Small Details Quotes

• It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Courage

  John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• The beauty of life is in small details, not in big events.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Events, Details, Life Is

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Happiness hides in life’s small details. If you’re not looking, it becomes invisible.

  Joyce Brothers

  Inspirational, Details, Invisible

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• It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression.

  Cary Grant

  Details, Add, Impression

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The game is won or lost on hundreds of small details.

  William Zinsser

  Games, Details, Lost

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

  Napoleon Hill

  Jobs, Details, Problem

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.72, Penguin

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• In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture.

  Anton Chekhov

  Writing, Eye, Details

  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1987). “The Unknown Chekhov: Stories and Other Writings”

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• The correct word is like any small detail - it enhances life.

  Alexandra Stoddard

  Details

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• A new moon teaches gradualness
  and deliberation and how one gives birth
  to oneself slowly. Patience with small details
  makes perfect a large work, like the universe.
  What nine months of attention does for an embryo
  forty early mornings will do for your gradually growing wholeness

  Rumi

  Morning, Moon, Giving

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• If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Details, Finished

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• Think boldly. Don't be afraid of making mistakes. Don't miss small details, keep your eyes open and be modest in everything except your aims.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Life, Mistake, Eye

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• When playing against big teams, it's the small details that count.

  Luis Garcia

  Team, Details, Bigs

  Interview with Ryan Bailey, bleacherreport.com. April 17, 2015.

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

  David Byrne

  Drama, Details, Exciting

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• Great battles are really won before they are actually fought. To control our passions we must govern our habits, and keep watch over ourselves in the small details of everyday life.

  John Lubbock

  Passion, Everyday, Battle

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• I find significance in all kinds of small details when I run; I'm hyper aware of my surroundings, the sensations in my body, and the thoughts running through my mind. Everything is clearer, heightened. I might be more addicted to this clarity than I am to running itself.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Running, Mind, Details

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• For the 99 percent of the time we've been on Earth, we were hunter and gatherers, our lives dependent on knowing the fine, small details of our world. Deep inside, we still have a longing to be reconnected with the nature that shaped our imagination, our language, our song and dance, our sense of the divine.

  Janine Benyus

  Song, Nature, Our World

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• Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to himself, all his progress should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition. Alas, the artist who waits in ambush there, watching, detaining them, will find them transformed like the beautiful gold in the fairy tale which cannot remain gold because some small detail was not taken care of.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Beautiful, Taken, Creativity

  Letter to his wife (October 21, 1907). "Letters on Cézanne". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke, 1952.

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• The naturalist is a civilized hunter. He goes alone into the field or woodland and closes his mind to everything but that time and place, so that life around him presses in on all the senses and small details grow in significance. He begins the scanning search for which cognition was engineered. His mind becomes unfocused, it focuses on everything, no longer directed toward any ordinary task or social pleasantry.

  E. O. Wilson

  Mind, Ordinary, Details

  "Biophilia". Book by E. O. Wilson, 1984.

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• In futsal, you see whether a player is really talented. You notice the small details in quality, class and tactical understanding.

  Xavi

  Player, Class, Understanding

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• Cut like crazy. Less is more. I've often read manuscripts - including my own - where I've got to the beginning of, say, chapter two and have thought: “This is where the novel should actually start.” A huge amount of information about character and backstory can be conveyed through small detail. The emotional attachment you feel to a scene or a chapter will fade as you move on to other stories. Be business-like about it.

  Sarah Waters

  Crazy, Moving, Character

  "Ten rules for writing fiction (part two)" by Hilary Mantel, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• If we look at life in its small details, how ridiculous it all seems. It is like a drop of water seen through a microscope, a single drop teeming with protozoa. How we laugh as they bustle about so eagerly and struggle with one another. Whether here, or in the little span of human life, this terrible activity produces a comic effect

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Struggle, Water, Laughing

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• Now when naturalists observe a close agreement in numerous small details of habits, tastes and dispositions between two or more domestic races, or between nearly-allied natural forms, they use this fact as an argument that all are descended from a common progenitor who was thus endowed; and consequently that all should be classed under the same species. The same argument may be applied with much force to the races of man.

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Two, Race

  Charles Darwin (1872). “The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex”, p.225

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• How was it that Adrian Ivashkov, who never seemed to take anything seriously was the only one among these "responsible" people who paid attention to such small details? How was he the only one to really understand the magnitude of what I was feeling?

  Richelle Mead

  People, Feelings, Details

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.89, Penguin

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• In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. For instance, you'll have a moonlit night if you write that on the mill dam a piece of glass from a broken bottle glittered like a bright little star, and that the black shadow of a dog or a wolf rolled past like a ball.

  Anton Chekhov

  Dog, Stars, Eye

  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1987). “The Unknown Chekhov: Stories and Other Writings”

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• As a writer you see the big picture and how you can tell as one character, how your storyline is going to meet up with all these other storylines. And as an actor you're thinking of all the minutiae, all the very small details.

  Richard Dormer

  Character, Thinking, Details

  Source: www.esquire.com

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