Quotes and Sayings About Details
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Every shrink knows that it's not the event itself but how you respond to it that tells the story. Take ten assorted individuals, expose them all to the same life trial, and they will each suffuse it with exquisite personal detail and meaning.
-- A.S.A. HarrisonSource : A.S.A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife”, p.240, Hachette UK
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I read everything I could find: books and online. Sometimes bigger revelations came to me through finer details or something that you wouldn't pick up just by surface reading.
-- Abbie CornishSource : "'Klondike's' Abbie Cornish, Johnny Simmons on Finding Gold in History". Interview with Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 22, 2014.
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Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
Back when I was a professional model-maker at Industrial Light & Magic, my specialty was hard-edged construction - spaceships, miniature sets, and architectural stuff. These objects were sometimes just 12 inches across yet needed enough detail to fill a movie screen.
-- Adam Savage -
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The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
-- Adam Smith -
My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
-- Adam Weishaupt -
May you find INSPIRATION in the big picture, but may you find LOVE in the details.
-- Adrienne Maloof -
That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother's palm and fingertips, he was also removing all traces of any tiny leftover parts, and suddenly a ritual which I'd always found incestuous and gross seemed to me more like a desperate act on Joseph's part to get out, to leave, to extract every little last remnant and bring it into open air.
-- Aimee Bender -
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For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it's bloodless, a little too fictional.
-- Aimee Mann -
The insistence on complete certainty about the full details of global warming-the most serious threat we have ever faced-is actually an effort to avoid facing the awful, uncomfortable truth: that we must act boldly, decisively, comprehensively, and quickly, even before we know every last detail about the crisis. Those who continue to argue that the appropriate response is merely additional research are simply seeking to camouflage timidity or protect their vested interest in the status quo.
-- Al Gore -
Well, you know, with every character, if you're going to expose yourself, you've got to figure out every detail that you're going to play. So there's no character that you can just go put on his shirt and be fully prepared.
-- Albert Brooks -
I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know God's thoughts, the rest are details.
-- Albert Einstein -
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The artist should fear to become the slave of detail.
-- Albert Pinkham RyderSource : Quoted in Goodrich Albert Pinkham Ryder (1959).
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Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description.
-- Alexander Kluge -
Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
We see what we see because we miss all the finer details.
-- Alfred Korzybski -
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In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which are important, will be picked up ad hoc in each avocation of life, but the habit of the active utilization of well-understood principles is the final possession of WISDOM.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.
-- Alfred Russel WallaceSource : Alfred Russel Wallace (1853). “A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro: With an Account of the Native Tribes, and Observations on the Climate, Geology, and Natural History of the Amazon Valley”, p.83, London : Reeve and Company
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This is the way you look at the poorest details of the world resurfaced, after you've been driving for a long time -- you feel their singleness and precise location and the forlorn coincidence of you being there to see them.
-- Alice Munro -
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I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.
-- Alma Guillermoprieto -
Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
Alligator: The crocodile of America, superior in every detail to the crocodile of the effete monarchies of the Old World.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as a human being, no matter what they've done.
-- Andrea Arnold -
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I learned everything I ever need to know about questioning artful dodgers by covering the most artful of them all, Ronald Reagan. For Reagan, performance was as much a part of governing as understanding the details of the federal budget.
-- Andrea MitchellSource : Andrea Mitchell (2006). “Talking Back: . . . to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels”, p.118, Penguin
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Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.
-- Andy Warhol -
It's about paying attention to the little things, the details... Constantly rediscovering your partner, knowing there's a way out of any crisis.
-- Antonio Banderas -
Fear is a great motivator. Look at what 9-11 has accomplished - My god. It's slammed the economy, It's - I can't even begin to detail all it's actually done, other than bring down the buildings and hit the Pentagon. It's stunned the entire nation.
-- Art Bell -
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Watch every detail that affects the accuracy of your work.
-- Arthur Nielsen -
When working on a period, it is the finer details that evoke imagery that helps in cinematic adaptations.
-- Ashwin Sanghi