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Quotes About Details

In my first publishable research, I obtained evidence that the replication of polio viral RNA engendered a multi-stranded intermediate, although my description of that intermediate proved flawed in its details.
~ J. Michael Bishop
I concentrate, more than I think virtually any comic book artist has in the past, on the so-called mundane details of every day life - quotidian life. What happens to a person during a working day, marital relations, and stuff like that.
~ Harvey Pekar
and listen so attentively to the details of your day that, like your personal biographer, he'll remember more about your life than you will.
~ Lori Gottlieb
from a distance you might see the big picture, but not the whole picture, you missed the details. Not everything was seen, from a distance.
~ Louise Penny
That was often the equation, give up the few to save the many. From a distance it seemed so simple, so clear. And yet, from a distance you might see the big picture, but not the whole picture, you missed the details. Not everything was seen, from a distance.
~ Louise Penny
Homes, Gamache knew, were a self-portrait. A person's choice of color, furnishing, pictures. Every touch revealed the individual. God, or the Devil, was in the details. And so was the human. Was it dirty, messy, obsessively clean? Were the decorations chosen to impress, or were they a hodgepodge of personal history? Was the space cluttered or clear? He felt a thrill every time he entered a home during an investigation.
~ Louise Penny
In old Quebec City, "magnificent" wasn't measured in square feet, but in details.
~ Louise Penny
Homes, Gamache knew, were a self-portrait. A person's choice of color, furnishing, pictures. Every touch revealed the individual. God, or the Devil, was in the details. And so was the human.
~ Louise Penny
Music became more of a film camera, or a microscope exploring all the details of a text. As a result all phonetic aspects of the text were assimilated into musical process.
~ Luciano Berio
Love was supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it fell apart at the details. It couldn't save a single child-not the ones who'd gone to Sterling High that day, expecting the normal; not Josie Cormier; certainly not Peter. So what was the recipe? Was it love, mixed with something else for good measure? Luck? Hope? Forgiveness?
~ Jodi Picoult
there were things I knew for sure: That I had been loved, once, and had loved back. That a person could find hope in the way a weed grew. That the sum of a man's life was not where he wound up but in the details that brought him there. That we made mistakes.
~ Jodi Picoult
Love was supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it fell apart at the details.
~ Jodi Picoult
When you are attracted to people, it's because of the details. Their kindness. Their eyes. Their smile. The fact that they can get you to laugh when you need it the most.
~ Jodi Picoult
know he hired a new deputy on the spot." Pearly hesitated. New deputy, Lauren wrote down, then waited for the name. "Fill me in on details, Pearly. Was he already
~ Jodi Thomas
Details ensure accuracy and help avoid the risk of overlooking meaningful or nuanced behaviors
~ Joe Navarro
Halfway up the drive there was God these tedious details. Halfway up there was a…
~ John Banville
When I agreed to call him about lunch he gave me his telephone number at the shipyard, his extension there, the telephone number of his apartment, the telephone number of a cottage he had in Connecticut, and the telephone number of the club where he lunched and played cards. I wrote all these numbers on a piece of paper and when we said goodbye I dropped the paper into a wastebasket.
~ John Cheever
The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
~ Arthur Erickson
I like to feel that I understand little things about sports.
~ Bill James
Todos los detalles de cualquier percepto, todas las formas geométricas, los colores, los cambios de perspectiva y las texturas se encuentran algorítmicamente concentradas en cada punto de la Lattice. Pero en su decodificación añadimos nuestra propia estructura y organización cerebral y de la interacción entre esta y las características de la Lattice, surgen las cualidades (luz, sonido, textura, etc.) que nos son familiares.
~ Jacobo Grinberg
Once a structurally complete and closed system of opinions consisting of many details and relations has been formed, it offers enduring resistance to anything that contradicts it.
~ Ludwik Fleck
There were other things, though. There were always more details trailing any good story. Like tin cans on the back bumper of a newlywed's car. Rattles and pings and wonderful small moments spinning in the wake of a great life.
~ Luis Alberto Urrea
I knew that my trauma, no matter what it was, was not unique. I knew that pain was the universal driving force of so many people—I knew that only in the details was it specific, and I just found it urgent to cut right to the chase and get right to the point.
~ Lydia Lunch
We hyper-focus on the lines of Scripture containing the miracles, and we miss the details of the mess.
~ Lysa TerKeurst