Thorough Quotes

The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.

I swing between procrastination and being really thorough so either way things aren't getting done quickly.

To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness.

Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A heart made selfish by the contest for wealth is like a citadel stormed in war, utterly shattered.

I'm not interested in the ego trip of creating or not creating. I'm interested in selling a magazine. Rock-bottom, I sell magazines. I'm a thorough professional who does his job.

Our pat-down approach is very similar to what is being utilized in Europe and, as we know, around the world. It's even much more thorough in other parts of the world.

I have a thorough understanding of nutrition, and I feed my body only foods that support health.

The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts. [Lat., Paupertas . . . omnes artes perdocet.]

Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.

Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.

Adversity is an effective, thorough and highly personalized teacher.

The reform [of the civil service] should be thorough, radical, and complete.

For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect and its order of magnitude were established.

You don't look at it as the size of the role. Quantity is not the point. You can be as thorough in 30 seconds as you can in three hours.

Sometimes I hate having a conscience, and a stupidly thorough sense of honor.

It is by a thorough knowledge of the whole subject that [people] are enabled to judge correctly of the past and to give a proper direction to the future.

Experience is a thorough teacher.

In the moral world there is nothing impossible if we can bring a thorough will to it. Man can do everything with himself, but he must not attempt to do too much with others.

Your own imagination as to the true ability of the permaculture design system, you need to trust the system and stick to main frame basics with profound and thorough thinking while trusting yourself.

There are no more thorough prudes than those who have some little secret to hide.

I want to make a summing up, brief and to the point, but thorough. I have never suppressed a word in my books out of regard for other people and their prejudices.

Love is a great thing, yea, a great and thorough good. By itself it makes what is heavy light; and bears evenly all that is uneven.

The discovery of orgone energy was made through consistent, thorough study of energy functions, first in the realm of the psyche, and later in the realm of biological functioning.

Thoroughly to believe in one's own self, so one's self were thorough, were to do great things.

Competition is warfare. Mostly it is played by prescribed rules--there is a sort of Geneva Convention for competition--but it's thorough and often brutal.

For a thorough understanding of rowing, for the what, the how and the why, the books making up Peter Mallory’s The Sport of Rowing certainly do it all.

Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us.

Nobody who is afraid of laughing, and heartily too, at his friend, can be said to have a true and thorough love for him.

The politicians and the religious leaders and the weapons scientists have been at it for a long time and they've made a thorough mess of it. I mean, we're in deep trouble.

A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other people think is proper to remember.

Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability.

Call me a troglodyte; I'd rather peruse those photos alongside my sweetheart, catch the newspaper on the way to work, and page thorough a real book.

The state team is committed to working with our federal partners in meeting the needs of Floridians who were affected by Hurricane Wilma. We want to be as thorough as possible in this vital endeavor.

I think I write what's interesting to me, and so if I'm reading I like to have a very thorough idea of a character in a book that's by someone else.

I am a frighteningly thorough person.

My friends have always called me 'Mr. Thorough,' in that when I get into something, I become obsessed with it.

One of the very first things I will do is to order a thorough review of our cyberdefenses and weaknesses.

I am a very thorough person.

John Lott has done the most extensive, thorough and sophisticated study we have on the effects of loosening gun control laws.

As far as missile defense is concerned, a very thorough consultation process is underway.

It is my experience that the short path to the simple and precise English needed by a man of science lies thorough the tongues of Homer and Vergil.

There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.

I do not think that any thorough-going modification of college curriculum would be possible without a modification of the methods of instruction.

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In light of the recent controversy surrounding foreign management of U.S. Ports, a thorough review of foreign management of U.S. airports needs to occur.

In this apparatus is nothing new but its simplicity and thorough trustworthiness. On his revolutionary method of organic analysis.

In a well-run mental household there ought to be a thorough cleaning at the threshold of consciousness a few times a year.

The thorough bred against a clamor, or rather the Porsche vs. the pickup truck.

Every successful cancer treatment includes the following three ingredients: thorough detoxification, a change of diet and mental or spiritual work.