"Doing a thing well is often a waste…" — Robert Byrne

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• They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should… — Ginger Baker
• The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it… — John Bunyan
• They used to give us a day-it was called International Women's Day. In 1975 they gave us a year, the… — Bella Abzug
• A thing well done is worth doing. — Hugh Leonard
• To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• A great deal of the joy of life consists in doing perfectly, or at least to the best of one's… — William Matthews
• A thing well said will be wit in all languages. — John Dryden
• Say a thing well and it will be remembered-and so too will you. — Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
• Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in… — Plato
• Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another. — Sophocles
• In an age of specialization people are proud to be able to do one thing well, but if that is… — Dennis Flanagan
• Doing the right thing is important, which is where strategy comes in. But doing that thing well—execution—is what sets companies… — Jeffrey Pfeffer

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