Top 313 Details Quotes

I remember I was changing to one phone from another and going through my old contact details, and so I was having to delete duplicate numbers to make room, and up came the name of someone who died, and… it felt hard to delete the name.

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.

I am interested in constitutional history, political history, the history of foreign affairs, but I think you can get at those subjects through the details of daily life.

Long walks force a certain meditative awareness. You’re not moving so fast that you miss the world’s details passing by – in fact, you can stop to inspect something that might catch your eye.

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

There was a 3-foot-long model that was built for ‘New Hope,’ and then there was an 8-foot model that was built for ‘Empire Strikes Back.’ The 8-foot model and the 3-foot model are kind of different. A lot of the details are different between the two of them.

Capra is an old-time movie craftsman, the master of every trick in the bag, and in many ways he is more at home with the medium than any other Hollywood director. But all of his details give the impression of contrived effect.

We’re very private people and we tend to write about our relationships but keep the actual details close to our chests.

My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

I use a little brush only for really small details. Over the years, I’ve started to use a much larger brush.

I struggle with arrangements. I take forever doing them. It gets to a point where I’ve been playing around with things on loops for days. I always paint in broad strokes – very quickly, I’ll feel out the larger structure – but it’s putting the details in that I find the hardest part.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

It takes the same effort to think small than to think big. But to think big frees you from the insignificant details.

I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.

I am obsessed with planning travel! Not just traveling, which I love, but the whole planning process and all the details that go into it. I subscribe to all these travel blogs and airline forums and research hotels and activities and destinations for hours on end, and I volunteer to plan trips for everyone I know.

Recently though, our State Governments have discussed instigating a carbon trading scheme – the details are still to be decided – and that’s an encouraging sign.

Obviously, football is about the details, and everything can happen.

I am not up there by chance. I am there by choice. And I know the wire. And I know my limits. And I am a madman of details.

I love exploring the characters that I play, but the reason I sign on for something isn’t the details of the story but the universal message.

The American people want their presidents to articulate big ideas and leave the details to the eggheads.

I’ve always been a people-watcher, and as an actor, later, I just mined all those little details.

There are so many intricacies to our brain that won’t be understood unless we start to look at the system as a whole. All these different details don’t operate in isolation.

I feel like sometimes I get even more goofy onstage than I am offstage. I’m not trying to make the music less than what it is. Even if it’s hard for me and I have to think about a lot of details, it’s none of the audience’s business. I don’t want them to feel that I’m having a hard time.

It was my first day at work – and beginning my training on the job, I was given the job of writing cheques and entering their details. The branch was surrounded by hordes of people… soon, they had to close the gates to manage the crowds, and they started pushing in.

I believe God is in the details.

I worked every day there, so I knew all the details. But I needed only some proof. So the proof was photos.

I remember when I was first time in Serie A, we were down the bottom, no one was speaking about Cagliari. And we were safe, one day before the final match. With Parma, we went down, but we were positive right to the end. There are the little details, but you have to continue.

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.

I will confess that in general decisiveness worries me; it is often an excuse for being impatient with the details or insufficiently sensitive to other people’s concerns.

Details create the big picture.

The TV show ‘How It’s Made’ brings the intricate details of assembly lines to numerous North American living rooms. But if the series were to ever branch into exposing the secrets of music production, Colin Stetson’s ‘New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges’ would make for a mind-bending episode.

You make art, you make it from what you know, and that’s the best way to make art. You get lost in the details and make something that feels like it’s yours.

I believe that for the audience the best way to give the commentating is to avoid going into the deep, deep details.

A final of a grand slam is always a matter of details. Maybe a point here, a point there will make the difference. Maybe someone who is a bit more gutsy than the other player, someone who is having a better day than the others.

I find sharing intimate details with people that you don’t know an interesting concept. I like to keep some things to myself.

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

Some people are a natural administrator. They actually enjoy doing it. I find it a chore. I’m not a details person. I go for the big sweep.

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.

My Chinese side comes out in my dancing. There’s a certain in-the-moment sentimentality, an appreciation for the smallest details.

Whatever the details of union may be, there’s no doubt we need more policy coordination in Europe.

I believe in focusing on details.

I never make notes; just a few small details when I’m writing, but nothing much. The plot is never written down. I will tell the story to myself, but I won’t plan it. I’ll speak the narrative in my head for a while.

I honestly think the reason I’ve been able to improve year by year is work. Work with the team, work with my ability, focus on all the single details.

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

I find significance in all kinds of small details when I run; I’m hyper aware of my surroundings, the sensations in my body, and the thoughts running through my mind. Everything is clearer, heightened.

I take a lot of notes. Maybe it’s a product of me taking so many notes, but I have a pretty good memory for episodes, and some of the other actors will ask me questions about things, so I have this sense of responsibility that I have to be the one to remember some of the details.

Before we shot the pilot, I knew what ‘Dallas’ was, but I actually was too young to remember the details of the show. I didn’t have my hands on the DVDs, so I YouTubed everything I could of J.R.

At WSX the message was loud and clear consistently, even as a rookie signing a contract and kind of talking about things and getting into the nitty-gritty details. I felt like I was always given a lot of respect and in fact sometimes I thought they were almost tooting my own horn too loud I thought it was almost silly.

Becoming a grandmother brought me back to the things I forgot to love. Nature. Playing. Seeing animals. A new way of looking. A rejuvenation. A cycle of life – things come back to you. The details.

During a big tournament, it is the small details that make big differences.

Jurgen Klopp is more the emotional one and someone who can motivate really well. Pep Guardiola is more tactical, who always takes care of details and wants to show you how to do everything. Both are world-class managers and both have their own qualities. Both are amazing personalities.

I hope that people will be inspired by Madam Walker’s story. I hope that they will see her as a complex human being, and that they will want to dig more deeply, that they will want to know the details of her life.