Details Quotes

Japan!everything in details perfection.

~ Baris Gencel

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

~ Michelangelo Buonarroti

Like most little girls, I found the lure of grown-up accessories astonishing - lipstick, perfume, hats and gloves. When I write female characters in my historical novels, getting these details right is vital.

~ Sara Sheridan

Not since the original Mac had a clarity of product vision so propelled a company into the future. If anybody was ever wondering why Apple is on the earth, I would hold up this as a good example

~ Walter Isaacson

It's a complex song, and it's fascinating to watch the creative process as they went back and forth and finally created it over a few months. Lennon was always my favorite Beatle. [ He laughs as Lennon stops during the first take and makes the band go back and revise a chord.] Did you hear that little detour they took? It didn't work, so they went back and started from where they were. It's so raw in this version. It actually makes the sound like mere mortals. You could actually imagine other people doing this, up to this version. Maybe not writing and conceiving it, but certainly playing it. Yet they just didn't stop. They were such perfectionists they kept it going This made a big impression on me when I was in my thirties. You could just tell how much they worked at this. They did a bundle of work between each of these recording. They kept sending it back to make it closer to perfect.[ As he listens to the third take, he points out how instrumentation has gotten more complex.] The way we build stuff at Apple is often this way. Even the number of models we'd make of a new notebook or iPod. We would start off with a version and then begin refining and refining, doing detailed models of the design, or the buttons, or how a function operates. It's a lot of work, but in the end it just gets better, and soon it's like, Wow, how did they do that?!? Where are the screws?

~ Walter Isaacson

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

You must remember, Madame Harris, elegance is in the details.

~ Lynn Sheene

Only Getting the A and Z with out the B through Y, leaves you SOL.

~ Loren Weisman

Tiny details imperceptible to us decide everything!

~ W.g. Sebald

A vast field opened like a blossoming tulip, flowers blooming in the rippling airs of spring. High and frothy trees hugged air and sun as they gallantly cast a shade over the earth. On the horizon a florid vessel of mountains trailed to the never-ending, blue as memories distant, poised as statues embroidered into time’s eternal drift.

~ Pablo Andrés Wunderlich Padilla

Listen! This is where it began but I keep getting muddled... The fact of the matter is that I now want to recall everything, every trifle, every little detail. I still want to collect my thoughts and - I can't, and now there are these little details, these little details...

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Everything is complicated if no one explains it to you.

~ Fredrik Backman

Knowing the right detail gets you a great return. Ignore them and you just crash & burn.

~ Robert Rolih

I'm not sure why, but when a person expects something to last forever, they don't notice the little things. It's only when the clock is ticking all those little things add up and become bigger.

~ Shannon Wiersbitzky

Is it possible that the national psychology emphasizing bigness has caused us to think only in those terms – to the detriment of the small things that have to be done if we are to win the war?

~ Molly Guptill Manning

The affair seems absurdly trifling, and yet I dare call nothing trivial when I reflect that some of my most classic cases have had the least promising commencement. You will remember, Watson, how the dreadful business of the Abernetty family was first brought to my notice by the depth which the parsley had sunk into the butter upon a hot day.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

Despite my affection for subtext and plot and prose at its best... life, it turns out, is nothing more than the finer details.

~ Bailey Vincent

Details create the big picture.

~ Sanford I. Weill

If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

~ Jeff Bezos

Jerry Seinfeld is amazing in many ways, not the least of them his ability to find humor, and convincing us to find it, too, in the million-and-two details about modern life that under different circumstances might send us into paroxysms of rage.

~ Tom Shales

I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of the terms of the Convention, but I did know of that prohibition.

~ Otto Hahn

Gradually I became aware of details: a company of French soldiers was marching through the streets of the town. They broke formation, and went in single file along the communication trench leading to the front line. Another group followed them.

~ Ernst Toller

This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.

~ Steve Jobs

I realized that I loved using computers to create something, but being an architect just wasn't going to keep me interested. The idea of a life spent obsessing over bathroom details for an Upper East Side penthouse was pretty depressing.

~ Joseph Kosinski

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

~ William Morris

Our culture already has a number of well known stories about artificial life and non-human intelligence. In 'Exegesis,' I've tried to not only tell a new and engaging story but also to comment on those well known stories through the details of my novel.

~ Astro Teller

The president has a right to discuss his national security policies with the public. But that should be done in the light of day without endangering our sources or methods. The public has no need to know details about intelligence assets or special operations units. Such disclosures endanger those who protect us.

~ Peter T. King

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.

~ Eminem

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

~ Arthur Erickson

Puppet camp truly redefined my preconceptions of puppetry... I'll never forget learning that before a puppet can speak... he has to inhale. It's those details that make the characters truly come to life.

~ Rob Mcclure

In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.

~ Alfred Russel Wallace

God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.

~ Gloria Steinem

I want to know all Gods thoughts all the rest are just details.

~ Albert Einstein

Modern scientific knowledge appeared piecemeal. Historians wrote about human history; physicists tackled the material world; and biologists studied the world of living organisms. But there were few links between these disciplines, as researchers focused on getting the details right.

~ David Christian

I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.

~ Mikhail Bakunin

All of the details that most of us memorize in medical school - you don't have to learn those things. They're going to be in your computer.

~ Leroy Hood

What you need to learn how to do is analyze situations and do differential diagnoses and understand the principle and the concepts rather than learn all the details, and medical school doesn't begin to do that.

~ Leroy Hood

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

The details are not the details. They make the design.

~ Charles Eames

I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.

~ John Malkovich