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It is in the small details that the grandest visions are forged.
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Maya Cohen
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The most beautiful things in life are often found in the details.
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Sofia Reynolds
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Do great things as if tiny details matter.
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Olivia Matthews
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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.
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Alex Winter
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Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.
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Amy Winehouse
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We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
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Alfred Whitehead
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We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives.
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Robert Welch
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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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Adam Weishaupt
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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.
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Jim Walton
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I won't go into detail but this animated one, the story line is very cool and the kids seem to love it.
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Blair Underwood
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The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.
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Charles Swindoll
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Success in any endeavor requires single-minded attention to detail and total concentration.
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Willie Sutton
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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.
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Adam Smith
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I'm blown away by the graphical detail of today's games. I can't imagine that it's going to get any better, but it's just going to continually progress and soon we'll be living in that world.
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Christian Slater
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The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail.
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David Selznick
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If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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At the present moment, with little or no detail to hand, it is difficult for me to make any comment, beyond the expression of horror at the shameless haste with which the government appears to be pressing for our liquidation.
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Ethel Rosenberg
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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.
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Francois Rochefoucauld
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On the other track I got to talk with Jon Poll, my editor, and we go into more detail about the decisions we made in both the production and the post-production. So I hope the combination becomes something worth collecting.
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Jay Roach
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When I see myself in the videogame it's amazing how realistic I look. This is the most authentic and realistic soccer game I have ever seen. It is like I'm looking in a mirror. The attention to detail is incredible.
Author:
Claudio Reyna
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Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.
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Marcus Pollio
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One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
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Pablo Picasso
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.
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Alan Perlis
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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 have said in any detail so let me not comment on that too much.
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Roger Penrose
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If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail.
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Jean-Marie Pen
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Watch every detail that affects the accuracy of your work.
Author:
Arthur Nielsen
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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.
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Simon Newcomb
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Caress the detail, the divine detail.
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Vladimir Nabokov
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It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.
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Vladimir Nabokov
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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.
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Mark Morris
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I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!
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Pat Morita
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Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all.
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James Mill
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I think in any writing you're paying attention to detail.
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Peter Matthiessen
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All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.
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Gustav Mahler
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I do like to work on a Marvel method, so if I've got the opportunity, and the writer is happy to do it, I like to have a writer detail what happens on a page, but not saying what happens in every scene.
Author:
David Lloyd
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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 out about it.
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Joshua Lederberg
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All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
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T. Lawrence
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Without going into too much detail, the end of my major action scene, after the climax of the scene, there was one little change that I suggested regarding the way things should turn out. It was in the detail of the tears of blood.
Author:
Chiaki Kuriyama
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Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.
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Louis Kronenberger
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The reason Apple is really good, I think, and the reason their stores succeeded, is not just 'cause we know the big idea, but we have a real passion for the littlest detail. It's legendary in our products.
Author:
Ron Johnson
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We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.
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Pamela Johnson
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Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination.
Author:
Derek Jacobi
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In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
Author:
Lou Holtz
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People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
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Oliver Holmes, Jr.
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Among other things they picked out a detail that Charles had been offered the Governorship of Hong Kong in its dying days by Thatcher in return for shutting up about the inner cities. He quite rightly in my view led the paper on this story.
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Anthony Holden
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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 chords, if the sound was alright, and all that detail on my own.
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Utada Hikaru
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I suppose that I was a kind of consultant for taste. Is it good taste? Or bad taste? I had an attention to detail, to what would tell best the story. Because many people get excited about the work and drift off from the story.
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John Hench
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Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.
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Helen Hayes
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You can't imagine how much detail we know about brains. There were 28,000 people who went to the neuroscience conference this year, and every one of them is doing research in brains. A lot of data. But there's no theory. There's a little, wimpy box on top there.
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Jeff Hawkins
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Well we took it apart scene by scene. We examined every sentence, every full stop, every comma. He has a most wonderful eye for detail, Roman, and you know, he's a very good artist.
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Ronald Harwood
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My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail.
Author:
Laurell Hamilton
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We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy.
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David Hackworth
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The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11 only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger.
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Jurgen Habermas
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I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.
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Alma Guillermoprieto
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In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.
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Stanislav Grof
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The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.
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Edward Gibbon
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Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
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Theophile Gautier
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The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.
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Stephen Gardiner
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Male and female gossip also sounds different, as women use more animated tones, more detail and more feedback.
Author:
Kate Fox
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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 other things slip away.
Author:
Harrison Ford
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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 present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles.
Author:
Ronald Fisher
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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 my presentation of historical facts was an exact one.
Author:
Lion Feuchtwanger
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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
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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.
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K. Drexler
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With NOAH, you can create some stunning, yet original soundscapes. Therefore, as a performance tool, it really comes into its own because you can make one single performance which has a lot of detail.
Author:
Geoff Downes
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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.
Author:
Heather Donahue
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One of the problems with sex education... is that it also strips kids - especially girls - of their modesty to have every detail of anatomy, physiology and condom usage made explicit.
Author:
James Dobson
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The hesitancy is in the detail, not the principal. There has been no resistance to the principal of women playing in the Open if they are qualified for it. We are not dragging our feet. It's just that we never had cause to think about it before.
Author:
Peter Dawson
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The day Tarzan opened in London, I sat in a hotel room and discussed the project in detail.
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Phil Collins
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We are going to have a huge Oscar issue, you are going to see everything in such beautiful detail.
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Steven Cojocaru
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And for every project, because it takes years, you can see the early drawings and collages as just a simple, vague idea, and through the years and through the negotiations of getting the permit, you see that every detail is now clarified.
Author:
Christo
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What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
Author:
Victor Cherbuliez
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In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.
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Henri Cartier-Bresson
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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
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Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
Author:
Dale Carnegie
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The rest is a mere matter of detail, to be settled with judgment, discretion, and caution.
Author:
John Carlisle
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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
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I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece.
Author:
Gavin Bryars
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Silence is not merely the absence of sound, but the resonance of thoughts cascading into desk-ridges of time, painting memory with a fluid stare.
Author:
Alyssa Mordwingen
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
Author:
Malcolm Bradbury
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People have criticised me because my security detail is larger than the president's. But you must ask yourself: are there more people who want to kill me than who want to kill the president? I can assure you there are.
Author:
Marion Berry
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Fear is a great motivator. Look at what 9-11 has accomplished - My god. It's slammed the economy, It's - I can't even begin to detail all it's actually done, other than bring down the buildings and hit the Pentagon. It's stunned the entire nation.
Author:
Art Bell
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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
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I'm proud of Lord of the Rings. I think it's a once in a lifetime role, and a once in a lifetime film. It was made with so much care and passion and meticulous detail and everybody was so behind it.
Author:
Sean Bean
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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 and large greatly elevated plateaus.
Author:
Edward Barnard
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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
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Honore Balzac
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I never examined what I did in any great detail because I thought it would spoil things. I never read the scripts at all carefully, and never wanted to know what was going on, because I felt that being a benevolent alien that's the way it should be.
Author:
Tom Baker
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We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.
Author:
Fredrik Bajer
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Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems.
Author:
Fredrik Bajer
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To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.
Author:
Giorgio Armani
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The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.
Author:
Tadao Ando
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I had a really good time with Martha Stewart, who also is somebody I really admire a lot. I've learned a lot from her and I think all of America has, about attention to detail and using fresh ingredients and making things beautiful and special.
Author:
Ted Allen
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I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.
Author:
Thomas Aldrich
