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Quotes About Detail

Some designers believe the more research you do, the better the solution," said Weaver. "I personally believe in common sense and intuition. Jonathan's strength was that he quickly grasped the essentials of a challenge, producing intuitive solutions, which were elegant, viable and had a sense of detail rare in one so young.
~ Leander Kahney
It's not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.. the kind of detail that turns an ordinary product into an artifact
~ Leander Kahney
Everything's interesting. You just have to look closely." "And most people don't.
~ James Sallis
He was reaching that age, he was at the edge of it, when the world becomes suddenly more beautiful, when it reveals itself in a special way, in every detail, roof and wall, in the leaves of trees fluttering faintly before the rain. The world was opening itself, as if to allow, now that life was shortening, one long, passionate look, and all that had been withheld would finally be given.
~ James Salter
suddenly felt frightened. He was reaching that age, he was at the edge of it, when the world becomes suddenly more beautiful, when it reveals itself in a special way, in every detail, roof and wall, in the leaves of trees fluttering faintly before a rain. The world was opening itself, as if to allow, now that life was shortening, one long, passionate look, and all that had been withheld would finally be given.
~ James Salter
Whenever I go to a hospital to visit someone, I must confess that half my mind is thinking, Hm, this would make a good detail in a scene….
~ James Scott Bell
It is hard for me to believe that Miss Groby ever saw any work of literature from far enough away to know what it meant. She was forever climbing up the margins of books and crawling between their lines for the little gold of phrase, making marks with a pencil. As Palamides hunted the Questing Beast, she hunted the Figure of Speech. She hunted it through the clangorous halls of Shakespeare and through the green forests of Scott.
~ James Thurber
It would not be easy, indeed, to catch their expression, but their colour and shape, and the eyelashes, so remarkably fine, might be copied.
~ Jane Austen
This brief account of the family is intended to supersede the necessity of a long and minute detail from Mrs. Thorpe herself, of her past adventures and sufferings, which might otherwise be expected to occupy three or four chapters; in which the worthlessness of lords and attornies might set forth, and conversations, which had passed twenty years before, be minutely repeated.
~ Jane Austen
Well we all know blokes don't do detail, they do facts.
~ Jane Green
Every spot on earth is particular, detailed, and incomprehensibly complex.
~ Jane Smiley
This was an artist's stare, attentive to detail, taking in the truth without preconceptions.
~ Janet Fitch
One thing that's nice about writing a book about food is - unless it's from a specific place - you can revisit things easily by preparing the dish. The sensory detail that comes from interacting with that is something that can be recreated pretty easily.
~ Michelle Zauner
Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description.
~ Alexander Kluge
There are a lot of times that if a detail in a scene or a beat, feels unnatural, they'll allow me to explore another direction to go until we're all comfortable with what we are doing.
~ George Eads
Balenciaga taught me everything I know. He taught me to care for the details, that it was not necessary to sew on a button where it had no use or to add a flower to make a dress beautiful... no unnecessary detail.
~ Hubert de Givenchy
Anytime Tom Watson is on your team, you've won. His passion, professionalism, attention to detail, and leadership are unparalleled.
~ David Lauren
Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.
~ Camille Pissarro
Never leave a rhinestone unturned.
~ Dolly Parton
Nobody pays attention to the way a person's shirt folds around his shoulder when they sit down, but if that shirt folded in an unusual way, you'd notice it.
~ John Lasseter
I always tell up-and-coming DJs you have to really love what you do and find that interest to drive you. It requires so much attention to detail, and it takes up a lot of your time. You hear a song, and there are so many little pieces that make that song work. It requires a lot of patience, diligence and resilience.
~ Steve Aoki
We have our Upside Down document which describes its rules and its mythology in quite a bit of detail, but I think we're just going to slowly parse that out, and maybe not even fully use all of it.
~ Ross Duffer
As a coach, your high standards of performance, attention to detail and - above all - how hard you work set the stage for how your players perform.
~ Don Shula
Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.
~ Jack Dorsey