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Quotes About Details

The Stones are not the kind of band that want to get in the details. That's why they have a producer and engineer - to pull the magic out of them and make them sound so great.
~ Nikki Sixx
You're not seriously going out again, are you?" "Seriously, yeah. Bowling. Her name's Laura. If you want more details, you're gonna have to download the video like everybody else.
~ Rachel Caine
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
It's all a terrible tragedy. And yet, in it's details, it's great fun. And - apart from the tragedy - I've never felt happier or better in my life than in those days in Belgium.
~ Rupert Brooke
Then, in my most careful handwriting, come all the details it would be a crime to forget. Lady licking Prim's cheek. My father's laugh. Peeta's father with the cookies. The colour of Finnick's eyes. What Cinna could do with a length of silk. Boggs reprogramming the Holo. Rue poised on her toes, arms slightly extended, like a bird about to take flight. On and on. We seal the pages with salt water and promises to live well to make their death count.
~ Suzanne Collins
The lawyer specializes in wills and trusts. The lawyer wants to know all details of your financial life. A good lawyer will create personalized documents that address your exact financial situation. You will be charged a flat fee. No hourly billing. The fee includes the creation of all three documents. The fee includes funding your trust. The quote includes time to review the entire document—word by word—with you. Remember, power is knowing exactly what you have.
~ Suze Orman
Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy - by one, or more, or all of these - and be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary details.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this Divinity within by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy — by one, or more, or all of these — and be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary details.
~ Swami Vivekananda
I'll always learn something new, usually the small things that people overlook, those small nuances that can make you great.
~ Cedric Alexander
I would like 'Dark Souls' to be a broad exploration game filled with so many veiled things and details.
~ Hidetaka Miyazaki
Matches are decided by details and you have to be ready to create spaces and help open up defences. It is what I have to do.
~ Paulinho
Our propensity to impose meaning and concepts blocks our awareness of the details making up the concept. However
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Our propensity to impose meaning and concepts blocks our awareness of the details making up the concept.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The fallacy is that what one may need to know in the real world does not necessarily match what one can perceive through intellect: it doesn't mean that details are not relevant, only that those we tend (IYI-style) to believe are important can distract us from more central attributes of the price mechanism.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Traders, when they make profits, have short communications; when they lose they drown you in details, theories, and charts.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Y los detalles se gastan, se echan a perder si uno los lleva consigo sin utilizarlos durante mucho tiempo. No sólo los detalles sino todo, todas las ocurrencias y las ideas.
~ Natalia Ginzburg
I hope that I may be excused for entering on these personal details, as I give them to show that I have not been hasty in coming to a decision.
~ Charles Darwin
Ellis had a strain of thrift, derived from a Scotch ancestry, and a tenacious memory for financial details.
~ Charles W. Chesnutt
The soap in the bathroom, the flowers in the garden, the book on the bedside table are all strong symbols of a life in progress. You look at these details and a world unfolds.
~ Charlotte Moss
I study orbital dynamics as a hobby. My idea of a good time is sitting down and drawing on that knowledge to imagine a space mission from beginning to end, getting as many details right as I can.
~ Andy Weir
We're still working out the details, but I'd be delighted to do the film. The problem at the moment is my busy schedule. Shooting on this film has been extended by a month, but I need to be in the U.S. by Dec. 20.
~ Zhang Ziyi
They're specialists, the whole lot of them, and they don't believe in a method of work which cuts into every field of science from botany to archaeology. They limit their own scope in order to be able to dig in the depths with more concentration for details. Modern research demands that every special branch shall dig in its own hole. It's not usual for anyone to sort out what comes up out of the holes and try to put it all together.
~ Thor Heyerdahl
did start paying attention to the unglamorous insights
~ Tim Harford
They were good listeners, worldly yet easily shocked, hungry for details, curious and nonjudgmental at the same time, always happy to give advice, but only if it was requested.
~ Tom Perrotta