Quotes About Detail

You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen the steps which lead up from the hall to this room.

Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning. No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.

Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning. No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing

Se diría que habita en su persona la pasión por el conocimiento detallado y preciso.

The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general, and when only its most significant features are emphasized, is really a tragedy; but gone through in detail it has the character of a comedy.

The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.

The task of the novelist is not to narrate great events but to make small ones interesting.

You want people to make sure to get the stupid stuff right. Yet you also want to leave room for craft and judgment and the ability to respond to unexpected difficulties that arise along the way.

He wanted no careless errors; the stakes were too high.

So you want to keep the list short by focusing on what he called "the killer items" — the steps that are most dangerous to skip and sometimes overlooked nonetheless. The wording should be simple and exact, Boorman went on, and use the familiar language of the profession. Even the look of the checklist matters. Ideally, it should fit on one page. It should be free of clutter and unnecessary colors.

Faulty memory and distraction are a particular danger in what engineers call all-or-none processes: whether running to the store to buy ingredients for a cake, preparing an airplane for takeoff, or evaluating a sick person in the hospital, if you miss just one key thing, you might as well not have made the effort at all. A

We are by nature flawed and inconstant creatures. We can't even keep from snacking between meals. We are not built for discipline. We are built for novelty and excitement, not for careful attention to detail. Discipline is something we have to work at.

The successful M & M presentation inevitably involves a certain elision of detail and a lot of passive verbs.

The neurosurgeon had already gone over them in detail.

Operations like that lap chole have taught me how easily error can occur, but they've also showed me something else: effort does matter; diligence and attention to the minutest details can save you." .

What's painful and wonderful about loving somebody is loving their small things, like the way he is able to smile when he sips his wine, the way his hands fall down at his sides, fingers slightly cupped, or the way he is conducting the orchestra on the radio. Or now, the way he is lighting candles, just now this one in front of me. This is the one he lit first, actually. The one in front of me. Even though there was one on the way, he passed that one, lit it next.

Because the beauty of the human body is that it hasn't a single muscle which doesn't serve its purpose; that there's not a line wasted; that every detail of it fits one idea, the idea of a man and the life of a man.

Though it affected only one family, he believed the ordeal would be of interest to all; already he excelled at inflating a small issue into a larger one, of salvaging radiant principle from a slag heap of detail.

Charcot's drawings of convulsing hysterics agree in every detail with the scenes that left Deodat Lawson reeling.

You do the big things by doing the little things right.

It is rather difficult to talk about human memory because we don't know how the brain works in detail. We do, however, know all about how computer memories work.

Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.

I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases.

for giving me such a clear window into these very specific worlds.