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• Nothing is more consonant with Nature than that she puts into operation in the smallest detail that which she intends as a whole.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Science, Evolution

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• Exactness in little things is a wonderful source of cheerfulness.

  Frederick William Faber

  Littles, Little Things, Wonderful

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• One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.

  Pablo Picasso

  Pain, Thinking, Opposites

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• The artist's interest cannot be restricted to a single field; he must seek the highest perception of everything, of the whole and its details.

  Asger Jorn

  Artist, Perception, Fields

  Asger Jorn, Per Hovdenakk, Stine Høholt, Arken museum for moderne kunst (Ishøj, Denmark), Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands) (2002). “Asger Jorn”

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• There's such an advantage to being involved in the day-to-day details of each other's lives. It's a marvelous fabric to exist in.

  Tom Hanks

  Fabric, Advantage, Day To Day

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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 no turning back.

  Gloria Steinem

  May, Paganism, Goddess

  Gloria Steinem (1995). “Moving Beyond Words: Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking Boundaries of Gender”, p.270, Simon and Schuster

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

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• There are some things about myself I can’t explain to anyone. There are some things I don’t understand at all. I can’t tell what I think about things or what I’m after. I don’t know what my strengths are or what I’m supposed to do about them. But if I start thinking about these things in too much detail the whole thing gets scary. And if I get scared I can only think about myself. I become really self-centered, and without meaning to, I hurt people. So I’m not such a wonderful human being.

  Haruki Murakami

  Hurt, Thinking, Self

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• The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.

  Edward Gibbon

  Events, Littles, Pathetic

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• There's nothing wrong with setting goals, but it doesn't mean a thing if you don't pay attention to the day-to-day details.

  Don Shula

  Mean, Goal, Attention

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• Fill your pages with details. Work hard to get the right word.

  Robert Littell

  Hard Work, Pages, Right Words

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• If you have a character stand up and put on her shoes and open the door, in order to do that, you're imagining her shoes and her clothes and her house and her door. The character becomes more real. But once you've done that, you can probably just get it all across with a couple of details.

  Alice Mattison

  Couple, Real, Character

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Contingency is rich and fascinating; it embodies an exquisite tension between the power of individuals to modify history and the intelligible limits set by laws of nature. The details of individual and species's lives are not mere frills, without power to shape the large-scale course of events, but particulars that can alter entire futures, profoundly and forever.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Law, Forever, Shapes

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History”, p.77, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Emotions are the sums created by details, whether those details are true or not.

  Terry Goodkind

  Emotion

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Confessor”, p.117, Head of Zeus

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• For me, good description usually consists of a few well-chosen details that will stand for everything else.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Description, Wells

  Stephen King (2001). “On writing: a memoir of the craft”

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• Only the dying take pleasure in the details of what the healthy fail to notice.

  Craig Stone

  Healthy, Dying, Failing

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• It's almost comical that astronauts are stereotyped as daredevils and cowboys. As a rule, we're highly methodical and detail-oriented. Our passion isn't for thrills but for the grindstone, and pressing our noses to it.

  Chris Hadfield

  Work, Passion, Cowboy

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.45, Pan Macmillan

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• I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details.

  Victoria Beckham

  Hands, Attention, Pay

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• Slip into the gap, have the desire, detach from the outcome, and let the universe take care of the details.

  Deepak Chopra

  Desire, Care, Outcomes

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• Every war involves a greater or less relapse into barbarism. War, indeed, in its details, is the essence of inhumanity. It dehumanizes. It may save the state, but it destroys the citizen.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  War, Essence, Citizens

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• A sure sign of an amateur is too much detail to compensate for too little life.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Littles, Too Much

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• I do not keep up with the details of particle physics.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Physics, Particle Physics, Particles

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• Because the beauty of the human body is that it hasn't a single muscle which doesn't serve its purpose; that there's not a line wasted; that every detail of it fits one idea, the idea of a man and the life of a man.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Ostriches, Ideas

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.158, Penguin

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• They're both [Ethan Hawke and John Travolta] so good. It's hard to explain. But they're consummate professionals and you see the little choices they make - you see it in their eye. You see these little details they do where you go, "That's why they're them."

  Ti West

  Eye, Choices, Littles

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• To understand matters rightly we should understand their details; and as that knowledge is almost infinite, our knowledge is always superficial and imperfect.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Knowledge, Matter, Imperfect

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