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602 Detail quotes by 541 unique authors
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Well, I don't know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I'm no real philosopher in the sense of knowing what these people…
— Roger Penrose
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Juliet is one of those rare novels that has it all: lush prose, tightly intertwined parallel narratives, intrigue, and historical detail all set against a…
— Sara Gruen
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When I get on a plane, I don't want a laid-back pilot. I want a pilot who is a control freak, who is paying attention…
— Michael Ovitz
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As a coach, your high standards of performance, attention to detail and - above all - how hard you work set the stage for how…
— Don Shula
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Every now and then we enter the presence of the numinous and deduce for an instant how we're formed, in what detail the force that…
— Mary Karr
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Spread the glad tidings that it will not disappoint Miss Heyer's many admirers. Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded persons who do…
— Georgette Heyer
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The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail.
— Yukio Mishima
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The Adderall Diaries is phenomenal. With jittery finesse and a reformed tweaker's eye for detail, Stephen Elliott captures the terrifying, hilarious, heart-strangling reality of a…
— Jerry Stahl
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I find it strangely beautiful that the camera with its inherent clarity of object and detail can produce images that in spite of themselves offer…
— Joel Meyerowitz
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The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to…
— Ronald Fisher
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The footnote would seem to be the smallest detail in a work of history. Yet it carries a large burden of responsibility, testifying to the…
— Gertrude Himmelfarb
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In romance, we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship, we tend to do the…
— Mariella Frostrup
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To explore the unknown and the familiar, distant and near and to record in detail with the eyes of a child, any beauty, (of the…
— Dan Eldon
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I moved my business to Mobile Insurance because they simply understand my business better than any other insurance agency. My prior agent didn't really understand…
— Jeff Foote
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Don’t try to plan everything out to the very last detail. I’m a big believer in just getting it out there: create a minimal viable…
— Neil Patel
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I have been watching and drawing the surface of Mars. It is wonderfully full of detail. There is certainly no question about there being mountains…
— Edward E. Barnard
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The artist should fear to become the slave of detail. He should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it. What avails…
— Albert Pinkham Ryder
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Since I was doing all of it myself, I had to decide where I wanted to go with the songs, how to proceed with the…
— Utada Hikaru
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Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become…
— Denis Waitley
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Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Attention to detail can't be (and never is) added later. It's an entire development philosophy, methodology, and culture.
— Marco Arment
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The view after seventy is breathtaking. What is lacking is someone, anyone, of the older generation to whom you can turn when you want to…
— William Maxwell
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There are only four types of officer. First, there are the lazy, stupid ones. Leave them alone, they do no harm…Second, there are the hard-…
— Unknown Author
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To write a book such as Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn is a formidable undertaking. You must accumulate thousands of facts and spare no detail,…
— Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
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I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.
— Alma Guillermoprieto
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