being gifted does not make this less so. — Terence Tao
Dialogue starts from the courageous willingness to know and be known by others. It is the painstaking and persistent effort to remove all obstacles that… — Daisaku Ikeda
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention - all interest me. — Susan Orlean
As someone who has spent many years marveling at the brilliant and painstaking work of the doctors, scientists and researchers at St. Jude, I can… — Marlo Thomas
Not bad, not bad at all," Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text. — Umberto Eco
Several times I asked myself, "Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it… — Leo Tolstoy
I feel such a creative force in me: I am convinced that there will be a time when, let us say, I will make something… — Vincent Van Gogh
The only thing more dangerous then a vampire crazed with blood lust was a vampire crazed with anything else. All the meticulous single-mindedness that went… — Terry Pratchett
The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses — Arthur Rimbaud
There is in every child a painstaking teacher so skillful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. The… — Maria Montessori
The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the… — John Jay Chapman

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