Top Detail Quotes

There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one's existence a minor work of art.

When we stop noticing small things, we are no longer truly alive.

Detail Definition

(n.) A minute portion; one of the small parts; a particular; an item; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the details of a scheme or transaction.

(n.) A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars.

(n.) The selection for a particular service of a person or a body of men; hence, the person or the body of men so selected.

(n.) To relate in particulars; to particularize; to report minutely and distinctly; to enumerate; to specify; as, he detailed all the facts in due order.

(n.) To tell off or appoint for a particular service, as an officer, a troop, or a squadron.

The key for any speaker is to establish his own point of view for the audience, so they can see the game through his eyes.

The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.

The notion of the infinite variety of detail and the multiplicity of forms is a pleasing one; in complexity are the fringes of beauty, and in variety are generosity and exuberance.

The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail.

In romance, we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship, we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.

Look, the thing that's going to make Disneyland unique and different,' he insisted, 'is the detail. If we loose the detail, we loose it all.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities.

He saw himself in her eyes, suspended in two shining drops of bright water, himself dark and tiny, in fine detail, the lines about his mouth, everything there, as if her eyes were two miraculous bits...

After all, I was dressed in linen and so retained a certain capacity for nonchalance.

We lie to ourselves about the smallest details, and we lie to ourselves about our largest life choices.

The devil was always in the detail. And here the detail was certainly devilish.

There is a part of everything which is unexplored,because we are accustomed to using our eyes only in association with the memory of what people before us have thought of the thing we are looking at....

Although a little noisy at first, in a bizarre twist of fate, electronic music became popular in France in the 1890’s before fizzling out in favor of Swing music – which somehow made an early appearan...

Just as little as a reader today reads all of the individual words (let alone syllables) on a page—rather he picks about five words at random out of twenty and "guesses" at the meaning that probably b...

One of the seats of emotion and memory in the brain is the amygdala, he explained. When something threatens your life, this area seems to kick into overdrive, recording every last detail of the experi...

…this story offers far more than a simple moral of how the meek can trump the mighty.