Quotes About Detail

I fixed my eyes in the vicinity of the yellowish-brown darned spot around the little green button at your breast.

Sometimes it was interesting and sometimes it wasn't, but right now he couldn't be bothered to go into it in detail.

Her capacity for detail was astounding, if not highly annoying during arguments.

It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.

I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter.

A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.

Great men are sometimes so even in small things.

It may be in seemingly unimportant things that a man expresses his passion for perfection, yet they will count heavily in the long run.

A man perfect to the finger tips.

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

When it comes to art, money is an unimportant detail. It just happens to be a huge unimportant detail.

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

If you can't do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.

A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.

Pay close attention to detail in whatever it is you are doing. Be specific and expect quality from your performance.

Quick music sounds dull unless every note is articulated.

Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope.

The key is to not let the camera, which depicts nature in so much detail, reveal just what the eye picks up, but what the heart picks up as well.

But where do they find these lines in nature? I can only see luminous or obscure masses, planes that advance or planes that recede, reliefs or background. My eye never catches lines or details.

Close scrutiny of an object in nature will nearly always yield some significant fact.

Drawing makes you look at the world more closely. It helps you to see what you're looking at more clearly. Did you know that?"I said nothing."What colour's a blackbird?" she said."Black""Typical!

A lack of patience in trifling matters might lead to the disruption of great project.

Susanne Alleyn's Game of Patience is a well-crafted historical mystery, authentic in every detail. Wonderfully entertaining.

Attention to detail can't be (and never is) added later. It's an entire development philosophy, methodology, and culture.