Details Quotes - Page 14

• Beware of the person who can't be bothered by details.

  William Feather

  Bothered, Persons

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• I think I have a very detailed sense of observation. I am interested in the details of people's lives and what information these details give.

  Julian Fellowes

  Thinking, People, Giving

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• Success is the sum of details.

  Harvey S. Firestone

  Success

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• While Democrats fussed with the details of health care reforms, conservatives spent months telling the nation that the real issue is freedom, that what's on the line is American liberty itself.

  Thomas Frank

  Real, Issues, Liberty

  "The Left Should Reclaim ‘Freedom’" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 16, 2009.

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• I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It's in the spirit of it.

  Stephen Fry

  Thinking, Views, Style

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• Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

  Theophile Gautier

  Art, Choices, Care

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• Comedy historians take note: this Gottfried character doesn't have the best eye for detail - and, for a Jew, he doesn't have the best eye for retail, either.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Character, Eye, Retail

  Gilbert Gottfried (2011). “Rubber Balls and Liquor”, p.23, Macmillan

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• My fancy dress costume of choice is... something 1920s or 30s, when there was still so much elegance and attention to detail. An excuse for ultimate dressing-up indulgence.

  Ellie Goulding

  Dressing Up, Choices, Dresses

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind like dissonant details awaiting harmonious resolution.

  Brian Greene

  Creativity, Men, Inspire

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• Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.

  Helen Hayes

  Women, Famous Inspirational, Memorable

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• Attention to detail is of utmost importance when you want to look good.

  Carolina Herrera

  Looks, Attention, Want

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• Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Important

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• Kind 'Guardian' readers have been forwarding me round robin Christmas newsletters for years now: lengthy missives full of perfect children, exotic holidays, talented pets and endless, tedious detail. The notes that accompanied them revealed they had inspired in the original recipients everything from mild irritation to absolute rage.

  Simon Hoggart

  Children, Holiday, Years

  "Glad tidings we bring ..." by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2004.

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• People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Change, People, Fundamentals

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• Al Gore has dedicated his life to detail. George W. Bush has not. He's the first to admit it.

  Peter Jennings

  Als, Firsts, Dedicated

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• This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.

  Steve Jobs

  Educational, Mean, Sweat

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• When you come up with a theory, you fall in love with the beauty the simplicity and elegance of it. But then you have to get a sheet of paper and pencil and crack out all the details. Hundreds and hundreds of pages. Because you have to prove it.

  Michio Kaku

  Falling In Love, Simplicity, Paper

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• If I try to articulate every little detail in a drawing, it would be like missing the forest for the trees, so it's just about getting the outline of the forest.

  Jeff Koons

  Drawing, Tree, Missing

  "Jeff Koons on drawing as a means of articulating an idea". Interview with Dale Berning, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2009.

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• Accuracy is paramount in every detail of a work of history. Here's my rule: Ask yourself, 'Did this thing happen?' If the answer is yes, then it's historical. Then ask, 'Did this thing happen precisely this way?' If the answer is yes, then it's history; if the answer is no, not precisely this way, then it's historical drama.

  Tony Kushner

  Drama, Historical, Answers

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• Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Affair, Providence, Humans

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1854). “Memoirs of celebrated characters”, p.141

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• All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

  T. E. Lawrence

  Ornaments, World, Revision

  Letter to Bruce Rogers, August 20, 1931.

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• We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

  Joyce Meyer

  Two, Soul, Mind

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• It's reached this point where people are fascinated by every intricate detail of other people's lives. And some people are willing to give up their lives like that.

  Sienna Miller

  Giving Up, People, Willing

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• Garbage can provide important details for hackers: names, telephone numbers, a company's internal jargon.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Garbage Cans, Names, Numbers

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• If one of my heroes comes to me and says, 'Do you want to work on something?' I just say, 'Yes.' I don't ask for details; I don't expect to get paid anything. I just love working with my heroes.

  Moby

  Hero, Want, Paid

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