Details Quotes - Page 13

‎Be careful not to keep your eyes glued to detail. Stand far enough away to get a perspective of the whole.

Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all.

The literature now is so opaque to the average person that you couldn't take a science-fiction short story that's published now and turn it into a movie. There'd be way too much ground work you'd have to lay. It's OK to have detail and density, but if you rely on being a lifelong science-fiction fan to understand what the story is about, then it's not going to translate to a broader audience.

I'm afraid Dr. Mondrick chose an unfortunate publicity device. After all, the theory of human evolution is no longer front page news. Every known detail of the origin of mankind is extremely important to such a specialist as Dr. Mondrick, but it doesn't interest the man in the street - not unless it's dramatized.

Make the short story tremendously succinct - with a very short pulse or rhythm - and the closest selection of detail - in other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form

The social side of Washington was to be taken for granted as three-fourths of existence. Politics and reform became the detail, and waltzing the profession

I'm fussy. I'm stubborn. I want all the little details and I don't want to look like anyone else - that to me is very important.

The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.

Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.

I have been watching and drawing the surface of Mars. It is wonderfully full of detail. There is certainly no question about there being mountains and large greatly elevated plateaus.

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?

I'm not one that just throws music out there to keep it coming, and all that. I believe in the craft, and the time it takes to really nurture something and put a lot of effort into the details.

When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.

I always have wanted to know how the whole thing was done, what the process involved. And I don't particularly enjoy that my music is stripped of ancillary details, and it just sort of comes out of this big tap called the Internet like water. I like some of my water to be neatly presented in a bottle. With a label on it.

Transparency and detail are everything in science.

The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail

I learned everything I ever need to know about questioning artful dodgers by covering the most artful of them all, Ronald Reagan. For Reagan, performance was as much a part of governing as understanding the details of the federal budget.

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

Success is in the details.

A tiny detail can make you feel completely different. I feel different if I wear something that I'm slightly uncomfortable in.

A sure sign of an amateur is too much detail to compensate for too little life.

That's the kind of movie that I like to make, where there is an invented reality and the audience is going to go someplace where hopefully they've never been before. The details, that's what the world is made of.

Caress the detail, the divine detail.

I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details.

In civilizational issues you don't look at the tiny details as the debate. You have to look at the big picture!