Quotes About Detail

With the long-format interview, I can get into really interesting conversations with my guests. You know what it's like to get the opportunity to speak to really interesting people and pick their brain about things. To have time to let a guest actually speak and tell a story and get into detail is really exciting.

There are no little things. Little things are the hinges of the universe.

Politics is a far more intellectual business than is often realized. You may think: Well, if it's simplicity that's required, you don't need a whole lot of detail. Wrong. The simplicity is not born of superficial analysis. It is simple precisely because it is the product of being worked through.

Un profesor aprensivo planea casarse con la chica de sus sueños, ¡pero antes debe acompañar a su futuro y sobreprotector cuñado –un policía– a una patrulla infernal!: Ride Along [Compañero de patrulla].2 (Atención al detalle: cualquier cosa «infernal» aporta siempre un plus de comicidad.)

Daily life is always extraordinary when rendered precisely. We can unlock our lives with a pencil tip.

Daily life is always extraordinary when rendered precisely.

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.

Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and--prayer.

Averages are bad measures. I want to see actuals, highs, lows and why—not an average. An average is just lazy.

Jobs's personal interests guided Apple's strategy. Bezos's particular passions would have the same defining impact at Amazon. Bezos didn't just love books—he fully imbibed them, methodically processing each detail.

When you introduce things that most readers have never seen before into a piece of fiction, you have to describe them with as much precision and in as much detail as possible. What you can eliminate from fiction is the description of things that most readers have seen.

I don't mind ironing at all. There's a special satisfaction in making wrinkled things smooth.

They were too clear and detailed to have been a fantasy, and too whole and beautiful to have been real.

Memory is a funny thing. When I was in the scene, I hardly paid it any mind. I never stopped to think of it as something that would make a lasting impression, certainly never imagined that eighteen years later I would recall it in such detail.

Your readers have seen a sky with one moon in it any number of times, right? But I doubt they've seen a sky with two moons in it side by side. When yoy introduce things that most readers have never seen before into a piece of fiction, you have to describe them with as much precision and in as much detail as possible. What you can eliminate from fiction is the description of what most readers have seen.

The point is you are supposed to vote for the principle of the thing, not the itsy-bitsy detail about this percent and that percent.

In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.

My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail.

I probably have the most fun thinking up original vehicles. I usually consider details such as how to get into them and where their engines are. When you draw a real-world car, you have to obtain some references. I'd hate to have someone point out that I'm wrong. But if it's something I invented, I can have it my way.

One blob of red in the wrong place and the audience isn't looking at the hero, they're looking at a patch of curtain (or something similar) and your whole effect is lost.

I wrote three novels in six months, with a clarity of focus and attention to detail that I had never before experienced. This type of sublime creative energy is characteristic of the elevated and productive mood state known as hypomania.

WWE is so huge, and they have to crank out so many hours of television, so they don't have time to take the care and attention to detail for the entire roster.

Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.

You need to know your mistakes, as well as your opponent's mistakes. So you need to make sure the trainer is paying significant importance to you and your fighter, and every detail of it.