Quotes About Specifics

You gotta know the details to paint a really good picture in the reader's mind on what's happening.

In an age when stagecraft, gauzy themes, and sound-bites have too often been substituted for leadership, Bill Clinton as a candidate made it essential to campaigning to take the specifics of governance seriously. Practical solutions were 'in;' ideology was 'out.'

The reality of the situation is life on Earth has not changed. We need facts, we need events, we need specifics on things.

The classic deductive inference (actually taken from Aristotle's Categories) is "All men are mortal; Socrates is a man; therefore Socrates is mortal." Usually a good deductive inference goes from greater generalities to lesser ones:

The devil was always in the detail. And here the detail was certainly devilish.

Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.

You have an extraordinary genius for minutiae

It's much more powerful to say I'm working to reduce spending, deal with our nation's deficit, push back on the federal government, and give specifics for that rather than just say, 'I'm a conservative.'

I'm tired of high policy talks. I want to focus on nuts and bolts.

The truth is in the details.

In general, don't fight your frameworks. Seek ways to keep the fundamentals of domain-driven design and let go of the specifics when the framework is antagonistic.

This tight coupling of the application to the specifics of the implementation strips away most of the benefits of abstraction in the domain layer and makes continuing changes ever more expensive.

So without getting into the specifics, I can tell you that to the extent that investigation is a relatively important investigation and meaningful, the president would have been periodically briefed.

It's the little things that count, hundreds of 'em.

I learned no detail was too small. It was all about the details.

But I think when you have something like the Green New Deal, which tends to be about big, bold ideas, instead of specifics, and then adds in other controversial topics like universal health care, and a guaranteed job for all Americans, it makes it less likely that it will pass, not more.

The language of the poem is the language of particulars.

A counterfeit manifestation of clarifying expectations is to create "smoke and mirrors"—to give lip service to clarifying expectations, but to fail to pin down specifics like results, deadlines, or dollars that facilitate meaningful accountability.

terms of the specifics, you're going to be saying things like: "We're the number-one this … we're the fastest-growing that … we're the foremost experts in this … The chairman of the board, a man named so?and-so, is one of the most astute minds in the entire XYZ industry … He's accomplished X … he's accomplished Y … and he's built this company around one thing above all: [whatever that is].

During a big tournament, it is the small details that make big differences.

Most historians don't much like generalizations. Indeed, they make a trade of showing that this or that generalization about the past will not work here or there or then.

Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.

It's the stupid details that my heart is breaking for.

Go in fear of abstractions.