Quotes on Detail

To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.

Author: Giorgio Armani

In the 19th century the anatomy of the eye was known in great detail and the sophisticated mechanisms it employs to deliver an accurate picture of the outside world astounded everyone who was familiar with them.

Author: Michael Behe

In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.

Author: L. Camp

You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion.

Author: Emily Carr

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

Author: Henri Cartier-Bresson

We are going to have a huge Oscar issue, you are going to see everything in such beautiful detail.

Author: Steven Cojocaru

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.

Author: Heather Donahue

The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, down to the tiniest degree of detail that can exist in the world.

Author: K. Drexler

There are a lot of times that if a detail in a scene or a beat, feels unnatural, they'll allow me to explore another direction to go until we're all comfortable with what we are doing.

Author: George Eads

The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.

Author: Edward Gibbon

I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.

Author: Alma Guillermoprieto

My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail.

Author: Laurell Hamilton

Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.

Author: Helen Hayes

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 chords, if the sound was alright, and all that detail on my own.

Author: Utada Hikaru

Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.

Author: Louis Kronenberger

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 out about it.

Author: Joshua Lederberg

All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.

Author: Gustav Mahler

Disney is thrilling and informative and important and beautiful and suspect. Butts was a detail I observed later and definitely ties in. I suppose I was programmed, yeah.

Author: Mark Morris

Caress the detail, the divine detail.

Author: Vladimir Nabokov

The reports of the eclipse parties not only described the scientific observations in great detail, but also the travels and experiences, and were sometimes marked by a piquancy not common in official documents.

Author: Simon Newcomb

Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.

Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

Author: Adam Smith

I'm not trying to be coy here; we're just not prepared to give a lot of detail about our thinking, but we will be making some announcements in the coming months.

Author: Jim Walton

My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.

Author: Adam Weishaupt

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

Author: Alfred Whitehead

With Fever, the film was so made for the screen, and there's so much surround sound that was done for the film - enormous detail paid to that. I wasn't thinking video, because I didn't know how it was going to turn out.

Author: Alex Winter

Do great things as if tiny details matter.

Author: Olivia Matthews

The most beautiful things in life are often found in the details.

Author: Sofia Reynolds

It is in the small details that the grandest visions are forged.

Author: Maya Cohen