Best 804 quotes in «details quotes» category

As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and then fill in the episodes and amplify in detail.

A sure sign of an amateur is too much detail to compensate for too little life.

A tiny detail can make you feel completely different. I feel different if I wear something that I'm slightly uncomfortable in.

As soon as we surrender the principle that the state should not interfere in any questions touching on the individuals mode of life, we end by regulating and restricting the latter down to the smallest details.

Attention to detail is of utmost importance when you want to look good.

As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it.

Attention to detail is crucial in my roles as a real estate developer and principal of a lifestyle brand. Fine jewelry is especially intricate and requires a very well trained eye.

‎Be careful not to keep your eyes glued to detail. Stand far enough away to get a perspective of the whole.

Be awake to the details around you, but don't be self-conscious.

Because the beauty of the human body is that it hasn't a single muscle which doesn't serve its purpose; that there's not a line wasted; that every detail of it fits one idea, the idea of a man and the life of a man.

Ben Carson says his flat tax will be around 15 percent. And by God, if he ever shows you the details, you'll see how awesome and deficit-killing it is.

Beware of the person who can't be bothered by details.

Big things are accomplished only through the perfection of minor details.

By looking at the details of the DNA, it is possible to chart the flow of your ancestry from your ultimate grandmother to more modern times.

Aureliano not only understood by then, he also lived his brother’s experiences as something of his own, for on one occasion when the latter was explaining in great detail the mechanism of love, he interrupted him to ask: “What does it feel like?” José Arcadio gave an immediate reply: “It’s like an earthquake.

Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them over and over to yourself.

Being a rock star is being a rock star, I don't need to go into the details. What would you do if you were a rock star?

Biot, who assisted Laplace in revising it [The Mécanique Céleste] for the press, says that Laplace himself was frequently unable to recover the details in the chain of reasoning, and if satisfied that the conclusions were correct, he was content to insert the constantly recurring formula, 'Il est àisé a voir' [it is easy to see].

But Sergio Leone invented totally the way of, you know, the details, the eyes, the hands - fantastic.

But the participants [in war] never forgot the details of their experience, and like the Wandering Jew, they were condemned to remain their own history books, each containing a story they could not pass on to others and from which no one would learn anything of value.

But where do they find these lines in nature? I can only see luminous or obscure masses, planes that advance or planes that recede, reliefs or background. My eye never catches lines or details.

But you cant get all hung up on details when you are trying to survive.

By looking into more details of American history, we can make more sense of what's happening today.

Carbon is, as may easily be shown and as I shall explain in greater detail later, tetrabasic or tetratomic, that is 1 atom of carbon = C = 12 is equivalent to 4 At.H.

Carelessness with details sinks more careers than anyone will admit.

Caress the detail, the divine detail.

Chef Matt Accarrino has the best pasta in San Francisco, and Shelley Lindgren is one of my favorite sommeliers. Their attention to detail in the service, food, and amazing wines will blow anyone away.

Clutter is not an attribute of information, clutter is a failure of design...fix the design rather than stripping all the detail out of the map.

By using the systems archetypes we can learn how to “structure” the details into a coherent picture of the forces at play.

Children don't make judgments about which details are important... a child captures them all.

Come to think of it, an Aes Sedai would probably follow a man off a cliff, too, if only to explain to him - in detail - all the things he was doing incorrectly in the way he went about killing himself.

Cold Case Files and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can’t stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can’t fit on a bumper sticker.

Comedy historians take note: this Gottfried character doesn't have the best eye for detail - and, for a Jew, he doesn't have the best eye for retail, either.

Defeat Them in Detail: The Divide and Conquer Strategy. Look at the parts and determine how to control the individual parts, create dissension and leverage it.

Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.

Details are the Life of Prose.

Details are all that matters; God dwells in these and you never get to see Him if you don't struggle to get them right.

Details are our business as writers. Your heart leaps when you see a detail that can go somewhere

Disney is thrilling and informative and important and beautiful and suspect. Butts was a detail I observed later and definitely ties in. I suppose I was programmed, yeah.

Dancing is so great because there are all the little details, and the little movements, and the little muscles that are working without you even realizing.

Detail is the heart of realism, and the fatty degeneration of art.

Details create the big picture.

Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail; in this way you let the lava grow cool.

Do not fight the thing in detail: turn from it. Look ONLY at your Lord. Sing. Read. Work.

Don't go into great detail describing places and things, unless you're ­Margaret Atwood and can paint scenes with language. You don't want descriptions that bring the action, the flow of the story, to a standstill.

Don't be so familiar and so much into the details. Keep people dreaming. Close the window, and make them wonder.

Don’t you see?” I said. “He could change every detail, but he couldn’t change her.” “But why?” His obtuseness frustrated me. “Because he was in love with her!” I said. “Because, to him, she was the only thing that was real.

Don't start with the details. Start with the key ideas, and in a hierarchical fashion, form the details around these larger notions.

Dot the i's, cross the t's, answer the phones promptly, send out errorless invoices, and in general never forget that the devil is in the details.