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At the root of creativity is an impulse to understand, to make sense of random and often unrelated details. For me, photography provides an intersection…
— Paul Caponigro
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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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Woman in the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacities. She has the right to participate in the minutest details in the activities of…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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It's the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class.
— J. Willard Marriott
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Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable but positive hindrances to our progress. Our life…
— Henry David Thoreau
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How few people will realize how much detail had to be gone into before Bakelite was a commercial success.
— Leo Baekeland
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The insistence on complete certainty about the full details of global warming-the most serious threat we have ever faced-is actually an effort to avoid facing…
— Al Gore
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All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as a detail have…
— John Berger
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95 percent of economics is common sense made complicated, and even for the remaining 5 percent, the essential reasoning, if not all the technical details,…
— Ha-Joon Chang
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It is this third consequence that has been elaborated in greatest detail and has formed one of the most significant pillars of historical capitalism, institutional…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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Haemoglobin is a very large molecule by ordinary standards, containing about ten thousand atoms, but the chances are that your haemoglobin and mine are identical,…
— Francis Crick
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No matter what. Wherever your mind wanders, it seems to turn up at the same Field of Dreams. It's the vision you wake up with…
— James C. Collins
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The more clear and definite you make your picture then,and the more you dwell upon it, bringing out all its delightful details, the stronger your…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality. At times monstrous images are created,…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The variety of more minute interests, which will necessarily fall under the superintendence of the local administrations . . . cannot be particularized without involving…
— Alexander Hamilton
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There is nothing absurd or impracticable in the idea of a league or alliance between independent nations for certain defined purposes precisely stated in a…
— Alexander Hamilton
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I may be flying a complicated airplane, rushing through space, but in this cabin I'm surrounded by simplicity and thoughts set free of time. How…
— Charles Lindbergh
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I think the more the listener can contribute to the song, the better; the more they become part of the song, and they fill in…
— John Prine
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When, after having examined in detail the organization of the Supreme Court, one comes to consider in sum the prerogatives that have been given it,…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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