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Quotes About Detail

Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
~ Langston Hughes
There's more to bagging groceries than you think. It's not as easy as it looks. There's a lot to know.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Behind all political success is attention to detail." LARRY O'BRIEN, adviser to John F. Kennedy
~ Catherine Shaw
I had looked upon it as a simple task, what of the oars, mast, boom, and sprit, to say nothing of plenty of lines. But as I was without experience, and as every detail was an experiment and every successful detail an invention, the day was well gone before her shelter was an accomplished fact.
~ Jack London
The question of color was but another detail, somewhere between being six feet tall and being six feet under.
~ James Baldwin
Fanatical attention to consistency and detail •
~ James C. Collins
The sea, as much as the light, gives this curve of coast it's flavor. The light takes it's color from the sea, sometimes seems to be emerging from it. And the sea here is ever-present. On clear days it coats the air with a transparent tinge of palest blue that salts and sharpens every detail.
~ James D. Houston
Every Porsche is hand-built - one person, one engineer works on the car the entire way through so there's attention to detail and uncompromising quality for what you pay.
~ Yannick Bisson
Few people have heard of John Hawkshaw, the engineer responsible for Brighton's sewers, but he also built the Severn Tunnel and parts of the London Underground system. Such figures, largely forgotten now, conceived an infrastructure that was perfect in its fine detail and intended to last for a century or more - as it has.
~ Michael Portillo
I love the idea of making images of the parts of the body that we all have but that no one pays attention to, like the soft area underneath your nose.
~ Marilyn Minter
There is a world of difference between not disclosing fine detail and relying on broad and generalised assertions. The first may be understandable; the second is not acceptable.
~ Keir Starmer
The detail adds an element of unexpected something. All fiction is false; what makes it convincing is that it runs alongside the truth. The real world has lots of incidental details, so a painting also has to have that element of imperfection and irregularity, those incidental details.
~ Shaun Tan
Little things matter. Even a small tear wets the face.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The sort of man who, throwing a stone upon the ground, would miss.
~ Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams
An great building will never stand if you neglect the small bricks.
~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
The more specific you are the more general it'll be.
~ Diane Arbus
In my sport, we're measured in millimeters and fractions of millimeters.
~ Matt Emmons
A great pair of tweezers should feel like they are vibrating as if they have a spring. If the tweezers don't do that, they won't work well at all.
~ Anastasia Soare
The budget for 'Sanam Re' was Rs 15 crores. I had extravagant ideas for the film, but they had to be curtailed to squeeze into my budget - which meant pre-planning and putting down every single detail on paper.
~ Divya Khosla Kumar
We break down every element of the game, shift by shift and within the shift. And maybe sometimes we are over-the-top on that, but love our detail on the staff and how we do things.
~ Todd Reirden
You can't be aware of everything. You'd fall down the stairs if you were aware of every intricate thing involved in going down stairs.
~ Alan Alda
I don't think there's any show comparable to 'Game of Thrones' in terms of the way it does the fantasy element to such a high standard: everything is created with so much care and detail. You really feel like you are transported into this entirely other fictional place.
~ Hannah Murray
Politicians should not get involved in the detail of clinical criteria and shouldn't be arguing with professors and consultants over whether there is one standard deviation or two standard deviations.
~ Leo Varadkar
Results are a consequence of doing things well and having high standards, improving the detail of how we play.
~ Gareth Southgate