Details Quotes · Page 14

The essential feature of statistics is a prudent and systematic ignoring of details.

— Erwin Schrodinger

Large enterprises make the few rich, but the majority prosper only through the carefulness and detail of thrift.

— Theodore T. Munger

Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent.

— Roger Scruton

We must not forget that all great revolutions and reformations would look mean and meagre if examined in detail as they occurred…

— Lydia M. Child

Whatever the ups and downs of detail within our limited experience, the larger whole is primarily beautiful.

— Gregory Bateson

I mean, I think it would humanize Hillary [Clinton] incredibly to detail how she was involved in the family charitable organization.

— Rush Limbaugh

I don't agree with the libertarians. I want my security first. I'll deal with all the details after that.

— Trent Lott

It doesn't matter that I can't remember the details any longer: death happened to her. Death happens to all of us.

— Neil Gaiman

I talked to Woody Allen for half an hour or something. It was pretty incredible. He really went into lots of detail…

— Alden Ehrenreich

The pictures come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worthwhile picture I paint it I do…

— Horace Pippin

If you want to succeed always associate with winners, people who have understood something. You will notice that they all share something…

— Frederick Lenz

Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Everything she sang was true. I will leave it to you as to whether the truth can exist with details omitted, or…

— Robin Hobb

The issue of prohibiting pardons shouldn't be a political one, but a legal and moral one that relates to the details of…

— Ayelet Shaked

I think as I've gotten older, I've realized the more important details. Yes, you're going to make money. Yes, you're going to…

— Harrison Barnes

Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and…

— Joyce Carol Oates

The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the…

— Samuel Johnson

I suspect that any worthwhile exploration of these deep questions about living requires going beyond abstract discussions to the vivid presentation of…

— Philip Kitcher

“Some details in life may look insignificant but appear to be vital leitmotifs in a person's life. They may have the value…

— Erik Pevernagie

“Then Jip went up to the front of the ship and smelt the wind; and he started muttering to himself, "Tar; Spanish…

— Hugh Lofting

All these people that you meet or I meet, there's not a prayer in hell that they're ever going to run for…

— Mitch Albom

Bill Pullman is older than Aaron Eckhart - although I was older too - and the age difference changes the play. My…

— Julia Stiles

I think, when you are writing non-fiction, you feel there's an obligation to get it absolutely right, so all your factual details…

— Ronald Frame

If we look at life in its small details, how ridiculous it all seems. It is like a drop of water seen…

— Irvin D. Yalom

Much of life appears mundane at the time. Yet in God's providence every moment includes significant details arranged by His divine hand.

— Dillon Burroughs

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

— Rohinton Mistry

I have been subjected to unwarranted and invasive scrutiny of the most intimate and private details of my being.

— Caster Semenya

I've always been a people-watcher, and as an actor, later, I just mined all those little details.

— Sissy Spacek

Every little detail to every little movement must be perfect. Perfection in movement.

— Conor McGregor

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish…

— Ernest Hemingway

Ronaldo is a great professional. He truly cares about details. That's why he is always fit.

— Massimiliano Allegri

I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.

— Rita Dove

I'm tempted to do everything. And sometimes I think, "Oh, come on. You can stick that detail somewhere."

— Jim Shepard

We can all see God in exceptional things, but it requires the culture of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail.

— Oswald Chambers

Gears of War: Exile was an unannounced game that I can't give any details about that has since been cancelled.

— Cliff Bleszinski

I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility…

— Banksy

People know the broad strokes of what it's like to be Spider-Man, but I wanted to really get into the details.

— Jon Watts

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

— Ezra Taft Benson

But if you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I…

— Thomas Merton

Superficially insignificant or accidental looking detail (in art) may well carry the most important unconscious symbolism.

— Anton Ehrenzweig