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Suddenly, details seemed extremely important. Details were something to grab on to, a way to insert myself into the story.
Great entrepreneurs are often great listeners and they can spot patterns and pick up on small details in customer stories.
With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.
The man in charge must concern himself with details. If he does not consider them important, neither will his subordinates.
What I have learnt from my time at Barcelona is the invisible work that goes on off the pitch. It's about the fine details.
A knowledge of and the ability to properly and quickly execute the fundamentals. Be prepared and cover every little detail.
The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.
I see in [George H. W.] Bush a striving to be Reagan-like in the sense of having a big vision, and eschewing small details.
The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
It's amazing how much detail Catholics will go into documenting why people shouldn't do the things that they all do anyway.
I am not up there by chance. I am there by choice. And I know the wire. And I know my limits. And I am a madman of details.
There's nothing wrong with setting goals, but it doesn't mean a thing if you don't pay attention to the day-to-day details.
Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details.
It's beyond the grasp of anyone's memory to recall conversations in kind of [memoir] detail. So it's fake. It's all made up.
What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?
Susanne Alleyn's Game of Patience is a well-crafted historical mystery, authentic in every detail. Wonderfully entertaining.
Any one detail, followed through to its source, will usually reveal the general state of readiness of the whole organization.
I'm a little vague on the details but aren't doughnuts just the most marvellous thing to ever come out of organised religion?
I find sharing intimate details with people that you don't know an interesting concept. I like to keep some things to myself.
I'm saying is that I hope that you drill in with the same detail with his [Donald Trump] team as you're drilling in with ours.
Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.
Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.
How do we know that our life really happened and that we are not simply accumulating details, making it all up as we go along?
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.
The minister expressed appreciation for the offer, and our embassy in Uzbekistan will be following up in more detail with them
A tiny detail can make you feel completely different. I feel different if I wear something that I'm slightly uncomfortable in.
Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.
Forgetting your mission leads, inevitably, to getting tangled up in details-details that can take you completely off your path.
I see myself as the mind of the business which takes care of every last detail; if you do not do this you cannot be fast enough.
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.
I think, as a writer, you see the big picture, and as an actor, you're thinking of all the minutiae, all the very small details.
Ultimately, an aircraft owner does not want to have to deal with all the intricate details which are necessary for the business.
I'm like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.
Perhaps, if you knew you were going to die, your senses crammed in as much detail as they could while they still had the chance.
I love the detail about the workings of the human heart and mind that only fiction can provide - film can't get in close enough.
There's such an advantage to being involved in the day-to-day details of each other's lives. It's a marvelous fabric to exist in.
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.
Nothing is more consonant with Nature than that she puts into operation in the smallest detail that which she intends as a whole.
I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.
Personal revelation, consecration of performance, attention to detail, and dependency on God-with these qualities you cannot fail.
I face the camera every day as a student as there is a lot to learn. You become an actor when you put emphasis on smaller details.
All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.
Linebacker is a lot more detail oriented and you have to know a lot more than a defensive end necessarily would on any given play.
My Chinese side comes out in my dancing. There's a certain in-the-moment sentimentality, an appreciation for the smallest details.
The financial disclosure statements, they don't give you the tax rate. They don't give you all the details that tax returns would.
When I pay attention to the little details, such as matching accessories to the entire outfit, I only get more confident on stage.
If I was a guy I wouldn't be bossy, I would be strong. If I was a guy I wouldn't be a micro-manager, I would be across the detail.
Any Wall Street advertising that does not go into the boring details of methodology is most likely to be pushing past performance.
I can't write anything if I don't know where it's set, where the events are happening - even if the details of setting are minimal.
You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, "now everything else makes sense. Now I know where I am."