Details Quotes · Page 16

Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail.

— Rudolf Arnheim

[E]very job is composed of many small details, any one of which, if overlooked, can create big problems later.

— Napoleon Hill

Great entrepreneurs are often great listeners and they can spot patterns and pick up on small details in customer stories.

— Alexander Osterwalder

I hyperfocus on details that may feel very irrelevant to other people, and rightfully so, but I'm just like a psychotic journaler.

— Gracie Abrams

I like to be a little different. I like details. Whatever I wear, I always have a say.

— Caroline Wozniacki

I probably make my team crazy with the questions I ask, but you really have to understand the deep details to be…

— Jamie S. Miller

With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.

— Robert Morgan

I'm not a perfectionist. I don't have enough patience to go over the same details over and over trying to get it…

— Phil Elverum

Pornography is the quadraphonics of sex. It adds a third and fourth track to the sexual act. It is the hallucination of…

— Jean Baudrillard

Confusion and clutter are failures of design, not attributes of information. And so the point is to find design strategies that reveal…

— Edward Tufte

If you're still wondering about details - how am I going to get these two to meet, or whatever - when you're…

— John Irving

While claiming advocacy, what hoaxers really exhibit is self-interest. Often, this is because there is only the self to support their false…

— Kevin Young

I am interested in details. If you go into anything far enough, you get into the details of it, and people turn…

— Andy Rooney

I fiercely protect my privacy. I just don't think it's everyone's business to know every little detail about my life. That's just…

— Joan Jett

A bold architectural statement turns a public building into a landmark, but it is in the details where the architect becomes the…

— Curtis W. Fentress

I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the…

— Isaac Asimov

A mismatched outfit, a slightly defective denture, an exquisite mediocrity of the soul-those are the details that make a woman real, alive.…

— Milan Kundera

Marcel Duchamp, one of this century's pioneers, moved his work through the retinal boundaries which had been established with Impressionism into a…

— Jasper Johns

People have to see it for what it is, but they would be so shocked to know two simple things that I…

— Adrian Peterson

A photographer’s eye is perpetually evaluating. A photographer can bring coincidence of line simply by moving his head a fraction of a…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

There are more than 300,000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The…

— Harry Connick, Jr

Jazz spent a chunk of the day fantasizing about ways to kill his grandmother, plotting them and planning them in the most…

— Barry Lyga

(Offensive Coach) Paul Hackett realized that Joe Montana knew more about the offense than he did, but when the meeting was over,…

— Tony Dungy

Superficial knowledge ... is hurtful to those who possess true genius; for it necessarily draws them away from their main object, wastes…

— Luc de Clapiers

Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.

— Anonymous

The studio keeps notes on the details of editions and production processes and the like.

— Patricia Piccinini

He [Phil Jackson] is such a basketball genius in terms of the details of the game, the little nuances of the game…

— Kobe Bryant

“Most people will focus on too much detail, but in doing so situations can become more complicated and in some cases exasperating.”

— Steven Redhead

All religions were, at bottom, one, though they differed in detail and outward form like the leaves on a tree.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

— Theophile Gautier

Planning a wedding seems easy, but there are a lot of details to think of.

— Maryse Mizanin

I love anything really feminine. I love any sort of girly detail - anything with a bow or a heart on it,…

— Lauren Conrad

I look for ambiguous messages to illustrate...I like some detail but not too much detail.

— Sophie Blackall

My faith and reason tell me that God created the world, and I'm not particularly interested in the details. I'll find out…

— Ann Coulter

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

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.

— Tom Hanks

When it comes to art, money is an unimportant detail. It just happens to be a huge unimportant detail.

— Iggy Pop

The music that of common speech but slanted so that each detail sounds unexpected as a sharp inserted in a simple scale.

— Dana Gioia

I think a lot of philosophers get so absorbed and distracted from the real matters of the world that they get lost…

— Pam Gems

Podcasting is a personal medium, and I savour those moments where details of the podcasters' lives glint through.

— David Hepworth