Quotes About Details
The history you don't want to talk about. The details you wish you could forget. The pain that never goes away, no matter how much time passes. I
~ M.J. Rose
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The moment Shostakovich spoke over the radio, the story of the Seventh Symphony started to sparkle and to effervesce into myth. It became a public story used by others for their own ends. This does not mean that people lied — but people blurred details; they tugged; they nudged.
~ Unknown
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Reconstructing a Soviet life is often difficult. Many of the details of Shostakovich's youth we know only because his aunt Nadejda Galli-Shohat collaborated on a biography years later, against his wishes. She is not an entirely reliable source; an American interviewer called her "one of those wonderfully frank Russians who can drop into fantasy as easily as most of us find our way into the subway.
~ Unknown
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DREAMS EDIT THEMSELVES; DREAMS are ruthless with details. Common sense does not dictate what remains, or is not included, in a dream. A two-minute dream can feel like forever.
~ John Irving
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Finches are seed eaters, but Dr. Daruwalla didn't know this, nor did the doctor know that the green parrot perching on the vine had feet with two toes pointing forward and two backward. These were the details he missed, and they contributed to the growing list of things he didn't know. This was the kind of Everyman he was—a little lost, a little misinformed (or uninformed), almost everywhere he ever was.
~ John Irving
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Escribió que la peor razón para que algo ocurriera en una novela era que hubiera ocurrido realmente. "¡Todo ha ocurrido realmente, alguna vez!", rabiaba. "La única razón para que algo ocurra es que es perfecto que ocurra en ese momento". -Dime cualquier cosa que te haya ocurrido a ti- dijo en cierta ocasión a una entrevistadora- y yo lo mejoraré. Puedo mostrar los detalles mejor que como ocurrieron.
~ John Irving
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Another mantra, which I still write in chalk on the blackboard, is "A Thousand Details Add Up to One Impression." It's actually a quote from Cary Grant.
~ John McPhee
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All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
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A kindergarten teacher is a woman who knows how to make little things count.
~ Anonymous
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It's the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class.
~ J. Willard Marriott
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The difference in being good at some thing and being great at something is usually found in the little things.
~ Unknown
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It is a well-known experience that the only truly enjoyable and profitable way of studying mathematics is the method of "filling in details" by one's own efforts.
~ Unknown
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One problem with lyrical waxing, as Snediker has it, is that it often signals (or occasions) an infatuation with overarching concepts or figures that can run roughshod over the specificities of the situation at hand.
~ Maggie Nelson
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Do not be absent for too long, then come and ask about how I am, details die with time and stories change.
~ Mahmoud Darwish
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Do not be absent for too long, then come and ask about how am, details die with time and stories change.
~ Mahmoud Darwish
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You only need two or three details to set the scene. More than that and you can lose the reader's interest.
~ Marc Levy
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Les souvenirs sont parfois comme ces photographies blanchies par le temps, dont les détails ressurgissent à la faveur d'un certain éclairage.
~ Marc Levy
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Assimilate the principles (or, core) of a system, and you can tack on the details later if you're interested.
~ Marc MacYoung
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Memory, instead of being a duplicate, always present before one's eyes, of the various events of one's life, is rather a void from which at odd moments a chance resemblance enables ones to resuscitate dead recollections, but even then, there are innumerable little details which have not fallen into that potential reservoir of memory, and which will remain for ever unverifiable.
~ Marcel Proust
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an easy chair for Lucas. Lucas took it, gave them a quick summary of the Jones case, including the recovery of the girls' bodies, and recited the details, as he remembered them, of the descriptions he'd accumulated on the man who'd called himself John Fell. "Fairly big guy, but
~ John Sandford
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Too many details and I'm out of my very peculiar little closet (it's a lovely closet; it smells of pine and desperation).
~ John Scalzi
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Most people don't read the details. It's the details that astonish me.
~ John Steinbeck
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Little things make the big things happen
~ John Wooden
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You will find that success and attention to details, the smallest details, usually go hand in hand, in basketball and elsewhere in your life.
~ John Wooden
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