Quotes About Detail

On 18 you've got to drive it up a gnat's ass.

You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.

Look closely. The beautiful may be small.

once you see the difference that paying full attention can make to the small things in life, you start to get an inkling of the cost of inattention.

Time seemed to slow down and stretch out, like a quiet, slow passage in a piece of music. It occurred to me then that I could never be a soldier. The waiting would kill me. It's ironic, I know. I can spend months on a work, whole weeks minutely carving some tiny part of it. I am obsessive with detail, and never care how long it takes to get something perfect, because the success of the whole might depend on one small part.

He delights in every detail of their lives. Psalm 37:23.

The differences in the two thinking styles, as Baron-Cohen describes them, are intriguing. "Systematizing involves exactness, excellent attention to local detail," and an attraction to fixed rules independent of context, he says. "To systematize, you need detachment." 21 (Baron describes autism as an "extreme" male brain.)

I think the resolution involved in the high-def, Blu-ray image demands we pay attention to every detail to a level we've never seen before. The audiences have to believe everything they're seeing. As viewers, we're all so experienced and so much smarter than we realize. With Blu-ray, there will be less tricking of the eye.

Well, anytime I make a movie, I like to load it up with more things than you could ever catch on the first viewing.

To reconstruct stories and scenes, nonfiction writers must conduct vigorous and responsible research. In fact, narrative requires more research than traditional reportage, for writers cannot simply tell what they learn and know; rather, they must show it.

I tend to have a kind of tunnel vision when I'm looking at an individual piece.

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

The goal of the Concept Development stage is to develop and flesh out your vision with enough additional detail to explain what needs to be designed and built.

But the building's identity resided in the ornament.

He'd just had time to notice how a tiny curl of her dark hair hooked on to the side of her ear, and hung there.

tongue-in-groove walls

Tom is back on a flight at 6:15 P.M. That is 6:15. Do you get it? Not 6:00 P.M. but 6:15 P.M. And do you know how many minutes that is? I do. I have also become a Time Lord.

There she was, the mother of me, like a lit plinth, Heavenly, though I was reared to find this kind Of visitation impractical; she was an unbearable detail Of the supreme celestial map, Of which I had been taught that there was No such thing.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

I hate when I send a long text message, and the person only replies to that one unimportant part.

Every little job counts. Design counts.

Good dressing is largely a question of detail and accessories.

Attention must be paid' is the cardinal rule of design discipline, for the designer is above all someone who pays attention to the situation at hand.

After the design is firmly fixed, the decoration is added. Decorating is the final enhancement.