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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
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
In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us. — Virginia Woolf
Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together - and they call… — Agatha Christie
In fact, whenever energy is transmitted from one body to another in time, there must be a medium or substance in which the energy exists… — James Clerk Maxwell
For the 99 percent of the time we've been on Earth, we were hunter and gatherers, our lives dependent on knowing the fine, small details… — Janine Benyus
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
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
Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail. — Malcolm Bradbury
Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all. — James Mill
Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about. — Louis Kronenberger
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
In a major matter no details are small. — Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. — Heraclitus
The devil is in the details, and everything we do in the military is a detail. — Hyman Rickover
What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules &… — Mark Twain
So I made an outline. Well, you know, days are going by, and I am not writing anything because this thing is laid out in… — Steve Tesich
It's all a terrible tragedy. And yet, in it's details, it's great fun. And - apart from the tragedy - I've never felt happier or… — Rupert Brooke
In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. For… — Anton Chekhov
Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story… — V. S. Pritchett
Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured nor… — Lord Acton
I often need physical gesture to balance dialogue. If I write in public, every time I need to know what a character is doing with… — Chuck Palahniuk
Details are the Life of Prose. — Jack Kerouac
I start with no preconceived idea - discovery excites me to focus - then rediscovery through the lens - final form of presentation seen on… — Edward Weston
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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