Quotes About Detail

The greater the scope in implementing an activity, the greater the need for strict attention to small details.

She cared deeply about words and she hated their misuse as she would hate the clumsy handling of any fine thing.

This must be a good book," he wrote in Working Days on June 10, 1938. "It simply must. I haven't any choice. It must be far and away the best thing I have ever attempted—slow but sure, piling detail on detail until a picture and an experience emerge. Until the whole throbbing thing emerges.

it was somehow wonderful of her to be, in every detail, herself.

This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.

("we appreciated the intricately thought-out, detailed universe you've created for your story." ~Arthur A. Levine Books (publishers of The Harry Potter series.)) about my book!

To be a convincing story, you've got to know what you're talking about. In EVERY detail."-Rayner Unwin

Money is the most corrosive aspect of life today because it means that all attention to detail is forgotten.

There is beauty in all things, you just need to look close enough.

A journey is only as interesting as the secret of its detail.

under her coat, which she opened or buttoned up according as the exercise made her feel warm, the dog-toothed border of her blouse

ceux qui apprennent sur la vie d'un autre quelque détail exact en tirent aussitôt des conséquences qui ne le sont pas et voient dans le fait nouvellement découvert l'explication de choses qui précisément n'ont aucun rapport avec lui.

For me, of course, these faces were not what they must have been for Saint-Loup: in his memory, through the transparent indifference of impassive features that feigned not to know him, under the ordinariness of a greeting that could have been exchanged with anyone else, he could see the tumbled hair, the gasping mouth, the half-closed eyes, all the detail of a silent scene which a painter, wishing not to offend visitors to his studio, conceals behind a more seemly canvas.

He closed by telling us the real battle is won in the mind. It's won by guys who understand their areas of weakness, who sit and think about it, plotting and planning to improve. Attending to the detail. Work on their weaknesses and overcome them. Because they can.

the real battle is won in the mind. It's won by guys who understand their areas of weakness, who sit and think about it, plotting and planning to improve. Attending to the detail. Work on their weaknesses and overcome them. Because they can.

fussiness, and his

Take care to chop the onion fine.

A hair on the head is worth two on the brush.

Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.

She found that if she paid extremely careful attention to what was around her, really concentrating, and noticing every detail, the terror would fall back.

Any detail can be magnified to reveal even more detail ad infinitum. The technical term is "infinite complexity." Fractals are the theological equivalent of what theologians call the incomprehensibility of God. Just when we think we have God figured out, we discover a new dimension of His kaleidoscopic personality.

God is great not just because nothing is too big for Him; God is also great because nothing is too small. The Sovereign One cares about every minute detail of our lives.

If it moves, starch it. If it doesn't move, starch it. If it seems it has enough starch already, it hasn't, so starch it again.

Ask him what time it is and he'll tell you how the watch was made.