Details Quotes - Page 32

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

  Jeff Bezos

  Entrepreneur, Failing, Ifs

  "What Would Jeff and Steve Say?" by Terence Roche, gonzobanker.com. March 17, 2014.

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• The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments, surprises, and crises is a life full of landmarks. The empty life has even its few details blurred, and cannot be remembered with certainty.

  Eric Hoffer

  Disappointment, Empty Life, Achievement

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Young players expose themselves to grave risks when they blindly imitate the innovations of masters without themselves first checking all the details and consequences of these innovations.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Player, Risk, Innovation

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• No detail of your life is too insignificant for your heavenly Father's attention.

  Jerry Bridges

  Christian, Father, Attention

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Trusting God: Even When Life Hurts”, p.24, Tyndale House

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• In mixed company women practise a kind of visual shorthand that they later decode in detail in other women's company.

  Malcolm De Chazal

  Women, Kind, Company

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• Men have the grand vision, and they pass it on to somebody else to put into practice. Women follow the details more, they want to know that it is being put into practice.

  Eugenia Charles

  Encouraging, Men, Practice

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• Politicians love change, but of details only.

  Mason Cooley

  Change, Politician

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• When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has”: “I have had, you see, to resort more and more to very small, almost invisible pleasures, little extras. You've no idea how great one becomes with these little details, it's incredible how one grows.

  Witold Gombrowicz

  Ideas, Want, Littles

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• Separation anxiety is assuaged by constant connection. Young people announce every detail of their lives on services like Twitter not to show off, but to avoid the closed door at bedtime, the empty room, the screaming vacuum of an isolated mind.

  Jaron Lanier

  Doors, Empty Rooms, People

  Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not a Gadget”, p.180, Vintage

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• The surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by being specific, definitive, and concrete. The greatest writers - Homer, Dante, Shakespeare - are effective largely because they deal in particulars and report the details that matter. Their words call up pictures.

  William Strunk, Jr.

  Writing, Attention, Matter

  "The Elements of Style". Book by William Strunk Jr. Chapter II: "Elementary Principles of Composition", 1918.

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• Man is a magnet, and every line and dot and detail of his experiences come by his own attraction.

  Elizabeth Towne

  Men, Lines, Dots

  Elizabeth Towne (2007). “Life Power and How to Use It”, p.69, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• M. J. Putney's writing has always been magical; now that she has turned her hand to the telling of a fantasy tale, it sparkles on the page. Stolen Magic has to be one of the most delightful reads of the year, a witty, finely crafted tale that enchants from beginning to end. As always, Putney's intelligent wordsmithery, scholarship, eye for detail, and ability to bring to life irresistible characters add up to enjoyment on every page. Fast-moving and fun!

  Elizabeth Haydon

  Witty, Fun, Moving

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• I write because the lives of all of us are stories. If enough of those stories are told, then perhaps we will begin to see that our lives are the same story. The differences are merely in the details.

  Julius Lester

  Writing, Differences, Stories

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• The EU Kids Online project is the most theoretically informed and methodologically sophisticated study we have on the issue of risks in the new electronic environment. This book is rich in details and insights that greatly advance our understanding.

  David Finkelhor

  Book, Kids, Issues

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• Socrates claimed famously that one never loses by doing the right thing. Stephen Post and his contributors claim, a little less boldly, that at least the generous will, probably, stay healthy—and, improving on Socrates, they support this claim with careful empirical science, impressive for its comprehensive detail. Here ethics and religion join science and enjoin us to be more caring and healthy. A seminal work, with an urgent message.

  Holmes Rolston III

  Caring, Support, Healthy

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• In its jolly mission to expose the dark underbelly of the children’s book world, Wild Things! turns up stories I’ve been hearing noised about for ages, but with a lot more detail and authenticity. The stories may not be quite as sordid as my own imagination had conjured up—although a few of them are—because there’s no denying that this field is full of mostly nice people!—but it’s all fun and a great read for anyone interested in both children’s books and the collection of people who make them.

  Paul O. Zelinsky

  Children, Fun, Nice

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• Transparency and detail are everything in science.

  Ben Goldacre

  Transparency

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• On the other track I got to talk with Jon Poll, my editor, and we go into more detail about the decisions we made in both the production and the post-production. So I hope the combination becomes something worth collecting.

  Jay Roach

  Editors, Track, Decision

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Indeed, if communist central planners could have organized the economy with as much detail, precision, and flexibility as a modern-day Toyota or Wal-Mart, communism would probably still exist.

  Jim Stanford

  Communism, Modern, Communist

  Jim Stanford (2008). “Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism”, Pluto Pr

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• Our life is frittered away by detail Simplify, simplify.”  Or, as Plato wrote, “In order to seek one’s own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.

  Duane Elgin

  Plato, Order, Everyday

  Duane Elgin (2010). “Voluntary Simplicity Second Revised Edition: Toward a Way of Life That Is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• Few literary depictions of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake match the intensity and visceral power of those in Flacco's gripping first novel. The author's screenwriting talent shines in this story of the earth's destructive power and humanity's moral depravity. The emerging maniacal personality, revealed in increasingly gruesome and venomous detail, rivals the Ripper.Dickens meets Hannibal Lecter. Brace yourself.

  William Bernhardt

  Earthquakes, San Francisco, Personality

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• Putting on a beautifully designed suit elevates my spirit, extols my sense of self, and helps define me as a man to whom details matter.

  Gay Talese

  Fashion, Men, Self

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• When you see a successful individual, a champion, you can be very sure that you are looking at an individual who pays great attention to the perfection of minor details.

  John Wooden

  Successful, Perfection, Champion

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• I want to try not to repeat myself. But then I seem to do it continuously in my films. It's not something I make any effort to do. I just want to make films that are personal, but interesting to an audience. I feel I get criticized for style over substance, and for details that get in the way of the characters. But every decision I make is how to bring those characters forward.

  Wes Anderson

  Character, Interesting, Effort

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I know a lot of actors talk about the importance of wardrobe, and it always seems like it's kind of a cop-out, maybe, because it seems like a minor detail to some people. But I think it's hugely important.

  Anna Faris

  Thinking, People, Important

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. April 07, 2009.

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