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It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

When a problem threatens to engulf you, there's nothing like irrelevant detail to keep your head abo...

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When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog foll...

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Jonathan Safran FoerExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close

I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, ...

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When it comes to politics today, the devils' not in the details; the devil's in the big picture, mor...

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I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very larg...

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

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Nassim Nicholas TalebThe Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Dinner was wonderful. There was a joint of beef, with roast potatoes, golden-crisp on the outside an...

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I have always thought that the place where you sleep or the place you share with your partner should...

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I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of t...

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The truth of the story lies in the details.

Do you know why books such as this are so important? They have quality. And what does the word quali...

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Everything made by human hands looks terrible under magnification--crude, rough, and asymmetrical. B...

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This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to...

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Reality so often fails when it comes to small, satisfying details, she thought.

Making a whole is very important. Most people paint things and forget the whole.

It's a complex song, and it's fascinating to watch the creative process as they went back and forth ...

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Not since the original Mac had a clarity of product vision so propelled a company into the future. "...

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Beware the person who won't be bothered with details.

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

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

In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals ...

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It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matt...

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The affair seems absurdly trifling, and yet I dare call nothing trivial when I reflect that some of ...

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Arthur Conan DoyleThe Adventure of the Six Napoleons/The Adventure of the Crooked Man

I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession,...

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To help you fill in the details of the world you are creating, imagine that your characters inhabit ...

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The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The shortcut to closing a...

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I'm not such a fan of imagination. If you're alive to details, they oftentimes suggest a richer or d...

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The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had ho...

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If and when all the laws governing physical phenomena are finally discovered, and all the empirical ...

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Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, b...

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God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's n...

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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday...

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He decided not to ask for details. Better to avoid exposing his ignorance even further.

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