Details Quotes - Page 33

• 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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• The director, Antoine Fuqua, relies on small details, which anchor the vigilante-as-saint myth in at least a minimal degree of reality.

  David Denby

  Reality, Anchors, Small Details

  "The Equalizer" by David Denby, www.newyorker.com.

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• Well, I kind of think that the opposite is true. The customer is rarely right. And that is why you must seize the control of the circumstance and dominate every last detail: to guarantee that they're going to have a far better time than they ever would have had if they tried to control it themselves.

  Charlie Trotter

  Thinking, Guarantees That, Opposites

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• Tedious as it may appear to some to dwell on the discovery of odds and ends that have, no doubt, been thrown away by the owner as rubbish ... yet it is by the study of such trivial details that Archaeology is mainly dependent for determining the date of earthworks. ... Next to coins fragments of pottery afford the most reliable of all evidence.

  Augustus Pitt Rivers

  Odds, Discovery, Doubt

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• Natalie Bakopoulos has that rare gift, the ability to imagine a traumatic historical event in the form of individual lives and ordinary details. The Green Shore is compelling, personal, and full of quietly real moments.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Real, Historical, Events

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• Most argument, and in fact most conflict, has nothing to do with the present. It's always about the past or the future. People can't agree on the details of what has happened or is going to happen. But we rarely know what has happened, and we never know what is going to happen. What is really at dispute is how we will deal with not knowing.

  Steven Galloway

  Past, Knowing, People

  Steven Galloway (2014). “The Confabulist: A Novel”, p.115, Penguin

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• The Christian faith is meant to be lived moment by moment. It isn't some broad, general outline--it's a long walk with a real Person. Details count: passing thoughts, small sacrifices, a few encouraging words, little acts of kindness, brief victories over nagging sins.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Christian, Kindness, Real

  Joni Eareckson Tada (2011). “Glorious Intruder: God's Presence in Life's Chaos”, p.217, Multnomah

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• Without going into too much detail, the end of my major action scene, after the climax of the scene, there was one little change that I suggested regarding the way things should turn out. It was in the detail of the tears of blood.

  Chiaki Kuriyama

  Blood, Tears, Littles

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• One is telling a story about old times when someone breaks in with a little detail that he happens to know, implying that one's own version is inaccurate — disgusting behavior!

  Sei Shonagon

  Stories, Littles, Behavior

  Sei Shōnagon (1967). “The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon”

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• Be grateful for your life, every detail of it,
  and your face will come to shine like a sun,
  and everyone who sees it will
  be made glad and peaceful.

  Rumi

  Grateful, Shining, Peaceful

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• As soon as we surrender the principle that the state should not interfere in any questions touching on the individuals mode of life, we end by regulating and restricting the latter down to the smallest details.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Touching, Principles, Surrender

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism”

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• The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.

  John George Nicolay

  Work Out, Politician, Intimate

  John George Nicolay (2008). “A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln (Volume 1 of 2 ) (EasyRead Comfort Edition)”, p.46, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Use original detail in your writing. Life is so rich, if you can write down the real details of the way things were and are, you hardly need anything else.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Real, Writing, Use

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.53, Shambhala Publications

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• Like most little girls, I found the lure of grown-up accessories astonishing - lipstick, perfume, hats and gloves. When I write female characters in my historical novels, getting these details right is vital.

  Sara Sheridan

  Girl, Writing, Character

  "Historic Edinburgh fashion at the City Art Centre" by Sara Sheridan, www.theguardian.com. May 5, 2011.

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• In God’s great plan, every detail is important, even yours, even my humble little witness, even the hidden witness of those who live their faith with simplicity in everyday family relationships, work relationships, friendships. There are the saints of every day, the “hidden” saints, a sort of “middle class of holiness” to which we can all belong.

  Pope Francis

  Humble, Class, Work Relationships

  Pope Francis (2016). “The Joy of Discipleship: Reflections from Pope Francis on Walking with Christ”, p.85, Loyola Press

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• When it comes to art, money is an unimportant detail. It just happens to be a huge unimportant detail.

  Iggy Pop

  Art, Happens, Huge

  "Iggy Pop criticises U2's free album ploy" by John Plunkett, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2014.

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• Perfume puts the finishing touch to elegance - a detail that subtly underscores the look, an invisible extra that completes a man and a woman's personality. Without it there is something missing.

  Gianni Versace

  Men, Personality, Missing

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• Interviewer: [What do you get up to] In real time?
  Brian Molko: I go on Placebo sites and have a terrible time trying to convince fans it's actually me. No one ever believes it. I've spent about four hours, giving away intimate details about myself that I'd never tell a journalist, in an effort to prove that it's me.

  Brian Molko

  Real, Believe, Giving

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• The tea ceremony requires years of training and practice ... yet the whole of this art, as to its detail, signifies no more than the making and serving of a cup of tea. The supremely important matter is that the act be performed in the most perfect, most polite, most graceful, most charming manner possible.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Art, Years, Practice

  Lafcadio Hearn (2005). “Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation”, p.390, Cosimo, Inc.

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• All poets and story tellers alive today make a single brotherhood; they are engaged in a single work, picturing our human life. Whoever pictures life as he sees it, reassembles in his own way the details of existence which affect him deeply, and so creates a spiritual world of his own.

  Haniel Long

  Spiritual, Brotherhood, Live For Today

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• I believe in God, but I'm not too clear on the other details.

  Bill Veeck

  Believe, Clear, I Believe

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• 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 might be more addicted to this clarity than I am to running itself.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Running, Mind, Body

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• While many have doubted the accuracy of the Bible, time and continued research have consistently demonstrated that the Word of God is better informed than its critics. In fact, while thousands of finds from the ancient world support in broad outline and often in detail the biblical picture, not one incontrovertible find has ever contradicted the Bible.

  Norman Geisler

  Biblical, Support, Research

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