Quotes About Detail

Beautiful engineering always held a fascination for me.

I don't like fast editing.

I don't like to dwell all day over one scene as you do in a big feature.

Female can understand more detail and really care for the consequence and understand all the process.

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.

TV, particularly network television, gives you a much greater opportunity to tell a long-form story, to develop a character and keep it detailed. Film, by its nature, is more finite.

Being in this whole fashion industry, seeing it firsthand, I never realized just how much work goes into everything.

Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.

When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain.

A big part of reporting is just being present. You have to show up ten days in a row to get the one telling detail.

Everyone should have a tailor. David Wilkes, the guy who does my stuff, is like, 'Well you're a writer - do you want a special pen compartment or something?' Bespoke: That's the term you want to get out there.

My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!

The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me.

No hacia otra cosa que examinarse, que analizar lo que en el ocurría, como si la suma de detalles pudieran darle la certidumbre de que vivía.

If you find a way to write with open heart to Diary, a friend with Truth, no detail spared, your tome like Petrarch's works will contain the scattered fragments of your soul.

The edge of a leaf is not simply uneven; there is a glossary of specific words for the appearance of a leaf margin: dentate for large, coarse teeth, serrate for a sawblade edge, serrulate if the teeth are fine and even, ciliate for a fringe along the edge. A leaf folded by accordion pleats is plicate, complanate when flattened as if squashed between two pages of a book. Every nuance of moss architecture has a word.

A complaint had to be true and specific

I'm telling you now. Without knowing for sure if you sent them, or why, I was left to my own discretion. If you want me to bother you with every little detail that comes up, just say so. He shrugged. But I was under the impression that you wanted me to handle shit. Murray's face reddened with bluster. I do, damn it. They were shit, Trace explained. They've been handled.

for as Father says, trifles show character.

If we are interested in cultural processes, the only way in which we can know the significance of the selected detail of behaviour is against the background of the motives and emotions and values that are institutionalized in that culture.

Success is the sum of a lot of small things done correctly.

Success in any endeavor requires single-minded attention to detail and total concentration.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.