Quotes About Specifics

you just can't use averages to predict the specifics of the next generation of eddies, any more than you could use an average to predict the life-story of an individual human being.

The vendor would also be unlikely to give permission to have the specifics documented in a book on system administration. Failures

Later he decided the specifics were not important, that the true lesson of accidents is not the how or the why, but the taken-for-granted world they exile you from.

Empiece por los detalles.

General rules will bear hard on particular cases.

It's been a while since I checked in with Malcolm Gladwell's 'Revisionist History' podcast. The episode 'The King of Tears' suggests the author is raising the bar. His argument is that country music is the genre that makes us cry because, unlike rock, it's not afraid of specifics.

One of the things I've always loved is collecting telling little details.

The difference was in the details.

It demoralizes people just to hear that they are doing "something" wrong without knowing what the specifics are so they can change.

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

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 Particulars.

Some is not a number; soon is not a time. Here's the number: 100,000. Here's the time: June 14, 2006—9 a.m.

The evil always comes from details.

Sometimes in my class I have people come in and do monologues inspired by people they know and I always find that to be useful to do specifics about somebody and then you're actually doing a character and not doing some random old lady or something.

He that would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars," wrote William Blake.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

Readers want a story, not a pattern. It's the specifics of a story that make it really ping our various reader radars.

Films like 'Velvet Goldmine' are an accumulation of research and references. I create an almost random resource of connections and am constantly distilling that into narrative specifics.

Apparently the police were hot on the trail of the Tamiami Butcher. There were no specifics available, but Captain Matthews got a lovely sound bite. He made it seem like he would personally make the arrest as soon as he finished his coffee.

I don't engage in hypotheticals.

The devil's in the details!

simultaneously we need to get continual feedback about how our clinical evaluation and interventions are going and be open to letting go of considered specifics, of moving back from the peaks of activation and plateaus of probability into the plane of possibility. Such feedback is a key element of effective psychotherapy of all sorts (see

Most people don't read the details. It's the details that astonish me.

It is the little things that are vital. Little things make the big things happen.