Quotes About Details

In our limited understanding, I think we often try to work things out and then ask God to get involved. In reality, he expects us to wait on him—to trust him. Not in a passive way, though. Waiting means to leave the details to him while we go about the work he's put in front of us.

in life it is often the tiny details that end up being the most important.

One could say, in fact, that no story really has a beginning, and that no story really has an end, as all of the world's stories are as jumbled as the items in the arboretum, with their details and secrets all heaped together so that the whole story, from beginning to end, depends on how you look at it.

I'll give you the four-one-one.

The copy editor looks for inconsistencies in content (does your character have blue eyes in Chapter 1, and green eyes in Chapter 30?

Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?

Routine, ruthless, wasteful, oversimplified solutions for all manner of city physical needs (let alone social and economic needs) have to be devised by administrative systems which have lost the power to comprehend, to handle and to value an infinity of vital, unique, intricate and interlocked details.

By the time I questioned Briggs late this afternoon, there were only two dogs that hadn't been adopted. And he wanted to keep those two. And he said to tell you he got the job. He's the new weatherman on the evening news. Some cable station. I didn't get all the details. Might have been the local Fox affiliate.

What the banking system needs is creditors who monitor risk and cut their exposure when that risk is too high. Unlike regulators, creditors and counterparties know the details of a deal and have their own money on the line.

Meeting forensic patients for the first time could occasionally be an unnerving experience. They often came across as mild and gentle people, but the details of the crimes were harrowing in the extreme.

So much about Trump is... mysterious and slippery. Everything in his business record, you had to ask him for the details. He made himself the only source. He would either not tell you, or he was often an unreliable narrator about his own life.

A lot of guys I know are into this whole scarf trend. Not my thing. I prefer to update and personalize my style with the smaller things, like a pocket square or, again, with the shoes. All in the details.

Productivity and efficiency can be achieved only step by step with sustained hard work, relentless attention to details and insistence on the highest standards of quality and performance.

She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.

I laughed when Steven Spielberg said that cloning extinct animals was inevitable. But I'm not laughing anymore, at least about mammoths. This is going to happen. It's just a matter of working out the details.

When you're the showrunner, you're the person that's in control of most of the details, and to be able to take all that and then to step right behind the camera and to have a direct line of communication with the crew and with the actors - to not be delivering that through another person - is pretty freeing and extremely stimulating.

In northern architecture - the cathedrals of Europe and all the little churches - the details, the carving of stone, become necessary because the light is not there to help you very much. You have to enrich surfaces. The desert reduces form to its simplest nature. There is no need for gargoyles or flying buttresses in the desert.

It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.

I've always been jealous of rappers, because they can fit so many words into a song and tell a story with lots of details. But when you're a songwriter, you have to fit the words to the melody and you can't fit as much in. I'm just a big fan of storytelling.

When you're thinking of how to make your business bigger, it's tempting to try to think all the big thoughts, the world-changing, massive-action plans. But please know that it's often the tiny details that really thrill someone enough to make them tell all their friends about you.

it's often the tiny details that really thrill someone enough to make them tell all their friends about you.

Cuando oigo historias de éxito y fracaso busco las pequeñas cosas que marcaron una gran diferencia.

But please know that it's often the tiny details that really thrill someone enough to make them tell all their friends about you.

Como aprendimos de Bill, algo así como dos terceras partes de los invitados de Disney World están aquí por segunda o posterior ocasión. En parte, son los detalles lo que los hace regresar.