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Quotes About Details

See, the 'small stuff' is what makes up the larger picture of our lives. Many people are like you, young man. But their perspective is distorted. They ignore 'small stuff,' claiming to have an eye on the bigger picture, never understanding that the bigger picture is composed of nothing more than-are you ready?- 'small stuff'.
~ Andy Andrews
Nothing in fine print is ever good news.
~ Andy Rooney
This led her to a consideration of how very difficult it must be for people to write novels, because all the young heroines were in the Forces or civilian jobs, and all the young heroes the same, so that there was very little time for novelists to make them fall in love with each other, unless they made the hero be a flying officer and the heroine a Waaf, and then one would have to know all the details of the R.A.F or one would make the most dreadful howlers.
~ Angela Thirkell
At nine o'clock he went into an estate agent's office and asked if they had a map of the town. He was afraid they would not give him one unless they thought he was a serious purchaser, so he came out with an armful of property details too
~ Ann Cleeves
Symbolism is such a major thing in 'The Wheel of Time'. One of the things that Robert Jordan was renowned for was his attention to details.
~ Madeleine Madden
A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.
~ Swami Sivananda
Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House.
~ Hedy Lamarr
I spent a lot of time in the White House in the public areas where reporters are allowed to go, but I spoke to people about the private quarters as well. Some of the things I learned were small, novelistic details. For example, the fact that there were still pet stains on the carpets from the Bush cats when the Obamas moved in.
~ Jodi Kantor
The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life.
~ Charles Eames
For those who turn to literary biography for salacious details, 'Flannery' will disappoint. It is the biography of someone who had very little chance to live in the conventional sense, to experience events.
~ Floyd Skloot
It's the details that make people distinct, that make them individuals.
~ Howard Lutnick
This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities they have, their greatest fear, I don't actually see their faces.
~ Gail Honeyman
I deal in facts.
~ Louis Freeh
Even when the nation's leaders acknowledge tech issues, details are lacking.
~ Brianna Wu
When I've had to edit my albums, I'll listen to it one time through, and I'll make edits. I want to remember to set up a camera to record myself listening to my set, because I don't even slightly crack a smile, I am just listening for technical details, and I look like somebody that has absolutely no sense of humor. I look insane.
~ Tig Notaro
I enjoy learning technical details.
~ Ken Follett
At Ajax, I got an education in how to be confident on the ball, my technique, and then, at Atletico, I learned how to defend. It was about the details, the ruthlessness; be clinical in front of your own goal, win every duel, be clever. I learned so much and, defensively, I grew there so much.
~ Toby Alderweireld
The degree of intelligence that a man or a machine can show depends on many qualities of the ways that knowledge, goals, and problem-solving techniques are represented and put together, and not so much on the fine details.
~ Marvin Minsky
As a journalist, the details always tell the story.
~ James McBride
We struggle with, agonize over and bluster heroically about the great questions of life when the answers to most of these lie hidden in our attitude toward the thousand minor details of each day.
~ Robert Grudin
los marketers deben centrarse primero en apelar a las emociones y necesidades inconscientes del comprador. No siempre es malo incluir detalles factuales, ya que ayudarán a la mente consciente del consumidor a justificar la decisión, pero no espere que desencadenen la venta.
~ Roger Dooley
It's mainly the little things- all added up- that give us the final picture, that make the difference.
~ Roger Zelazny
If you ignore little things, they become big problems.
~ Rohinton Mistry
Were I a writer, and dead, how I would love it if my life, through the pains of some friendly and detached biographer, were to reduce itself to a few details, a few preferences, a few inflections, let us say: to biographemes whose distinction and mobility might go beyond any fate and come to touch, like Epicurean atoms, some future body, destined to the same dispersion.
~ Roland Barthes