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Quotes About Specifics

I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.
~ Alma Guillermoprieto
Once you have an opponent in your mind that you're preparing for, you're working on specifics, and you get guys in to mimic what they do.
~ Kamaru Usman
Art is all in the details.
~ Christian Marclay
There's nothing more interesting than the details of someone's life.
~ Robert Harris
Football is like that, it's details.
~ Marquinhos
The devil's in the detail and sometimes if you're thinking too big, you can miss the detail.
~ Bill Bailey
Talk about their life instead of your idea Ask about specifics in the past instead of generics or opinions about the future Talk less and listen more It's called The Mom Test because it leads to questions that even your mom can't lie to you about.
~ Rob Fitzpatrick
In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it.
~ Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
The Admiralty was well aware the Lusitania would soon traverse these same waters but made no effort to provide specifics of the night's events directly to Captain Turner.
~ Erik Larson
It's the details that make people distinct, that make them individuals.
~ Howard Lutnick
I hadn't heard about the real-life case behind 'Bombshell' before, but the scandal sadly felt very familiar. It's great that the movie brought the specifics of this situation to light and reignited the conversation around the MeToo movement.
~ Vick Hope
The smaller the detail the greater the value.
~ Doug Johnson
Reality deals in specifics under the guise of generalities. Literature does the contrary...
~ Alberto Manguel
Porque los detalles, como todos sabemos, conducen a la virtud y la felicidad, en tanto que las generalidades son intelectualmente males necesarios.
~ Aldous Huxley
Porque son los detalles, como todo el mundo lo sabe, los que conducen a la virtud y a la felicidad, en tanto que las generalidades son intelectualmente consideradas como males necesarios.
~ Aldous Huxley
The devil is in the detail.
~ Paulo Coelho
Success is the sum of details.
~ Harvey S. Firestone
Details create success.
~ John Wooden
I believe in focusing on details.
~ Charlie Trotter
Details are the only thing that separates one movie from another.
~ Campbell Scott
think your mother-in-law understands particulars. She's not a do-gooder, because most do-gooders deal in generalities. She never loses sight of the particular person, the unique human need.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the fundamental truth of his writing, his grand humility: that we frequently do not know our own motivations in life and are prisoners to what we cannot understand.
~ Andrew Solomon
The principle of literature is devotion to the particulars of life.
~ Carol Bly
Following the general term with specifics can serve the function of making doubly sure that the broad (and intended-to-be-broad) general term is taken to include the specifics.
~ Antonin Scalia