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• The idea that the Man Christ Jesus has absolute and final authority over the whole church and over all of its members in every detail of their lives is simply not now accepted as true by the rank and file of evangelical Christians

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Jesus, Men

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• It's not human nature to be great. It's human nature to survive, to be average and do what you have to do to get by. That is normal. When you have something good happen, it's the special people that can stay focused and keep paying attention to detail, working to get better and not being satisfied with what they have accomplished.

  Nick Saban

  Average, Special People, Get Better

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• When we walk slowly, the world can fully appear. Not only are the creatures not frightened away by our haste or aggression, but the fine detail of fern and flower, or devastation and disruption, becomes visible. Many of us hurry along because we do not want to see what is really going on in and around us. We are afraid to let our senses touch the body of suffering or the body of beauty

  Joan Halifax

  Flower, Suffering, Ferns

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• If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you’re competing against a lot of people, But if you’re willing to invest on a seven-year time horizon, you’re now competing against a fraction of those people, because very few companies are willing to do that. Just by lengthening the time horizon, you can engage in endeavours that you could never otherwise pursue. At Amazon we like things to work in five to seven years. We’re willing to plant seeds, let them grow—and we’re very stubborn. We say we’re stubborn on vision and flexible on details.

  Jeff Bezos

  Years, People, Vision

  "Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. November 13, 2011.

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• Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details and caries him onward and upward to every station in life.

  Samuel Smiles

  Men, Onward And Upward, Balance

  Samuel Smiles (1859). “Self-help; with illustrations of character and conduct”, p.152

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• Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Statistics, Grasping, Features

  Rudolf Arnheim (2004). “Visual Thinking”, p.68, Univ of California Press

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• Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Giving, Statistics, Narrative

  The Mikado act 2 (1885)

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• In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.

  Stanislav Grof

  Memories, Past, Sometimes

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• Being a rock star is being a rock star, I don't need to go into the details. What would you do if you were a rock star?

  David Lee Roth

  Stars, Rocks, Needs

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• The strange, wonderful stories of Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain introduce us to the tremendously gifted Kirsten Menger-Anderson, a writer whose subject is nothing less than the diagnosis and cure of the human malady. We follow twelve generations of New York City's Steenwycks family through their forays into phrenology, mesmerism, radium therapy and similar misadventures, a historically rich narrative that Menger-Anderson delivers in striking, elegant prose and with a sure eye for detail. This is a remarkable debut by a writer to watch.

  Ben Fountain

  New York, Eye, Cities

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• A mediocre man copying nature will never produce a work of art, because he really looks without seeing, and though he may have noted each detail minutely, the result will be flat and without character... the artist on the contrary, sees; that is to say, his eye, grafted on his heart, reads deeply into the bosom of nature.

  Auguste Rodin

  Art, Character, Eye

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• 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.

  Barbara Hepworth

  Yield, Tiny, Execution

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• Perfectionism has nothing to do with getting it right.  It has nothing to do with fixing things.  It has nothing to do with standards.  Perfectionism is a refusal to let yourself move forward.  It is a loop-an obsessive, debilitating closed system that causes you to get stuck in the details of what you are writing or painting or making and to lose sight of the whole.

  Julia Cameron

  Moving, Writing, Sight

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• I was conscious all the time that I was following mad whims without being able to do anything about it … . Despite my alienation from myself at that moment, and even though I was nothing but a battleground for invisible forces, I was aware of every detail of what was going on around me.

  Knut Hamsun

  Mad, Able, Moments

  Knut Hamsun (2008). “Hunger: A Novel”, p.6, Macmillan

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• I have said, and I repeat, at the risk of appearing sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history of the Second World War.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  War, Risk, World

  "The Journal of Historical Review", 2002.

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• A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of a multi-dimension than when it is done directly as a visual recording. This results in a kind of abstraction... and thus avoids the pitfalls of mere decoration.

  Wayne Thiebaud

  Giving, Decision, Dimensions

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• You will, in time, see and show others not just the superficial, but the details, the meanings, and the implications of all that you look at.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Looks, Photographer

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.4, New Riders

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• The more light you have in an image, the less drama you get. The details start taking over; the mystery is all gone.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Drama, Light

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.44, New Riders

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• Polly Findlay showed real insight and imagination in her production of my translation of Seneca's Thyestes at the Arcola. I enjoyed her use of the space and the detail of her work with the actors, and I'm looking forward to seeing what she does with Light Shining.

  Caryl Churchill

  Real, Light, Space

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• The Lordship of Jesus Christ is not quite forgotten among Christians, but it has been relegated to the hymnal where all responsibility toward it may be comfortably discharged in a glow of religious emotion. Or if it is taught as a theory in the classroom it is rarely applied to practical living. The idea that the Man Christ Jesus has absolute final authority over the whole church and over its members in every detail of their lives is simply not now accepted as true by the rank and file of evangelical Christians.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

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• I remember the special quiet of rainy days
  when I felt that I could enter the pages
  of my beautiful picture books.
  Now I try to recreate that feeling of believing
  that the imaginary place I'm drawing really exists.
  The detail in my work helps to convince me, and I hope
  others as well, that such places might be real.

  Jan Brett

  Beautiful, Real, Book

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

  Jan Brett

  Real, Might, Helping

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• Gears of War: Exile was an unannounced game that I can't give any details about that has since been cancelled.

  Cliff Bleszinski

  War, Games, Giving

  "Gears Of War: Exile Canned" By Colin Campbell, www.ign.com. April 9, 2012.

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• We embark unhesitatingly on the path, in a direction that is absolutely right and urgent, supported by everyone, in the knowledge that this path is but a learning process... We have to keep on learning, creating, applying, by-passing, touching upon, refining and clarifying a number of notions and details that need to be improvised and applied and which, thank God, we cannot foresee. The only rigidity lies in our will, our conviction that we are on the right road and that our initiatives are most pressing.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Life, Lying, Creating

  "The Mandate". Book by Jacob Bergen, p. 33, 2006.

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• To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary.  These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail.  This is a revolution!  And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate.

  Che Guevara

  Hate, Men, Squad

  "The Cuban Revolution : Years of Promise". Book by Teo A. Babun and Victor Andres Triay, p. 57, 2005.

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