“ Details often kill initiative, but there have been few successful men who weren't good at details. Don't ignore details. Lick them. ”
- William B. Given Jr.- Copy
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“ Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. ”
- Heraclitus- Copy
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“ One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite — that particular peach is but a detail. ”
- Pablo Picasso- Copy
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“ The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events. ”
- Edward Gibbon- Copy
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“ After all, it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life. ”
- Evelyn Underhill- Copy
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“ Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind. ”
- Francois de Salignac Fenelon- Copy
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“ Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ Many blunder in business through inability or an unwillingness to adopt new ideas. I have seen many a success turn to failure also, because the thought which should be trained on big things is cluttered up with the burdensome detail of little things. ”
- Philip Delaney- Copy
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“ To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization. ”
- Harriet Beecher Stowe- Copy
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“ Imagination helps bring out the realism of every detail and only sees the beauties of the work. ”
- Honore de Balzac- Copy
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“ Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative. ”
- W. S. Gilbert- Copy
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“ One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail. ”
- Richard Russo- Copy
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“ Words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
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“ Detail makes the difference between boring and terrific writing. It's the difference between a pencil sketch and a lush oil painting. As a writer, words are your paint. Use all the colors. ”
- Rhys Alexander- Copy
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“ Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them over and over to yourself. ”
- Maxwell Maltz- Copy
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“ Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details. ”
- Andy Warhol- Copy
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“ Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another. ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
- 88
“ I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does. ”
- Jorge Luis Borges- Copy
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“ It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen. ”
- John Wooden- Copy
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“ It's the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class. ”
- Willard J. Marriott- Copy
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