Details Quotes

We're all happier when we know less, because the details are frightening and haven't really improved much. The more you pay attention, the more horrifying the world is.

Paolo Bacigalupi

WorldDetailsAttentionYouKnow

I was worried that one day, 40 years from now, I would look back and wouldn't be able to remember the details of my life, so I've written them all down.

Alicia Keys

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'The End of America' details the 10 steps that would-be dictators always take in seeking to close an open society; it argued that the Bush administration had been advancing each one.

Naomi Wolf

SocietyEndDetailsAmericaOpen

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

Susan Sontag

LifeDetailsForeverSignificant

Babies choose to lackadaisically notice the quirkiest of details - unlike us grown ups, who choose instead to focus on what we believe is most essential to us. As a result, babies have a greater expanded consciousness than us grown-ups!

Karen Salmansohn

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Sweating the small stuff is important in boxing and life. On a movie, we have production assistants who're 18 and 19 years old. If someone asks you for a cup of coffee, and you bring them a cup of coffee that's cold, I make a big deal of that. I make a really, really big deal of that. You have to pay attention to details.

Peter Berg

LifeCoffeeSmallColdDetailsYou

I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else.

Indra Nooyi

OrganizationDriveDetailsImportant

There are a lot of details you have to work out when you're talking about fighters competing twice in one night.

Scott Coker

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I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.

Halsey

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While Democrats fussed with the details of health care reforms, conservatives spent months telling the nation that the real issue is freedom, that what's on the line is American liberty itself.

Thomas Frank

FreedomHealthCareDetailsAmerican

I nitpick details.

Adam Lambert

Details

A woman can see a woman so clearly - faluts, excellences, details - all are so clear to her.

Richard Jefferies

WomanDetailsSeeClearlyHerClear

I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.

Barbra Streisand

GoodArtThinkDetailsArtistNames

Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter.

Marissa Mayer

LovePeopleDetailsMatterSomething

The BBC is very good at period drama - world-famous for getting the details right.

Lynne Reid Banks

GoodDetailsDramaRightVeryBBC

Game management is accomplished by staying constantly alert and then reading and reacting to potential problem situations before they materialize. It all boils down to paying attention to details.

Jim Evans

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Whenever we find, in two forms of life that are unrelated to each other, a similarity of form or of behaviour patterns which relates to more than a few minor details, we assume it to be caused by parallel adaptation to the same life-preserving function.

Konrad Lorenz

LifeDetailsFindMoreTwoSame

I think it's the small things, the smaller episodes and details that I linger on and try to draw meaning from, just personally.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Small ThingsSmallThinkDetailsTry

While claiming advocacy, what hoaxers really exhibit is self-interest. Often, this is because there is only the self to support their false claims; any revelations merely provide further opportunities for details and forgery.

Kevin Young

SupportOpportunitiesSelfDetails

The downside to making movies at a gallop like we did with 'Wish You Were Here' is that we're shooting four or five scenes in a day, and it's very exhilarating, but you worry at the end of the day that you missed some details because you were moving too quick, and you just gotta trust and be ready straightaway.

Joel Edgerton

TrustDayMovingEndDetailsWorry

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.

James McBride

StoryDetailsAlwaysTellJournalist

As an astronomer, I get to ignore the details of the things that we don't understand. There's a lot of work that we can do on scales that we do understand, and there is actually a finite size that I can associate with a super massive black hole.

Andrea M. Ghez

WorkBlackDetailsIgnoreI CanGet

Basically, all anyone has to do is ask me for fun details or tell me to be creative, and my mind turns to mud. I am instantly the most boring person you've ever met.

Melissa Bank

CreativeI AmFunMindMeDetails

I spend a great deal of time on research, on finding all the available accounts of a scene or incident, finding out all the background details and the biographies of the people involved there, and I try to run up all the accounts side by side to see where the contradictions are, and to look where things have gone missing.

Hilary Mantel

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