Details Quotes - Page 6

There are two phases of enjoyment in journeying through an unknown country - the eager phase of wondering interest in every detail, and the relaxed phase when one feels no longer an observer of the exotic, but a participator in the rhythm of daily life.

We see what we see because we miss all the finer details.

My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.

What I really want is a creative person. You can always hire a Ph.D. to take care of the details.

Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.

Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it.

"Well, we were always going to fail that one," said Ron gloomily as they ascended the marble staircase. He had just made Harry feel rather better by telling him how he told the examiner in detail about the ugly man with a wart on his nose in the crystal ball, only to look up and realize he had been describing the examiner's reflection.

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.

Know the philosophy, know the details, and ignore everything in the middle.

Memory is the most malicious cutter of all, preserving, recasting, panning in slow motion across the awful bits so that we retain every detail.

And no, I'm not a walking C++ dictionary. I do not keep every technical detail in my head at all times. If I did that, I would be a much poorer programmer. I do keep the main points straight in my head most of the time, and I do know where to find the details when I need them.

If you look at coastlines, if you look at that them from far away, from an airplane, well, you don't see details, you see a certain complication. When you come closer, the complication becomes more local, but again continues. And come closer and closer and closer, the coastline becomes longer and longer and longer because it has more detail entering in.

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

The surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by being specific, definitive, and concrete. The greatest writers - Homer, Dante, Shakespeare - are effective largely because they deal in particulars and report the details that matter. Their words call up pictures.

Im share a lot of details, but 98 percent of my life is still private.

People have criticized me because my security detail is larger than the president's. But you must ask yourself: are there more people who want to kill me than who want to kill the president? I can assure you there are.

Then he reflected that reality does not usually coincide with our anticipation of it; with a logic of his own he inferred that to forsee a circumstantial detail is to prevent its happening. Trusting in this weak magic, he invented, so that they would not happen, the most gruesome details.

You don't know why God has put that person in your path. It's not a coincidence. He's strategically lined up every person, every detail and every step of your life. Now do your part--don't miss an opportunity to do good for others.

I miss the days when faith was discussed in public and not the most intimate details of our personal lives.

The Devil is in the details, but so is salvation.

Faithfulness to principle is only proved by faithfulness in detail.

Nothing works without details. They are everything, the baseline of quality

I am a great fan of the universe, which I take literally: as one. All of it interests me, and it interests me in detail.

When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if they'd even just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge.

Do not fight the thing in detail: turn from it. Look ONLY at your Lord. Sing. Read. Work.