Quotes About Attention To Detail

#1. Success in any endeavor requires single-minded attention to detail and total concentration.

Willie Sutton

#2. There is the flash in the pan, the sudden success. But continued success is dependent upon tremendous attention to detail.

Frederick Lenz

#3. If there are spelling and grammatical errors, assume that the same level of attention to detail probably went into the gathering and reporting of the "facts" given on the site.

Randolph Hock

#4. I had a really good time with Martha Stewart, who also is somebody I really admire a lot. I've learned a lot from her and I think all of America has, about attention to detail and using fresh ingredients and making things beautiful and special.

Ted Allen

#5. There is space for a different kind of investigative reporting that's about immersion and obsessive attention to detail and deep listening.

Sarah Stillman

#6. If you want to succeed always associate with winners, people who have understood something. You will notice that they all share something in common, tremendous attention to detail in their personal lives and associations.

Frederick Lenz

#7. And no, I am not capable of experiencing the present with the same sort of attention to detail. But once the present becomes the past I seem to have no problem attending to it obsessively. : )

Melanie Gideon

#8. I think in any writing you're paying attention to detail.

Peter Matthiessen

#9. I'll negotiate with toughness, and with great attention to detail to get the best possible deal for Britain. It's only when we are outside the European Union that we can at last bring those numbers [of migrants] under control in the way that the public want.

Michael Gove

#10. I suppose that was an example of close attention to detail that is common to writers and artists. It is imperative, whether consciously or not, that one observe the vast as well as the infinitesimal in order to create the image or choose accurate words that ring true.

Elizabeth Winder

#11. The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.

Harrison Ford

#12. Thus with most careful devotion Thus with precise attention To detail, interfering preparation Of that which is already prepared Men lighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding, Reflecting a pocket-torch of observation ...

T. S. Eliot

#13. It's attention to detail that makes the difference between average and stunning,

Francis Atterbury

#14. I like to think that I've gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it's stayed the same.

Al Yankovic

#15. My fancy dress costume of choice is ... something 1920s or 30s, when there was still so much elegance and attention to detail. An excuse for ultimate dressing-up indulgence.

Ellie Goulding

#16. I'm a huge Hayao Miyazaki fan. He might be my favorite director of all time - the beauty that he sees in the world and the attention to detail. I try and focus on that while making music: trying to use as many real instruments as possible, have it feel as tactile and tangible as possible.

St. Lucia

#17. I began to use the same principles-observation, consistency, and attention to detail, to try to communicate with other birds. Through experimentation with what worked and what didn't, I learned that if I'm patient and alert, the bird will let me know what it wants.

Michele Raffin

#18. It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.

Alan Perlis

#19. In moviemaking, you learn to pay attention to detail, because so much is in the detail. And when you're shooting, you try to be very alert to what's going on, even if you're tired.

Frederick Wiseman

#20. Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.

Taylor Hicks

#21. Frank [Zappa] said he probably would have been a major criminal, given his brain power and his attention to detail, had he not been a composer. But being a composer is not something you can't help.

Gail Zappa

#22. It's easy to become careless when making rough comparisons, but the alternative is a prissy attention to detail that takes all the fun out of writing.

Stephen King

#23. He [Christ] even restored the severed ear of the soldier who came to arrest Him - a fact that allows us to hope the resurrection will reflect a considerable attention to detail.

Marilynne Robinson

#24. Pay close attention to detail in whatever it is you are doing. Be specific and expect quality from your performance.

Robert Cheeke

#25. My height doesn't define my skill set. To be a great quarterback, you have to have great leadership, great attention to detail and a relentless competitive nature - and I try to bring that on a daily basis.

Russell Wilson

#26. There are lots of stories in pop music, lots of lush orchestrations, lots of attention to detail. You just have to know where to find them. The best stuff is never overt.

Stephanie D'Abruzzo

#27. Personal power is really the issue. It is only through tremendous attention to detail that you will be able to gain personal power and searing self-honesty.

Frederick Lenz

#28. I don't like this idea
It is too much focus
on something I am trying to forget
I am afraid
that this attention to detail
will only fuel my anxiety

Samantha Schutz

#29. There's just something about women and shoes, it's the luxury, it's the femininity and it's the attention to detail. You can put a lot of work into your dress but if you have the right shoe and bag then you feel good.

