Quotes about Methodical

I've always had a 'Work hard, play hard' attitude to life - I still do - but sometimes you get involved in something that needs a calm, methodical approach.

He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.

Progress through cautious, well founded experiments.

When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a novel. Writing poetry is a state of free float.

I'm a very methodical writer. Before computers, I used reams of paper and stacks of index cards.

First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.

I think it remains a film-by-film process, and since I am relatively selective and slow, it can take a while.

If you were asked to spell the name Antoninus, would you rap out each letter at the top of voice, and then, if your hearers grew angry, grow angry yourself in turn? Rather, would you not proceed to enumerate the several letters quietly one by one? Well then; remember that here in life every piece of duty is likewise made up of its separate items. Pay careful attention to each of these, without fuss and without returning temper for temper, and so ensure the methodical completion of your task.

If someone asked you how to write your name, would you clench your teeth and spit out the letters one by one? If he lost his temper, would you lose yours as well? Or would you just spell out the individual letters? Remember—your responsibilities can be broken down into individual parts as well. Concentrate on those, and finish the job methodically—without getting stirred up or meeting anger with anger.

No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing.

The whole Epistle is so methodical, that even its very beginning is framed according to the rules of art.