Details Quotes

Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.

Effective visions are lived in details, not broad strokes.

The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details.

I don't dwell in the past; I don't wallow in old events and emotions. I don't waste time on regret. No use going over and over the details of what already happened.

Much of life appears mundane at the time. Yet in God's providence every moment includes significant details arranged by His divine hand.

When a problem threatens to engulf you, there's nothing like irrelevant detail to keep your head above water.

Most of our lives aren't that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

I see in [George H. W.] Bush a striving to be Reagan-like in the sense of having a big vision, and eschewing small details.

[E]very job is composed of many small details, any one of which, if overlooked, can create big problems later.

Seinfeld has his way of telling jokes - and I'm not comparing myself to Seinfeld, his genius is observing the small details of everyday life and finding humor in it.

I'm fascinated by what people will do to each other. Actually, I'm sort of interested in the gory details of life.

I read everything I could find: books and online. Sometimes bigger revelations came to me through finer details or something that you wouldn't pick up just by surface reading.

For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it's bloodless, a little too fictional.

Certainly the details of our life are unique. Spending time thinking of how I am different from someone else, however, does not tend to be very productive.

I like to think that I've gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it's stayed the same.

Here's a Challenge: Study a complicated topic in such detail that anyone interested can nod their head and understand as you explain specific concepts within the topic.

I want to know the thoughts of God. Everything else is just details.

I want to know what God thinks. The rest are details.

I want to Gods thoughts, the rest are details.

[Warren Beatty] is voraciously detail-oriented.

[Warren Beatty] will sometimes spend hours on a very small detail to make sure he gets it right. After the kind of work that he's made, he certainly doesn't have to be doing that.

You are told that you have to eliminate un-useful sentences, but as a writer you know how important details are.

In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles.

All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.

I'm prickly. I fuss over every single detail.

I'm not going to get into details, but every band has their moments when things are tough. Just logistically, tough on your body, stress levels, psychologically tough, relationships can be tough.

Lawyers tend to be bright people. They tend to be-much more than many journalists I've encountered-sticklers for detail and accuracy, and they have a logical way of arguing.

Mostly it's lies, writing novels. You set out to tell an untrue story and you try to make it believable, even to yourself. Which calls for details; any good lie does.

It's about paying attention to the little things, the details... Constantly rediscovering your partner, knowing there's a way out of any crisis.

Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details.

I read 'Crime and Punishment' years ago and don't recall the details of it, but I do retain a strong sense of the creeping paranoia and panic.

[Scott Derrickson] is terrific, really sharp on the details, and he's not afraid to go to dark places.

Tom's [Brady] personal preferences on his footballs are something he can take about in much better detail and information than I could possibly provide.

In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.

Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.

Don't get bogged down with all the details of how it's going to come together. Just do the dishes. And watch the momentum build.

Baroque sculpture and interior design has a quality of creating an environment that seems organic because it's full of curves and details, like a forest.

Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.

He saved your life,” Clary pointed out. “Details,” said Simon dismissively.

So, what are you?" "What I am is someone who doesn't want you to jump out of the window. The rest are details.

... Herbert said of himself, with his eyes fixed on the fire, that he thought he must have committed a felony and forgotten the details of it, he felt so dejected and guilty.

You cant be a practicing attorney without being very disciplined and detail-oriented and having good time management.

When you sketch a shoe but don't have the intention to do a proper shoe, it remains a curvy sketch with no detail. The shoe completely morphs to the body.

Honest talk about the deficit is risky. Voters are more enthusiastic about the abstract notion of deficit reduction than about the painful details of accomplishing it.

By looking into more details of American history, we can make more sense of what's happening today.

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.

I've been working on my finishing for quite some time. It's just a question of paying attention to the minor details.

Donald Trump refuses to give details about his policy plans. Trump apologized by saying, 'When I announced I was running for president, I had no idea people would take me seriously.'

The 'Star Wars' movie is coming out. Disney has kept the details of the movie under wraps because they're not Sony.

I think when you are doing a song you're trying to give people enough details that they connect.