Nicole Kidman

#30. When I was 10, we drove to Disney World. When we arrived, what impressed me most was the meticulous attention to detail; there wasn't a gum wrapper anyplace.

Jason Kilar

#31. Chef Matt Accarrino has the best pasta in San Francisco, and Shelley Lindgren is one of my favorite sommeliers. Their attention to detail in the service, food, and amazing wines will blow anyone away.

Elizabeth Falkner

#32. Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be.

Fernando Pessoa

#33. Attention to detail can't be (and never is) added later. It's an entire development philosophy, methodology, and culture.

Marco Arment

#34. Another thing all writers have in common is we're all observers. We pay attention to detail.

Judy Blume

#35. When I see myself in the videogame it's amazing how realistic I look. This is the most authentic and realistic soccer game I have ever seen. It is like I'm looking in a mirror. The attention to detail is incredible.

Claudio Reyna

#36. We can remind ourselves of the reasons to strive for good style: to enhance the spread of ideas, to exemplify attention to detail, and to add to the beauty of the world.

Steven Pinker

#37. Even a dull life could make worthwhile reading, he said, provided the writer paid sufficient attention to detail.

Susan Hubbard

#38. The man's oral skills were off the chart. Such attention to detail. And the enthusiasm - the man was starving and I was his meal.

Anonymous

#39. attention to detail is the key to survival;

Peter Hunt

#40. Laymen learn to read photographs the way they do headlines, skipping over them quickly to get the gist of what is being said. Photographers, on the other hand, study them with the care and attention to detail one might give to a difficult scientific paper or a complicated poem.

Howard S. Becker

#41. Simple ingredients can be used to make elegant dishes with just a little extra attention to detail.

Marcus Samuelsson

#42. She giggled. "Excellent attention to detail.

Kiera Cass

#43. It was not by gentle sweetness and self-abnegation that order was brought out of chaos; it was by strict method, by stern discipline, by rigid attention to detail, by ceaseless labor, by the fixed determination of an indomitable will.

Lytton Strachey

#44. I'm not an easy customer. My attention to detail could probably drive you mad. My eye still always goes toward the single flaw.

L'Wren Scott

#45. I try to really take my art serious, and pay attention to detail.

Chali 2na

#46. As a coach, your high standards of performance, attention to detail and - above all - how hard you work set the stage for how your players perform.

Don Shula

#47. With practice, you build the road to accomplish your goals. Excellence lives in attention to detail. Give your all, all the time. Don't save anything for the walk home.

Ethan Hawke

#48. When you pay attention to detail, the big picture will take care of itself.

Georges St-Pierre

#49. Like many people out there, I'm inspired by the level of attention to detail, design and execution of Apple products.

Ren Ng

#50. The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.

Charles R. Swindoll

#51. A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.

John Foster Dulles

#52. I wrote three novels in six months, with a clarity of focus and attention to detail that I had never before experienced. This type of sublime creative energy is characteristic of the elevated and productive mood state known as hypomania.

Ayelet Waldman

#53. Fastidious attention to detail makes the difference between an OK service and first class service.

Ben Elliot

#54. What careful planning, what painstaking attention to detail, goes into extinguishing a man's life! Far more than the hit-or-miss, haphazard circumstances of igniting it.
("New York Blues")

Cornell Woolrich

#55. I suppose that I was a kind of consultant for taste. Is it good taste? Or bad taste? I had an attention to detail, to what would tell best the story. Because many people get excited about the work and drift off from the story.

John Hench

#56. Their errors showed poor attention to detail, ignorance and a bad attitude.

Bernard C. Lamb

#57. So if you want a culture where people work hard, & pay attention to detail, focus on the customer, are frugal: you have to do it yourself.

Sam Altman

#58. Behind all political success is attention to detail." LARRY O'BRIEN, adviser to John F. Kennedy

Catherine Shaw

#59. Attention to detail is the secret of success in every sphere of life, and little kindnesses, little acts of consideration, little appreciations, little confidences, ... they are all that are needed to keep the friendship sweet.

Hugh Black

#60. There's a joy and a pain about directing where the dreams you have are becoming concrete but the attention to detail, the need for time is such that it's overwhelming at times, and the stream of responsibility.

