Top 63 Quotes About Small Details
#1. How was it that Adrian Ivashkov, who never seemed to take anything seriously was the only one among these "responsible" people who paid attention to such small details? How was he the only one to really understand the magnitude of what I was feeling?
Richelle Mead
#2. When I entertain at home, I take time and pleasure in the small details that make all the difference. Entertaining is about giving to people and sharing with them.
Valentino Garavani
#3. The director, Antoine Fuqua, relies on small details, which anchor the vigilante-as-saint myth in at least a minimal degree of reality.
David Denby
#4. 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.
David E. Hoffman
#5. In futsal, you see whether a player is really talented. You notice the small details in quality, class and tactical understanding.
Xavi
#6. Your love doesn't end because you find out that he's not related to you by blood. I believe that love transcends such small details as family lineage.
Delancey Stewart
#7. Garth on making his stories feel real "Things like armour, clothes and other small details are very important in building up the reality of the story... I do spend quite a lot of time on things like clothing, armour, weapons and try and make them feel real.
Garth Nix
#8. Life's small details are the ones that interest me, anyway. The big questions are too hard to parse.
Christina Baker Kline
#9. The beauty of life is in small details, not in big events.
Jim Jarmusch
#10. I find significance in all kinds of small details when I run; I'm hyper aware of my surroundings, the sensations in my body, and the thoughts running through my mind. Everything is clearer, heightened.
Kristin Armstrong
#11. Society has to get a grip and put a tax on carbon. Of course, there is much that flows from that, and it is a complex situation. The small details of something such as climate change are political and social, and they are a lot about fairness and how we rebalance towards a fairer society.
Richard Rogers
#12. I love 'Anna Karenina.' It's in the top five books on my list. Tolstoy is unsurpassed in combining the grand with the trivial, that is, the small details which make up life.
Susan Minot
#13. A new moon teaches gradualness
and deliberation and how one gives birth
to oneself slowly. Patience with small details
makes perfect a large work, like the universe.
Rumi
#14. As a writer you see the big picture and how you can tell as one character, how your storyline is going to meet up with all these other storylines. And as an actor you're thinking of all the minutiae, all the very small details.
Richard Dormer
#15. I think that one of the things that I can do is I seem to have the ability to zoom in super tight for very small details, but then jump back for sort of that big picture perspective. And I think that ultimately, that's one of my strengths, because you have - every detail matters.
Henry Selick
#16. The more unstable life is the less one likes the small details to alter.
Graham Greene
#17. I never make notes; just a few small details when I'm writing, but nothing much. The plot is never written down. I will tell the story to myself, but I won't plan it. I'll speak the narrative in my head for a while.
Ruth Rendell
#18. Happiness hides in life's small details. If you're not looking, it becomes invisible.
Joyce Brothers
#19. In big and small details, Jesus perfectly fulfilled the prophecies of the suffering servant.
Chris Bruno
#20. If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.
Ernest Hemingway,
#21. Whenever I'm writing a book, small details from my life always creep in.
Kevin Henkes
#22. It makes you observe small details; even if it's just a kid playing with his dad, if you watch them closely, you can use that in your work. It helps you fully understand people better.
Diogo Morgado
#23. When playing against big teams, it's the small details that count.
Luis Garcia
#24. [E]very job is composed of many small details, any one of which, if overlooked, can create big problems later.
Napoleon Hill
#25. Remember that often we will not know the small details of our life mission
Sunday Adelaja
#26. I've always been inspired by small details that make me wander. My mother would ask me, 'What are you looking at so intensely?' I would answer, 'Everything and nothing.' She really supported my wanderings, called me Marco Polo.
Mark Bradford
#27. Think boldly. Don't be afraid of making mistakes. Don't miss small details, keep your eyes open and be modest in everything except your aims.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
#28. Seinfeld has his way of telling jokes - and I'm not comparing myself to Seinfeld, his genius is observing the small details of everyday life and finding humor in it.
Nick Kroll
#29. The story ended with a moral: Large Enterprises Depend Upon Small Details. Jeremy couldn't see why it couldn't have just as well been: It's Wrong To Trap Nonexistent Women in Clocks, or: It Would Have Worked With A Glass Spring.
Terry Pratchett
#30. It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression.
Cary Grant
#31. Small details are a vital part of allowing a reader to make an imaginative connection with long dead historical figures.
Sara Sheridan
#32. People are made up of so many small details. Some - like the smell of cookies baking - we can recreate. Or at least try.
