Details Quotes - Page 16

A formal and consistent theory of inductive processes cannot represent the operation of every human mind in detail; it will represent an ideal mind, but it will help the actual mind to approximate that ideal.

Sherlock: You're keeping a SCRAPBOOK. Only old ladies and pre-pubescent girls keep scrapbooks, John. John: It's not a scrapbook, Sherlock. I'm collecting papers relevant to the cases. It helps me remember the details. And it was locked away in my desk drawer. Sherlock: The lock on your desk drawer was insulting me with its pretense at security.

I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece.

The magic behind every outstanding performance is always found in the smallest of details.

One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.

I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives.

Personal revelation, consecration of performance, attention to detail, and dependency on God-with these qualities you cannot fail.

I saw in details while she saw in scope. Not seeing the scope is why I am here and she is not. I took each element spearately and never looked to see that they never did fit together properly

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.

Don't go into great detail describing places and things, unless you're ­Margaret Atwood and can paint scenes with language. You don't want descriptions that bring the action, the flow of the story, to a standstill.

With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome.

As an actor, you can have your own backstory and prepare all the details that you need to know for your character.

Art is all in the details.

Do your homework in advance about the actual travel details so transportation issues do not define your holiday.

If you look at Gothic detailing right down to the bottom of a column or the capital of a column, it's a small version of the whole building; that's why, like dating the backbones of a dinosaur, a good historian can look at a detail of a Gothic building and tell you exactly what the rest of the building was, and infer the whole from the parts.

If a warrior needs solace he simply chooses anyone and expresses to that person every detail of his turmoil. After all, the warrior is not seeking to be understood or helped; by talking he's merely relieving himself of his pressure.

Writing in a nuanced way, getting at all the details in a way that remains interesting for the reader, is very difficult.

Who doesn't love a statement sock? I mean, we won't go in to details, but your underwear has to be bright, too.

I think we will have continuing danger from these markets and that we will have repeats of the financial crisis - [they] may differ in details but there will be significant financial downturns and disasters attributed to this regulatory gap, over and over, until we learn from experience

I won't go into detail but this animated one, the story line is very cool and the kids seem to love it.

You don't go to other books and take little pieces because although say a romantic scene may have been many times before all the details of who it is, where it is, are so intertwined in that text that it's easier to write it from scratch.

When working on a period, it is the finer details that evoke imagery that helps in cinematic adaptations.

As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and then fill in the episodes and amplify in detail.

Primo Levi's - I mean, he's a very different kind of writer. He's a much more formal writer. He's a much more -almost detached. I mean, I wouldn't really say that he's detached ultimately. But he does write as a scientist, and so he describes things very - in great detail, very carefully.

I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.