Quotes About Detail

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping.

Personal power is really the issue. It is only through tremendous attention to detail that you will be able to gain personal power and searing self-honesty.

The detail in my work helps to convince me, and I hope others as well, that such places might be real.

He [Christ] even restored the severed ear of the soldier who came to arrest Him - a fact that allows us to hope the resurrection will reflect a considerable attention to detail.

I'm saying is that I hope that you drill in with the same detail with his [Donald Trump] team as you're drilling in with ours.

all to no end save beauty the eternal-- So in detail they, the crowd, are beautiful

Crossing too many t's and dotting too many i's makes a room look overdone and tiresome. One should create something that fires the imagination without overemphasis.

Look closely. The beautiful may be small.

Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.

I will not call myself a perfectionist, but I love to present things with my best effort.

So many things become beautiful when you really look

The world is a woven basket. Every stitch counts.

The difference between companies that make $100, 000 vs those that make $1bn dollars within the same industry is paying attention to detail.

In the life of everyone there is a limited number of experiences which are not written upon the memory, but stamped there with a die; and in the long years after, they can be called up in detail, and every emotion that was stirred by them can be lived through anew; these are the tragedies of life.

Literature differs from life in that life is amorphously full of detail, and rarely directs us toward it, wheras literature teaches us to notice. Literature makes us better noticers of life; we get to practice on life itself; which in turn makes us better readers of detail in literature; which in turn makes us better readers of life.

When I talk about free indirect style I am really talking about point of view, and when I talk about point of view I am really talking about the perception of detail, and when I talk about detail I'm really talking about character, and when I talk about character I am really talking about the real , which is at the bottom of my inquiries.

The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labor.

and for Stephen, who carried all his theories in his head, fine detail was a hindrance to clarity of thought.

Continue to wrap these wires around the circle of the bead, applying pressure on the wire. Ensure that each of the new layers is wrapped beneath the previous layer.

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.

With Ham-it-up vampires, the do and say distinction begins with listening to the actual content of their words. These vampires seldom lie, but they seldom tell the whole truth, except when it slips out between the lines. Pay attention to detail. Ask questions to determine the who, what, when, where, and why of situations before assuming you know what's going on.