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Quotes About Detail-oriented

I haven't read all of The Witcher novels. And that's only because I am very thorough. I read every detail and often have to go back to the page before and read it again, and I ask questions as I go along, since I am that character.
~ Anya Chalotra
There's no set like a Ryan Murphy set, mainly because it feels like he's built an entire world. He's so thoughtful and meticulous, and every detail is thought about and cared for.
~ Skyler Samuels
One time, Niall sat on the floor for hours trying to find a way of putting his M&M's in alphabetical order.
~ Louis Tomlinson
I like to think that Henry James said his classic line, A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost, while looking for his glasses, and that they were on top of his head.
~ Anne Lamott
The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.
~ John George Nicolay
Conscientious individuals are ruled by their heads. Emotions, urges, whims, or hungers do not often get the best of them.
~ John M. Oldham
I have to be careful. My readers are very detail-oriented, and if I make a mistake they'll call me on it.
~ Rick Riordan
I'm pretty OCD. I like to fine-tune every single detail. I think that's a habit built maybe from me being OCD.
~ Marcus Mariota
Watch every detail that affects the accuracy of your work.
~ Arthur C. Nielsen
Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the perfect print.
~ Irving Penn
Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice of anything that I can see with my naked eye.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.
~ Barbra Streisand
We never let go. Ever. Even with punctuation. It's frightening. I can't see anyone from any record company ever writing an email to Neil and not getting it back, with corrections.
~ Chris Lowe
I'm horribly hands-on, I'm afraid. I like to read every caption.
~ Anna Wintour
I have a hard time revising sentences, because I spend an inordinate amount of time on each sentence, and the sentence before it, and the sentence after it.
~ Chang-Rae Lee
I'm an incredibly hard worker, I'm incredibly tenacious, and I'm incredibly detail-oriented.
~ David Brock
Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I'll read C. Fred Bergsten's defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It's embarrassing to admit.
~ Bono
You get so lost in the making of a film, and you get so fixed on just, like, every tiny detail. If something doesn't hit the bullseye in the way you wanted, you become obsessed with that, and you get so just lost in that maze of neurotic thinking.
~ Ari Aster
You cant be a practicing attorney without being very disciplined and detail-oriented and having good time management.
~ Charles Soule
Harry would take off his coat, remove his cravat, roll up his shirt-sleeves, give his curly hair the right touch before the glass, get out his book on engineering, his boxes of instruments, his drawing paper, his profile paper, open the book of logarithms, mix his India ink, sharpen his pencils, light a cigar, and sit down at the table to lay out a line, with the most grave notion that he was mastering the details of engineering.
~ Mark Twain
I like to rehearse and rehearse and have everything exactly calculated before we start shooting - probably to a fault.
~ John Lithgow
I don't want to brag, but I do more homework on the course than any other announcer. I chart the greens to get all the breaks. I walk down into the greenside bunkers. I walk into the fairway bunkers to see whether a player can reach the green from them.
~ Johnny Miller
She's a planner. She doesn't, you know, wing anything. She likes to make lists and check things off, get things done.
~ Gillian Flynn
Curious pedantries moved him.
~ Graham Greene