Quotes About Detail

It is that little bit of extra attention that makes all the difference.

Pleasured equallyIn seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seekingAnd finding.

We think in generalities but we live in detail.

Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole -- so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars. General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer; For Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized particles.

Making or writing a movie, to me, is like building a watch because a watch is so small and you only can fit so many things inside it that all the pieces really do need to work together.

Nipples may be said to resemble the ripest of raspberries or perhaps even a thimble, but "why take the trouble when the trouble taken is so evident," though Gass himself is willing to do it and make it look effortless. Maybe they really look like "the lightly chewed ends of large pencil erasers," and for someone who spends his days at his desk that image can prove surprisingly effective.

Well," he said, "it's a very circumstantial case. There's the thumbprint,

If the article mentions some celebrity-perhaps a recently dead politician-the author will want to mention some pointless detail from her last meeting with that person or the emotions she experienced when learning of the subject's death.

With headphones on, you can hear and appreciate extreme detail and subtlety, and the lack of uncontrollable reverb inherent in hearing music in a live room means that rhythmic material survives beautifully and completely intact; it doesn't get blurred or turned into sonic mush as it often does in a concert hall.

Pourquoi sommes-nous autant marqués par un détail, un geste, qui font de ces instants minimes le coeur d'une époque?

Do not be alarmed by the minor inconsistencies in the syntax. They are meant to heighten your level of attention and thereby make you a better programmer.

Smith's argument is worth laying out in detail because it is, as I say, the great founding myth of the discipline of economics.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!

Personal revelation, consecration of performance, attention to detail, and dependency on God-with these qualities you cannot fail.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The shortcut to closing a door is to bury yourself in the details. This is how we must look to God. As if everything's fine.

If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.

Good design is thorough, down to the last detail.

The Irish didn't read and write for a couple of thousand years, and I think we developed good memories and recall. We have a sense of the revelatory detail. I look for them.

Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all.

The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.

I am someone who places great value on the detail. That was always the case, even in my days as a racing driver.