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Quotes About Detail-oriented

I have a tendency to overcut my movies.
~ James Wan
I was always very detail-oriented, and in the time I spent in different roles - the elected official, the campaign manager - I had a tendency to want to push the creation of the product and really work on the critical path that would get to product.
~ Bill de Blasio
Samantha Jennings sat next to him. Teachers thought Samantha was fantastic: always volunteering for stuff, neat uniform, glossed nails. She did all her diagrams with three different colored pens and covered her textbooks in wrapping paper so they looked extra smart. But
~ Robert Muchamore
It probably took Leslie longer to type the @ symbol than it would have to type the word at, but that's the kind of thing she loves to do.
~ Louis Sachar
Whereas most other tycoons hired subordinates to oversee personal expenditures, Rockefeller supervised every detail
~ Ron Chernow
No detail was too trivial to escape his notice, and he often spouted the Scottish adage "Many mickles make a muckle"—that is, tiny things add up.
~ Ron Chernow
What is commonly called 'women's intuition' is mostly a woman's acute ability to notice small details and changes in the appearance or behaviour of others. It's something that, throughout history, has bewildered men who play around - and are invariably caught.
~ Allan Pease
The Warrior of the Light pays attention to small things because they can severely hamper him.
~ Paulo Coelho
Quilters never cut corners.
~ Anonymous
If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.
~ Bill F. Walsh
I'm not an easy customer. My attention to detail could probably drive you mad. My eye still always goes toward the single flaw.
~ L'Wren Scott
It's not that I'm a control freak - but I am. I want to make sure everything is perfect.
~ Stephanie Winston Wolkoff
The Duffer Brothers are so attentive to story and detail while being wildly respectful of me and what I bring to the process.
~ David Harbour
I have a color-coded computer spreadsheet that divides things down to chapter fragments. Each character's point-of-view is a different color. The text of the manuscript is color-coded the same way. The last thing I do before submitting the manuscript is turn all those colors back to black.
~ Neal Shusterman
Sticklers unite, you have nothing to lose but your sense of proportion, and arguably you didn't have a lot of that to begin with.
~ Lynne Truss
pedantic. You
~ Scott Turow
Documentary filmmaking ruins you for real life, because you learn to be extremely attentive.
~ Frederick Wiseman
Behind every text footnote is a file folder with all the hardcopy documentation needed to document every sentence in this book at a moment's notice. Moreover, I assembled a team of hair-splitting, nitpicking, adversarial researchers and archivists to review each and every sentence, collectively ensuring that each fact and fragment of a fact was backed up with the necessary black and white documents.
~ Edwin Black
Not to mention wicked eyebrows. Lily noticed eyebrows the way some people paid attention to shoulders or lips
~ Eileen Wilks
I'm proud to be a railway modeler.
~ Rod Stewart
I wish I did have time to relax, but I'm a Virgo and it's just not in me.
~ Eva Marie
The Witch' was very well planned, but 'The Lighthouse' was so much more so.
~ Robert Eggers
I'm a little Type A, and I have this really thick binder whenever I do a movie where I make a million notes, and in between takes, I'm checking it out.
~ Bryce Dallas Howard
Paul is a very creative artist but I'm more that thorough, meticulous, disciplined nut.
~ Art Garfunkel