Checklist Quotes

“When in doubt, always compliment a woman's eyeliner application.”
― Lindsey Kelk, Always the Bridesmaid

“We are besieged by simple problems.... Checklists can provide protection”
― Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

“Toni Morrison said that if you can't find the book you want to read, write it. So I did! It's high time to give our heroines a different kind of happy ending.”
― Diane Claire Benant, Just Jenna: How hard can it be to last a week without a man?

“So for any new checklist created from scratch, you have to pick the type that makes the most sense for the situation.
The checklist cannot be lengthy. A rule of thumb some use is to keep it to between five and nine items, which is the limit of working memory.”
― Atul Gawande

“Check your life. Not boxes.”
― Richie Norton

“Checklist - A list of items to help you produce results with speed and zero errors.”
― Chinmai Swamy

“Standing on the tube, Coe was studying his fellow passengers, gauging their identities, There was a checklist he'd memorized, a crib sheet on how to spot a terrorist; and there was another checklist, allowing for the possibility that terrorists might have got hold of the first checklist and adapted their behavior accordingly, and Coe had memorized this too. And he was mentally running through them, scoring his fellow travelers, when it struck him there was conceivably a checklist for spotting members of the security services, and he was doubtless ticking all the right boxes himself...The thought made him want to giggle, which itself was on one of the checklists.”
― Mick Herron, The List

“When the time comes for someone to step in and become the expert on your life, you have the ability to prepare them.”
― Wendy Michelle Cappola

“Under conditions of complexity, not only are checklists a help, they are required for success. There must always be room for judgment, but judgment aided, and even enhanced, by procedure.”
― Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

“…the reason for the delay was usually not laziness or unwillingness, the reason is more often that the necessary knowledge has not been translated into a simple, usable and systematic form. (regarding delaying adoption of life-saving treatments for at least half of American patients by a whopping 17 years, according to studies.)”
― Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

“When we look closely, we recognize the same balls being dropped, over and over, even by those of great ability and determination. We know the patterns. We see the costs. It’s time to try something else. Try a checklist.”
― Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

“I have everything you’ve been searching for in a woman, but I won’t be confined to a list of boxes. I’m too much, too unique, to be reduced to a checklist.”
― Marion Bekoe

“A checklist can look like control until the first storm tests the paper.”
― Shamail Aijaz, The Art of Risk: How Smart Businesses Prevent Chaos Before It Happens