Quotes: Detail

We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives.

You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion.

People have criticised me because my security detail is larger than the president’s. But you must ask yourself: are there more people who want to kill me than who want to kill the president? I can assure you there are.

The rest is a mere matter of detail, to be settled with judgment, discretion, and caution.

A man’s accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.

What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one’s ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.

If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that’s what one calls a detail.

There are a lot of times that if a detail in a scene or a beat, feels unnatural, they’ll allow me to explore another direction to go until we’re all comfortable with what we are doing.

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

The reports of the eclipse parties not only described the scientific observations in great detail, but also the travels and experiences, and were sometimes marked by a piquancy not common in official documents.