There is, perhaps, one universal truth about all forms of human cognition: the ability to deal with knowledge is hugely exceeded by… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the original, and a great… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Once you write a book, you hand it over to the readers, and it's their book then. They're so involved. They ask… — Fiona Barton Copy Share Image
It's amazing, the amount of detail and thought that goes into just an average day. Between the things you see on the… — David Gray Copy Share Image
I grew up reading thrillers. Honestly, I was always drawn to the very detailed ones like Patricia Cornwell. I love details. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Nature is full of drama. I know nothing about biology, about birds, about insects, about the details of politics. I just make… — Jacques Perrin Copy Share Image
A still image attracts the viewer with an overall impact, then reveals smaller details upon further study. — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
Good and evil and beauty and ugliness are only ornamental fruits of perspective, whose sole value lies in their linkage to what… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
As an exercise in appreciation, try for one hour to feel grateful for every single thing you find yourself doing. When you… — Zelig Pliskin Copy Share Image
Comedy historians take note: this Gottfried character doesn't have the best eye for detail - and, for a Jew, he doesn't have… — Gilbert Gottfried Copy Share Image
The only thing that's different between high profile or celebrity divorces is that you have to do all you can to keep… — Laura Wasser Copy Share Image
There's a tendency at the senior and middle-manager level to be too big-picturish and too superficial. There is a phrase, "The devil… — Andy Grove Copy Share Image
A sure sign of an amateur is too much detail to compensate for too little life. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
Most of us have lost that sense of unity of biosphere and humanity which would bind and reassure us all with an… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
So, for a book set in 2006, Open City evades certain markers, while it embraces certain others. Julius doesn't use a smartphone,… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I totally have the ability to laugh at myself. I don't think one should take oneself seriously, ever. As long as you… — Alia Bhatt Copy Share Image
Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I am someone who places great value on the detail. That was always the case, even in my days as a racing… — Niki Lauda Copy Share Image
In its jolly mission to expose the dark underbelly of the children’s book world, Wild Things! turns up stories I’ve been hearing… — Paul O. Zelinsky Copy Share Image
I don't like sweating the details, and I'm pretty disorganized. To be a better leader, I need to stay on top of… — Scott Weiss Copy Share Image
Everyone underestimates their own life. Funny thing is, in the end, all our stories...they're the same. In fact, no matter where you… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
The story of this man who had killed a messenger and hanged himself would make interesting reading. One could almost write a… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
When you see a successful individual, a champion, you can be very sure that you are looking at an individual who pays… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
