The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
~By Michael Korda ~
I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.
~By Drew Barrymore ~
What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.
~By Laurie Lee ~
I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to whether my presentation of historical facts was an exact one.
~By Lion Feuchtwanger ~
The reason Apple is really good, I think, and the reason their stores succeeded, is not just 'cause we know the big idea, but we have a real passion for the littlest detail. It's legendary in our products.
~By Ron Johnson ~
Male and female gossip also sounds different, as women use more animated tones, more detail and more feedback.
~By Kate Fox ~
The rest is a mere matter of detail, to be settled with judgment, discretion, and caution.
~By John Griffin Carlisle ~
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
~By William Morris ~
I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.
~By Anne Tyler ~
Traffic is about drugs. As detailed a portrait as I can muster about what is happening in the drug world, from top to bottom, from policy to how things move on the street.
~By Steven Soderbergh ~
We are going to have a huge Oscar issue, you are going to see everything in such beautiful detail.
~By Steven Cojocaru ~
There are a lot of times that if a detail in a scene or a beat, feels unnatural, they'll allow me to explore another direction to go until we're all comfortable with what we are doing.
~By George Eads ~
If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
~By Jean-Paul Sartre ~
We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy.
~By David Hackworth ~
To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.
~By Giorgio Armani ~
Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.
~By Edvard Munch ~
Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description.
~By Alexander Kluge ~
I'm not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on national TV to get attention. Some things are better left unsaid.
~By Mariah Carey ~
Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
~By Alphonse de Lamartine ~
With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.
~By Robert Morgan ~
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.
~By Aimee Mann ~
Disney is thrilling and informative and important and beautiful and suspect. Butts was a detail I observed later and definitely ties in. I suppose I was programmed, yeah.
~By Mark Morris ~
My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.
~By Niklaus Wirth ~
The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elaborations of the same are mutually dependent; they grow in and through each other.
~By Hermann Ebbinghaus ~
Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft were telling the workers to feign illness, and detailed instructions were given to them on how to do it.
~By Albert Speer ~
My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail.
~By Laurell K. Hamilton ~
I won't go into detail but this animated one, the story line is very cool and the kids seem to love it.
~By Blair Underwood ~
Those early sketches looked too cartoony; I really wanted to do detailed drawings - I was taking anatomy classes - but unfortunately I wasn't able to do it because of the time element.
~By Joe Shuster ~
A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.
~By John Foster Dulles ~
Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different from my anticipation. So there is considerable flow, but always within channels.
~By Piers Anthony ~
I've been on the show for six years and I don't even know what her history is. I sort of make things up in my mind, but I think it's hard for an audience to follow and invest in a character when they don't have the details.
~By Crystal Chappell ~
The hesitancy is in the detail, not the principal. There has been no resistance to the principal of women playing in the Open if they are qualified for it. We are not dragging our feet. It's just that we never had cause to think about it before.
~By Peter Dawson ~
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
~By Jean-Paul Sartre ~
Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
~By Heraclitus ~
Well, I don't know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I'm no real philosopher in the sense of knowing what these people have said in any detail so let me not comment on that too much.
~By Roger Penrose ~
And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself.
~By Joshua Slocum ~
And for every project, because it takes years, you can see the early drawings and collages as just a simple, vague idea, and through the years and through the negotiations of getting the permit, you see that every detail is now clarified.
~By Christo ~
I was enchanted by the escape into that meticulous world that seemed real yet not... well, it seemed not real, but very detailed and meticulous, bizarre.
~By Richard Foreman ~
The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.
~By Havelock Ellis ~
We were fortunate enough to have several good books detailing the camps and the women. Some were by the survivors. I also got to talk to some of the women who had been in the camp, survivors.
~By Glenn Close ~
You don't forget the movies, but you forget the details of them.
~By Sissy Spacek ~
I think in any writing you're paying attention to detail.
~By Peter Matthiessen ~
I'm proud of Lord of the Rings. I think it's a once in a lifetime role, and a once in a lifetime film. It was made with so much care and passion and meticulous detail and everybody was so behind it.
~By Sean Bean ~
The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.
~By Charles R. Swindoll ~
I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.
~By Rita Dove ~
I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.
~By Thomas Bailey Aldrich ~
Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that there's a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life.
~By Suzanne Vega ~
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
~By Evelyn Underhill ~
I tested the waters on producing a record, but I'm more of a creative guy... I can't get into minute details.
~By Dee Snider ~
Details create the big picture.
~By Sanford I. Weill ~
It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes.
~By Anton Seidl ~
It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject; the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.
~By Alexander Fleming ~
The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
~By Honore De Balzac ~
We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.
