Quotes About Detail

You'll learn that the key to a great book is editing—grinding, buffing, and polishing—not writing.

Steve Jobs taught me that little details separate the mediocre from the excellent.

For the things in the chair, perfect to the last, subtle detail of microscopic resemblance - or identity - were the face and hands of Henry Wentworth Akeley.

Koltuktaki o ÅŸeyler, mükemmel mikroskobik benzerliÄŸin, kimliÄŸin en ince detay?na dek; Henry Wentworth Akeley'nin yüzü ve elleriydi.

So that was what Edna had been doing. Strolling down the street. Ignoring, as she often did, the sights and sounds. Lost in her own personal bliss of studying the faces of passersby. Noting cheek structure and mandibular depth, inter-eye distance and ear height, jaw contours and orbital spacing. And that was why, despite the new hair color and style, despite the fashionable glasses and adult makeup and clothing, Edna had recognized the missing girl.

Clothes should be as interesting on the inside as on the outside. Even if you enjoy it totally alone, it's important.

You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion.

Revising stuff lately, I was shocked to see how often my characters scratched their ankles, felt their feet, and touched their own ears.

On the other track I got to talk with Jon Poll, my editor, and we go into more detail about the decisions we made in both the production and the post-production. So I hope the combination becomes something worth collecting.

I spend hours mowing the lawn in absolutely straight lines on my tractor. If it's not right, I do it again.

Every spot on earth is particular, detailed, and incomprehensibly complex.

You can't see the forest for the trees.

If you know the differences between an oak and a poplar, a spruce and a pine, down to the needles... you are able to paint that tree with more conviction, even if done with a few broad strokes.

That which interests me above all else is the calligraphy of a tree or the tiles of a roof, and I mean leaf by leaf, branch by branch, blade by blade of grass.

He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.

Underneath every detail of her life was a history of oppression. And yet she'd emerged not only with her spirit intact, but with a capacity for joy that he had only begun to understand. That he would now never truly know.

I'll be washed and ironed. I'll be washed and ironed and starched.

It's only the last turn of a bolt that tightens it – the rest it's just movement.

Half the evils of the world come from inaccuracy.

I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory.

Always keep the big picture in mind- you are greatly loved by Jesus and your job is to love Him and others in return. The rest is detail.

I love hidden things. When you buy something with quality, you like the inside to be as beautiful as the outside. Nobody's going to see it, but you know it's there.

A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for, a daunting testimony to that peculiar nation's love of detail and organization.

I think when you really love something, you notice the minutiae.