William Shatner

#61. It's an honour to have such a wonderful international cast on board for this world famous murder mystery. Writer Stewart Harcourt has created an exquisite script. His attention to detail is impeccable.

David Suchet

#62. I think to be a great quarterback, you have to have a great leadership, great attention to detail, and a relentless competitive nature. And that's what I try to bring to the table, and I have a long way to go. I'm still learning, and I'm still on a constant quest for knowledge.

Russell Wilson

#63. Michael Jackson was the biggest star the world has ever seen - he put so much into everything; a lot of attention to detail. I want to do that. I want to pay that kind of attention to detail in everything - in music, visually - all of that.

Kris Allen

#64. When you're so close to material, it would be as if you had come out of a bad marriage. You would be so close to it that you would be paying attention to detail that may not mean a whole lot for the reader.

Tim O'Brien

#65. Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.

Rachel Nichols

#66. We are all afraid. That's the thing that unites all truly successful people: fear, fear of failing, fear of criticism, fear of letting down the team in some way. That why they try so hard, that's why they pay attention to detail and try to get every possible duck in a row. It's fear

Peggy Noonan

#67. I take my personal upkeep real seriously; my sense of organization and attention to detail; my memory; my business - I love the business.

David Lee Roth

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

Carolina Herrera

#69. Money is the most corrosive aspect of life today because it means that all attention to detail is forgotten.

Roberto Cavalli

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

Ezra Taft Benson

#71. The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail.

David O. Selznick

#72. I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to whether my presentation of historical facts was an exact one.

Lion Feuchtwanger

#73. When I get on a plane, I don't want a laid-back pilot. I want a pilot who is a control freak, who is paying attention to every single detail of his job.

Michael Ovitz

#74. I like to read in my own house, in any of the rooms I always mean to paint or otherwise improve and never do. Every detail is so familiar to me that it makes almost no claim on my attention.

Marilynne Robinson

#75. Just a few weeks before, no detail of my life had been big enough to merit my attention.

Amor Towles

#76. And then it happened. It was a detail, no more than that. A detail to which you pay no attention at first. That takes on meaning only later. In retrospect.

Herman Koch

#77. She found that if she paid extremely careful attention to what was around her, really concentrating, and noticing every detail, the terror would fall back.

Marisa De Los Santos

#78. I'd give anything right now to go back, even just for a few moments, so I could pay more attention. Inscribe every detail of him, and of us together, onto my heart, where I could keep it safe always. Where even time couldn't erase it.

Jessi Kirby

#79. What I mean is, this is not just a woman's story. It's what happens to a lot of us, if we are lucky enough to hear that detail and pay attention

Elizabeth Strout

#80. People say that soundstage sets never quite look like reality. But actually, they can. They can be as real as you want as long as you pay attention to the kind of detail that is given for free in a real place.

Lenny Abrahamson

#81. The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion ... open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.

Orhan Pamuk

#82. I like it when people are driven. I love that in any field of work, in architecture or whatever. Like Lorne Michaels - he pays attention to every detail.

Fred Armisen

#83. I could go insane if I obsessed over every little detail of all of my companies. My management philosophy is to pay attention to the vital few and ignore the trivial many.

John Paul DeJoria

#84. Science fiction fans are the smartest fans in television. They just are. They're just so smart, and they know so much detail and information. They're a part of the story and they inform your character, as well. We all listen to the fans, and we love their feedback and the attention they give us.

Azita Ghanizada

#85. If one person in a group of ten is missing the tip of his little finger, I will notice it almost immediately. This extreme attention to visual detail is not a virtue, just a fact of my person. It happens seemingly involuntarily and strikes me as neither good nor bad.

Rosemary Mahoney

#86. If Swaraj is to be had by peaceful methods, it will only be attained by attention to every little detail of national life.

Mahatma Gandhi

#87. He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession.

Ian Fleming

#88. Father may have been wanting in some things, but here he was masterful. Night upon night, I marveled at his power to hold listeners in rapt attention. He could tell a story with such detail, such flourish, that afterwards a man could swear it had been his own memory, and not a tale at all.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#89. In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

Lou Holtz

#90. A deep connection starts with interest, open-mindedness, & paying attention to every detail including flaws.

April Mae Monterrosa

#91. Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.

Samuel Alexander