Details Quotes - Page 9

Molecular genetics, our latest wonder, has taught us to spell out the connectivity of the tree of life in such palpable detail that we may say in plain words, "This riddle of life has been solved."

As soon as we surrender the principle that the state should not interfere in any questions touching on the individuals mode of life, we end by regulating and restricting the latter down to the smallest details.

Forgetting your mission leads, inevitably, to getting tangled up in details-details that can take you completely off your path.

I learned a lot about the images of pornography and how much they dealt with close-up, when a person is at their most vulnerable and having to reveal details about themselves. I wanted to combine the eternal in two different manners. There is the biological eternal - here is our species reproducing - and then the transparent, spiritual aspect of it.

Every landscape is, as it were, a state of the soul, and whoever penetrates into both is astonished to find how much likeness there is in each detail.

The smudging makes the paintings a bit more complete. When they're not blurred, so many details seem wrong, and the whole thing is wrong too. Then smudging can help make the painting invincible, surreal, more enigmatic - that's how easy it is.

Most people consider themselves above the gritty and relentless details of life that allow the creation of great wealth. They leave it to the experts. But in general you join the one percent of the one percent not by leaving it to the experts but by creating new expertise, not by knowing what the experts know but by learning what they think is beneath them.

The smaller the detail the greater the value.

I entirely agree that a historian ought to be precise in detail; but unless you take all the characters and circumstances into account, you are reckoning without the facts. The proportions and relations of things are just as much facts as the things themselves.

Achievers can almost literally taste success because they imagine their goals in such vivid detail. Setbacks only seem to add spice and favor to the final taste of victory.

The sane understand that human beings are incapable of sustaining conspiracies on a grand scale, because some of our most defining qualities as a species are inattention to detail, a tendency to panic, and an inability to keep our mouths shut.

Attention to detail is of utmost importance when you want to look good.

Far from being accidental details, the properties of nature's basic building blocks are deeply entwined with the fabric of space and time.

The artist's interest cannot be restricted to a single field; he must seek the highest perception of everything, of the whole and its details.

Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.

The truth is in the details.

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

Children don't make judgments about which details are important... a child captures them all.

Nothing in our lives is a mere insignificant detail to God.

National security is a serious matter and I do not think it is in proper to discuss such details in a public forum.

How few people will realize how much detail had to be gone into before Bakelite was a commercial success.

A good banker isn't careless with pennies; a good leader isn't sloppy about details.

Suppose we were to teach creationism. What would be the content of the teaching? Merely that a creator formed the universe and all species of life ready-made? Nothing more? No details?

The audience loves it when you pay attention to details.