Details Quotes
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Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail.
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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.
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I'm a little vague on the details but aren't doughnuts just the most marvellous thing to ever come out of organised religion?
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“He was accustomed to paying measurable heed only to those details that bore upon him most directly.”
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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.
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We distract ourselves with details. It's a way of coping.
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Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.
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[E]very job is composed of many small details, any one of which, if overlooked, can create big problems later.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Everything is important- that success is in the details.
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I love intimate details like lingerie, something like a gorgeous silk stocking or exquisite slipper.
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If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.
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The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering details that you had made up upon the spur of the moment.
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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
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The essential feature of statistics is a prudent and systematic ignoring of details.
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It seems that nearly every week there is a problem where information is leaked or computers hacked. I'm conscious of keeping my details as safe as possible. I might be old but I'm still bright and prefer to go into my local branch and see a face.
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I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.
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There is no magic in magic, it's all in the details.
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I'm fascinated by what people will do to each other. Actually, I'm sort of interested in the gory details of life.
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Treating 'water' as a name of a single scattered object is not intended to enable us to dispense with general terms and plurality of reference. Scatter is in fact an inconsequential detail.
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You can’t look too far ahead. Do that and you’ll lose sight of what you’re doing and stumble. I’m not saying you should focus solely on the details right in front of you, mind you. You’ve got to look ahead a bit or else you’ll bump into something. You’ve got to conform to the proper order and at the same time keep an eye out for what’s ahead. That’s critical, no matter what you’re doing.
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I see in [George H. W.] Bush a striving to be Reagan-like in the sense of having a big vision, and eschewing small details.
