Best Detail Quotes
602 Detail quotes by 541 unique authors
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Any chemist reading this book can see, in some detail, how I have spent most of my mature life. They can become familiar with the…
— Donald Cram
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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…
— Harrison Ford
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Confusion and clutter are failures of design, not attributes of information. And so the point is to find design strategies that reveal detail and complexity…
— Edward Tufte
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Beneath all the wealth of detail in a geological map lies an elegant, orderly simplicity.
— John Tuzo Wilson
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Every writer must reconcile, as best he may, the conflicting claims of consistency and variety, of rigour in detail and elegance in the whole. The…
— Julian Coolidge
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The field is a halfway house, halfway between the detail of those intimately known places and the ignorance of a landscape view ... The essence…
— Adam Nicolson
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Every climate scientist has his or her own views on some issues that differ from the mainstream in detail. But the broad findings of the…
— Ross Garnaut
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Whatever the ups and downs of detail within our limited experience, the larger whole is primarily beautiful.
— Gregory Bateson
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A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from the…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Here's a Challenge: Study a complicated topic in such detail that anyone interested can nod their head and understand as you explain specific concepts within…
— Albert Einstein
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A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable.
— Heather Donahue
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As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found…
— Joshua Lederberg
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
— Malcolm Bradbury
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Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all.
— James Mill
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Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.
— Louis Kronenberger
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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…
— Lion Feuchtwanger
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The devil is in the details, and everything we do in the military is a detail.
— Hyman Rickover
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I start with no preconceived idea - discovery excites me to focus - then rediscovery through the lens - final form of presentation seen on…
— Edward Weston
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I always choose an area that is of personal interest, but I don't plan my travels in detail. There are so many variables one cannot…
— Unknown Author
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The simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Every landscape is, as it were, a state of the soul, and whoever penetrates into both is astonished to find how much likeness there is…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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With the eventual acceptance of Darwin's theory we reach a modern understanding of nature, one which has since then changed in detail rather than in…
— Peter Singer
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All fiction relies on the real world in the sense that we all take in the world through our five senses and we accumulate details,…
— Rohinton Mistry
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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…
— Peggy Noonan
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A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for, a daunting testimony to that peculiar nation's love of detail and organization.
— Kingsley Amis
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