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Quotes About Specifics

When you have a lot of opportunities, which I am blessed to have had in terms of my work, you get into the habit of not paying attention to certain specifics. And as we get busy, anything we do is the same thing.
~ Jake Gyllenhaal
When students write from experience, they can breathe those specifics into their writing- dialect, odd smells, precise names of plants- that can animate even the most tired and tedious text.
~ Ralph Fletcher
Whatever my accomplishments, all of things I loved were rooted in the dreams and goals I had as a child ... and in the ways I had managed to fulfill almost all of them. My uniqueness, I realized, came in the specifics of all the dreams -from incredibly meaningful to decidedly quirky- that defined my 46 years of life.
~ Randy Pausch
We think in generalities but we live in detail.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are The plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave.
~ William Blake
He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars. General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer; For Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized particles.
~ William Blake
In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!
~ Anton Chekhov
Success is in the details.
~ Zig Ziglar
My friends and family are not really fixated on the specifics of 'Star Wars.' My parents don't know anything about 'Star Wars.' They've never watched a 'Star Wars' film.
~ John Boyega
A judge sworn to decide impartially can offer no forecasts, no hints, for that would show not only disregard for the specifics of the particular case, it would display disdain for the entire judicial process.
~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg
One way to focus on details is to describe the various parts that make up the whole. A tangerine, for instance, consists of rind, juice, seeds, fruit, pulp, grainy membranes, stem, blossoms and leaves. Describing each of these parts will force you to notice details you might otherwise overlook, what Chekhov called the "little particulars." Later you may decide you've included too many particulars. If so, you can always remove some of them or group them in a different way. In
~ Rebecca McClanahan
realist works I look for detail; 'Look at the eyelashes!
~ David Nicholls
On Jobs in Pods, you can hear the hiring manager (or recruiter) tell you specifics about the job, and what impresses them in a job interview.
~ Jay Conrad Levinson
Mark ran to the herbarium to collect the paste of mulberry leaves and the unguent of Our Lady's mantle, known specifics for burns
~ Ellis Peters
We think in generalities, but we live in details.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
The good stuff is in the details.
~ Dee Henderson
The proof is in the pudding - all you need to know is to look at the details.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
so your desire to grow into who you're meant to be must be firmly placed in the very front of your mind at all times—as must the specifics of the life you're creating for yourself and the feelings associated with it, so you have the courage to stay the course.
~ Jen Sincero
Specifics create emotions, and emotions give us the no-nonsense determination to do whatever it takes to reach our goals.
~ Jen Sincero
Your job is to envision your life with all the specifics you can muster up so you can get all emotional and excited and take inspired action.
~ Jen Sincero
Investigate the specifics.
~ Jen Sincero
L'humanité entière n'est faite que de cas particuliers.
~ Amin Maalouf
Tell me every detail. All but the dull parts, I mean.
~ Amy McAuley