~By Pamela Hansford Johnson ~
Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Once I start writing about something, it goes off rather fast, and sometimes details which might be interesting such as what the room looked like or what somebody said that was not exactly on the same subject tend to get lost.
~By Kenneth Koch ~
I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away the creative artistic approach that the designers had taken.
~By Andy Hertzfeld ~
Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.
~By Amy Winehouse ~
One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
~By Pablo Picasso ~
The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, down to the tiniest degree of detail that can exist in the world.
~By K. Eric Drexler ~
Some time ago, we went to Asia and took a camera along, and I began to do what I'd done even years ago doing people. I couldn't get interested in it. And I did hundreds of photographs of details of the monuments as sculpture.
~By Ben Shahn ~
We're going to break a story that there are people on the staff on the 9-11 Commission that didn't want the 9-11 Commissioners to know the details of Able Danger because of the potential to embarrass those commissioners.
~By Curt Weldon ~
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.
~By Carl Clinton Van Doren ~
With Fever, the film was so made for the screen, and there's so much surround sound that was done for the film - enormous detail paid to that. I wasn't thinking video, because I didn't know how it was going to turn out.
~By Alex Winter ~
With these kinds of proposals, the devil is in the details. We're going to examine this realignment closely. We will fight any measure that compromises our needs - now or in the future.
~By John B. Larson ~
The day Tarzan opened in London, I sat in a hotel room and discussed the project in detail.
~By Phil Collins ~
The Republicans have put together serious detailed counter-proposals when we have objected to this administration's agenda. And so, I want to tell the President and remind him again, we're not voting no for political expediency. We've got our principles, and we're going to stand up and defend those.
~By Eric Cantor ~
The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
~By Jawaharlal Nehru ~
Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
~By Malcolm Bradbury ~
The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11 only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger.
~By Jurgen Habermas ~
I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.
~By Alma Guillermoprieto ~
In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.
~By Henri Cartier-Bresson ~
The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.
~By Stephen Gardiner ~
Recently though, our State Governments have discussed instigating a carbon trading scheme - the details are still to be decided - and that's an encouraging sign.
~By Peter Garrett ~
Among other things they picked out a detail that Charles had been offered the Governorship of Hong Kong in its dying days by Thatcher in return for shutting up about the inner cities. He quite rightly in my view led the paper on this story.
~By Anthony Holden ~
One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole.
~By Barbara Hepworth ~
I never kept a diary, but I wrote detailed notes of my travels.
~By David Rockefeller ~
Fear is a great motivator. Look at what 9-11 has accomplished - My god. It's slammed the economy, It's - I can't even begin to detail all it's actually done, other than bring down the buildings and hit the Pentagon. It's stunned the entire nation.
~By Art Bell ~
Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.
~By Colin Powell ~
We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.
~By Fredrik Bajer ~
I worked every day there, so I knew all the details. But I needed only some proof. So the proof was photos.
~By Mordechai Vanunu ~
My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive than if they had been represented in all their details.
~By Joan Miro ~
The details are not the details. They make the design.
~By Charles Eames ~
Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.
~By Benny Goodman ~
Occasionally, I would focus on a particular school project and become obsessed with, what seemed to my mother, to be trivial details instead of apportioning the time I spent on school work in a more efficient way.
~By Steven Chu ~
I do like to work on a Marvel method, so if I've got the opportunity, and the writer is happy to do it, I like to have a writer detail what happens on a page, but not saying what happens in every scene.
~By David Lloyd ~
The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.
~By Laurence J. Peter ~
I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable.
~By Terry Brooks ~
People have criticised me because my security detail is larger than the president's. But you must ask yourself: are there more people who want to kill me than who want to kill the president? I can assure you there are.
~By Marion Berry ~
God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.
~By Gloria Steinem ~
I have always felt that this story is universal. When I began to understand the details of the history, I felt that the most compelling aspect was not what happened, but what continues to happen and how it is denied.
~By Atom Egoyan ~
I suppose that I was a kind of consultant for taste. Is it good taste? Or bad taste? I had an attention to detail, to what would tell best the story. Because many people get excited about the work and drift off from the story.
~By John Hench ~
Whatever the details of union may be, there's no doubt we need more policy coordination in Europe.
~By Gerhard Schroder ~
Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.
~By Ovid ~
A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.
~By Sivananda ~
As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it.
~By Joshua Lederberg ~
In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.
~By Alfred Russel Wallace ~
It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
~By John Wooden ~
What practical conclusions may we now draw for our propaganda work among women? The task of this Party Congress must not be to issue detailed practical suggestions, but to draw up general directions for the proletarian women's movement.
~By Clara Zetkin ~
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
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