Quotes About Details

For many years, Rockefeller had tried to free himself from details and applauded the committee system as relegating him to a fifth wheel.

Despite the scope of his vision, Pierpont was extremely attentive to details and took pride in the knowledge that he could perform any job in the bank:

Majid and Henry sat on the floor, staring at each other in the dazed amazement that only survivors know, where every detail is newly crisp and each fresh moment is like a crust of ice on a pond, a thin tangible layer between life and death.

Who designed the circuit? What do they say?" "They're all either long retired or long dead. And they didn't expect the programs to last more than a few years anyway. So there's no documentation. It was just a bunch of geeks standing around a lab bench, trying to figure things out. No one remembers the exact details. No one is smart enough to work it out again backward. And

From the perspective of a classical historian, German scholar Hans Stier has concurred that agreement over basic data and divergence of details suggest credibility, because fabricated accounts tend to be fully consistent and harmonized. "Every historian," he wrote, "is especially skeptical at that moment when an extraordinary happening is only reported in accounts which are completely free of contradictions.

Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.

I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, the crucial heart, and you can damn someone with the bare bones of it.

If only gossip weren't so titillating. Sweeney tried to control an avid desire to know more, to dig for all the dirty details. The temptation was great. Dirt was like fat; it made life more delicious.

Society dead or alive can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

Little things make the difference. Everyone is well prepared in the big things, but only the winners perfect the little things.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

I want to know God's thoughts - the rest are mere details.

I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon. I want to know His thoughts, the rest are details.

I want to know God's thoughts. The rest are details.

I soon discovered that one doesn't simply read Crime and Punishment or A Tree Grows in Brooklyn . One reads a certain edition, a specific copy, recognizable by the roughness or the smoothness of its paper, by its scent, by a slight tear on page 72 and a coffee ring on the right-hand corner of the back cover.

Porque los detalles, como todos sabemos, conducen a la virtud y la felicidad, en tanto que las generalidades son intelectualmente males necesarios.

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.

Porque los detalles, como todos sabemos, conducen a la virtud y la felicidad, en tanto que las generalidades son intelectualmente males necesarios. No son los filósofos sino los que se dedican a la marquetería y los coleccionistas de sellos los que constituyen la columna vertebral de la sociedad

Porque son los detalles, como todo el mundo lo sabe, los que conducen a la virtud y a la felicidad...

Thus, creating big feelings in readers requires laying a foundation on top of which readers build their own towering experience. What is that foundation? The more precise question is, what triggers readers to dredge up their own emotional experiences? One answer is this: It's the small details (reminders) used to evoke a situation that are preloaded with feeling.

Delegation means that he will concern himself with the results of their activities and not with the details of their day-to-day performance. This requires a degree of confidence in them which enables him to accept certain risks. Unless he takes these risks there will be no delegation.

But the little things are what make up life

I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.

It is the small things in life which count; it is the inconsequential leak which empties the biggest reservoir.