Victoria Schwab
#33. Great entrepreneurs are often great listeners and they can spot patterns and pick up on small details in customer stories.
Alexander Osterwalder
#34. Most of our lives aren't that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.
David Byrne
#35. I'm not sure I could write a straight urban fantasy any more than I could write a straight contemporary story. I would end up being intimidated by all the small details.
Anne Bishop
#36. The greater the scope in implementing an activity, the greater the need for strict attention to small details.
John Shirley
#37. But during the day ... that was life. The collection of small details that made up a shared day were what gave richness to what happened in the bed at night.
Anne Bishop
#38. I couldn't sleep for nights on end, as my brain felt like there were thoughts colliding within it; I obsessed over small details, from saving pennies and polishing each one of them to washing my clothing over and over in the washing machine.
Andy Behrman
#39. The small details of life often hide a great significance.
Margaret Atwood
#40. Great battles are really won before they are actually fought. To control our passions we must govern our habits, and keep watch over ourselves in the small details of everyday life.
John Lubbock
#41. I use a little brush only for really small details. Over the years, I've started to use a much larger brush.
Anthony Browne
#42. For me science is not different from art, except in the one small, crucial detail that experiments speak their own truths, not ours.
Nina Fedoroff
#43. We lie to ourselves about the smallest details, and we lie to ourselves about our largest life choices.
Cortney S. Warren
#44. Reality so often fails when it comes to small, satisfying details, she thought.
Terry Pratchett
#45. Perdition awaits at the end of a road constructed entirely from good intentions, the devil emerges from the details and hell abides in the small print.
Iain M. Banks
#46. To be a good researcher is to be a good detective, and I enjoy ferreting out tidbits of information. For a diary book like 'A Coal Miner's Bride,' newspapers come in handy for small everyday details such as weather reports.
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
#47. The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details.
William Hazlitt
#48. Our Heavenly Father is aware of our needs and will help us as we call upon Him for assistance. I believe that no concern of ours is too small or insignificant. The Lord is in the details of our lives.
Thomas S. Monson
#49. It takes the same effort to think small than to think big. But to think big frees you from the insignificant details.
Jorge Paulo Lemann
#50. The open zipper at the bottom revealed two important details: her ass was as luscious as he had imagined, and she wasn't wearing any panties. His palms started to sweat. How was he supposed to fasten her dress when all he wanted to do was tear it off?
Stacey O'Neale
#51. I learned no detail was too small. It was all about the details.
Brad Grey
#52. It is an ancient belief, going back to classical antiquity, that specialization of any kind is illiberal in a freeman. A man willing to bury himself in the details of some small endeavor has been considered lost to these larger considerations which must occupy the mind of the ruler.
Richard M. Weaver
#53. I'm not sure why, but when a person expects something to last forever, they don't notice the little things. It's only when the clock is ticking all those little things add up and become bigger.
Shannon Wiersbitzky
#54. Art's power of persuasion resides in the small personal details of one's own story, and if it weren't for my struggle with dyslexia, I doubt I'd ever have become a writer or known how to teach others to write.
Philip Schultz
#55. You can decide to invade Russia at dinner, pick Waterloo for battle on a whim. It's the details, the small stuff. Its easy to gamble a million lives. Whats hard is to see how that can hurt one single person. And if you cant keep that straight, hell, you'll lose your humanity.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#56. To our Creator, a small detail is a big deal.
Todd Stocker
#57. The idea of photography as evidence is pure bullshit. A photo is no more proof of any reality than what you may hear being said by someone in a bus. We only record details, small fragments of the world.
Marc Riboud
#58. You've got to make an effort to get the details right, because even through someone picks it up and knows it's a novel, they know someone's made it up and they know it's not real, if you make a small mistake they will cease to imaginatively engage with the story.
Sara Sheridan
#59. The well being of democracies regardless of their type and status is dependent on one small technical detail: The right to vote. Everything else is secondary.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#60. The Christian faith is meant to be lived moment by moment. It isn't some broad, general outline
it's a long walk with a real Person. Details count: passing thoughts, small sacrifices, a few encouraging words, little acts of kindness, brief victories over nagging sins.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#61. I think it's the small things, the smaller episodes and details that I linger on and try to draw meaning from, just personally.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#62. To die for a cause is easy, to live, to be steady day after day doing the small things, taking care of the details, knowing you will be forgotten by history and still choosing to do so, that is real courage
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