Quotes About Details

He surprised me by his familiarity with details of movements and battles which I did not suppose had come to his knowledge. As he kept me talking for over half an hour, I flattered myself that what I had to say interested him.

I dettagli sono il sangue della narrativa.

Nunca nadie hizo jamás buena literatura con historias familiares. Regla de oro para los escritores debutantes: si escasea la imaginación, hay que ser fiel a los detalles.

Sus rostros eran absolutamente similares en un detalle: parecían extremadamente incompletos, como cuadros con agujeros por ojos o como un rompecabezas al que le faltase una pieza nimia. Y eso que echaba en falta, pensó Richards, era el aire de desesperación. En sus estómagos no aullaban los lobos. Sus mentes no estaban llenas de sueños viciados, de esperanzas insensatas.

What impresses me about Catholic mythology is partly its tasteless kitsch but mostly the airy nonchalance with which these people make up the details as they go along. It is just shamelessly invented.

do not just declare things to be irreducibly complex; the chances are that you haven't looked carefully enough at the details, or thought carefully enough about them.

Más que de la mujer, el hombre tiende a enamorarse de los fragmentos y detalles de las cosas.

Más que la mujer, el hombre tiende a enamorarse de los fragmentos y detalles de las cosas.

Some men never master anything other than the details of a job. Others master the main idea back of the job.

The first thing I notice about a man are his shoes. Then I look at his watch.

In proportion as man approaches the outer rim, he becomes lost in details, and the more he is preoccupied with details, the less he can understand them.

When it comes down to it, it really is the little things that count most.

You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only.

In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture.

It requires courage to make a frontal attack on nature through the broad planes and the large lines and it is cowardly to do it by the facets and details. It is a battle.

The President and first lady did hold a private party at the White House over the weekend, but given the private nature of that event, I don't have a lot of details to discuss from here.

Like enthusiasts in general, he made no inquiries into details of procedure.

Know the philosophy, know the details, and ignore everything in the middle.

Management philosophy: Pay attention to the vital fiew and ignore the trivial many. I could go insane if I obsessed over every little details of all my companies.

Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought to be ruins the power to write or paint.

I constantly yearn to celebrate life & its infinite manifestations, to examine the details of everything including the human heart & mind.

Life is unpredictable.We can not tell will happen in a minute.We have no control of tomorrow and it's details. Live a careful life.

In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.

Blue and Gray veterans led the way in focusing public attention on the minute details of each battle, a move that tended to distract attention from larger questions of meaning. Few if any other wars have created among the public such a strange fascination with the concrete details of military tactics and strategy, and thus pride in knowing where and when General Daniel Sickles lost his leg at Gettysburg, but not in knowing when slaves were freed in the District of Columbia.