Details Quotes
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If you look at coastlines, if you look at that them from far away, from an airplane, well, you don't see details, you see a certain complication. When you come closer, the complication becomes more local, but again continues. And come closer and closer and closer, the coastline becomes longer and longer and longer because it has more detail entering in.
Benoit Mandelbrot -
We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details.
Jeff Bezos
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Salinger is a master of the memorable detail, the seemingly random gesture, the debris of mundane daily operations, the stuff that is left out of any analysis.
Bill Vaughan -
Carelessness with details sinks more careers than anyone will admit.
Lois Wyse -
Whenever you do something that is in a continuous take, and something that we're not used to doing, because it was all in the details of if you don't make one move seem natural it can give away all of it.
Steve Buscemi -
My writing is an answer to the partisans of the many and it returns their attack with interest, with a view to showing that the hypothesis of the many, if examined sufficiently in detail, leads to even more ridiculous results than the hypothesis of the One.
Zeno of Elea -
The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details.
William Hazlitt -
It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression.
Cary Grant
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I also grew to love Nancy Reagan in a certain way. I learned more - certainly I learned more bad stuff that I had known about in greater detail, but I also got a lot of empathy.
Cynthia Nixon -
I'm a little vague on the details but aren't doughnuts just the most marvellous thing to ever come out of organised religion?
Catherine Webb -
The surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by being specific, definitive, and concrete. The greatest writers - Homer, Dante, Shakespeare - are effective largely because they deal in particulars and report the details that matter. Their words call up pictures.
William Strunk, Jr. -
It's probably a prerequisite for the job, or at least you have to have enough craziness to think that you can do the job. I think that [Donald Trump] has not spent a lot of time sweating the details of, you know, all the policies.
Barack Obama -
“He was accustomed to paying measurable heed only to those details that bore upon him most directly.”
T. R. Pearson -
Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.
Willa Cather
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There is no magic in magic, it's all in the details.
Walt Disney -
If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.
Ernest Hemingway -
Different persons growing up in the same language are like different bushes trimmed and trained to take the shape of identical elephants. The anatomical details of twigs and branches will fulfill the elephantine form differently from bush to bush, but the overall outward results are alike.
Willard Van Orman Quine -
[E]very job is composed of many small details, any one of which, if overlooked, can create big problems later.
Napoleon Hill -
The joint development and cross-licensing agreement ... let's us avoid quibbling about technical details and move forward quickly.
George Fisher Cannibal Corpse -
The cost of oblivius daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realigment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse. Her reverie, once rich in plausible details, had become a passing silliness before the hard mass of the actual. It was difficult to come back.
Ian Mcewan
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Every new discovery in science brings with it a host of new problems, just as the invention of the automobile brought with it gas stations, roads, garages, mechanics, and a thousand other subsidiary details.
Banesh Hoffmann -
It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.
Vladimir Nabokov -
Through conscious beings the universe has generated self-awareness. This can be no trivial detail, no minor byproduct of mindless, purposeless forces. We are truly meant to be here.
Paul Davies -
The beauty of the natural world lies in the details.
Natalie Angier