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What the banking system needs is creditors who monitor risk and cut their exposure when that risk is too high. Unlike regulators, creditors and counterparties know the details of a deal and have their own money on the line.

Tyler Cowen

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I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.

Fernando Botero

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It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be.

Rick Moody

GreatMemoryPeopleDetailsDoing

Details are the only thing that separates one movie from another.

Campbell Scott

DetailsOnlyThe Only ThingMovie

'Gandhi' was a well-made film but surely not my best. It had flaws, which I understand two-and-a-half decades after I directed it. I will never call it a propaganda film for the Indian Congress, but it could have been made better had I concentrated on certain minute details.

Richard Attenborough

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One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole.

Barbara Hepworth

DetailsExecutionStructureMaster

I do not keep up with the details of particle physics.

Murray Gell-Mann

DetailsPhysicsUpKeepParticle

If you just focus on the smallest details, you never get the big picture right.

Leroy Hood

FocusDetailsPictureYouNeverBig

A true leader must strive towards a grand vision of human progress, but remember that the minor details of her everyday life really matter to those who look up to her as a role model.

Joe Lonsdale

LifeLeaderVisionProgressDetails

It's hard to actually take details from your personal life and apply them a scene because, as much as you can identify with a feeling, you just get muddled. As soon as you start bringing your own stuff in, it's like, 'No, that's not right.' You're playing a different person. You can relate, but you have to leave that stuff at the door.

Kristen Stewart

LifeDoorStartDetailsYouPerson

When I am experiencing a complex story or novel, the broader planes, and also details, tend to fall away.

Jhumpa Lahiri

I AmStoryDetailsFallComplexAm

For each detail I include, I throw dozens away. So I guess the first trick is to pick the right details, the most revealing details. Then I think one must simply write quick, clean, bright prose. For me, this means rewriting and rewriting: almost never adding, almost always cutting.

Kevin Crossley-Holland

MeDetailThinkDetailsBright

Dropbox sweats the user experience details as commendably as it masters the considerable engineering challenges required to reliably sync files everywhere a user may need them.

Jeffrey Zeldman

ExperienceChallengesDetailsNeed

Now, it's my belief that Python is a lot easier than to teach to students programming and teach them C or C++ or Java at the same time because all the details of the languages are so much harder. Other scripting languages really don't work very well there either.

Guido van Rossum

WorkTimeDetailsBeliefProgramming

The less you know about the person, the more you fill in the rosiest details.

Max Joseph

DetailsYouPersonKnowMoreFill

Everything is up to the players and not the tactics. They're just small details that can show you the way to play.

Henrikh Mkhitaryan

SmallDetailsYouPlayWayUp

If you're still wondering about details - how am I going to get these two to meet, or whatever - when you're writing, you can't pay proper attention to the sentences themselves.

John Irving

WritingDetailsAttentionYouMeet

Being a rock and roll band is about spending time on the details so that you can hone your own identity.

Grace Potter

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I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away the creative artistic approach that the designers had taken.

Andy Hertzfeld

GreatCreativeMeDetailsApple

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Ernest Hemingway

LifeManDetailsWaySameLived

Even the details of a rifle, which are nothing but mechanical, if they are made carefully, with attention, become beautiful, satisfying.

Michael Cimino

BeautifulDetailsAttentionBecome

No matter what kind of writing you do, it's always the details that make the story.

Elizabeth Berg

WritingStoryDetailsYouKindMake

I spent a lot of time listening to people. But it's also true that I liked details and listening to people when I was a bartender and when I was a waitress and probably when I was a babysitter as well. I suspect that's part of what drew me to psychotherapy rather than the other way around.

Amy Bloom

TimePeopleMeListeningDetails

So much about Trump is... mysterious and slippery. Everything in his business record, you had to ask him for the details. He made himself the only source. He would either not tell you, or he was often an unreliable narrator about his own life.

David Fahrenthold

LifeBusinessDetailsYouMysterious

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