Small Details Quotes

• It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Courage

  John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• The beauty of life is in small details, not in big events.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Events, Details, Life Is

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Happiness hides in life’s small details. If you’re not looking, it becomes invisible.

  Joyce Brothers

  Inspirational, Details, Invisible

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• It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression.

  Cary Grant

  Details, Add, Impression

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

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• [E]very job is composed of many small details, any one of which, if overlooked, can create big problems later.

  Napoleon Hill

  Jobs, Details, Problem

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.72, Penguin

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• The game is won or lost on hundreds of small details.

  William Zinsser

  Games, Details, Lost

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• In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture.

  Anton Chekhov

  Writing, Eye, Details

  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1987). “The Unknown Chekhov: Stories and Other Writings”

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• A new moon teaches gradualness
  and deliberation and how one gives birth
  to oneself slowly. Patience with small details
  makes perfect a large work, like the universe.
  What nine months of attention does for an embryo
  forty early mornings will do for your gradually growing wholeness

  Rumi

  Morning, Moon, Giving

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• Think boldly. Don't be afraid of making mistakes. Don't miss small details, keep your eyes open and be modest in everything except your aims.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Life, Mistake, Eye

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• The correct word is like any small detail - it enhances life.

  Alexandra Stoddard

  Details

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• If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Details, Finished

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• When playing against big teams, it's the small details that count.

  Luis Garcia

  Team, Details, Bigs

  Interview with Ryan Bailey, bleacherreport.com. April 17, 2015.

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• Most of our lives aren't that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

  David Byrne

  Drama, Details, Exciting

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• Great battles are really won before they are actually fought. To control our passions we must govern our habits, and keep watch over ourselves in the small details of everyday life.

  John Lubbock

  Passion, Everyday, Battle

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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, Details

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• For the 99 percent of the time we've been on Earth, we were hunter and gatherers, our lives dependent on knowing the fine, small details of our world. Deep inside, we still have a longing to be reconnected with the nature that shaped our imagination, our language, our song and dance, our sense of the divine.

  Janine Benyus

  Song, Nature, Our World

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• Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to himself, all his progress should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition. Alas, the artist who waits in ambush there, watching, detaining them, will find them transformed like the beautiful gold in the fairy tale which cannot remain gold because some small detail was not taken care of.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Beautiful, Taken, Creativity

  Letter to his wife (October 21, 1907). "Letters on Cézanne". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke, 1952.

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• The naturalist is a civilized hunter. He goes alone into the field or woodland and closes his mind to everything but that time and place, so that life around him presses in on all the senses and small details grow in significance. He begins the scanning search for which cognition was engineered. His mind becomes unfocused, it focuses on everything, no longer directed toward any ordinary task or social pleasantry.

  E. O. Wilson

  Mind, Ordinary, Details

  "Biophilia". Book by E. O. Wilson, 1984.

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• Motherhood has most definitely changed me and my life. Its so crazy how drastic even the small details change - in such an amazing way. Even silly things, like the fact that all of my pictures on my cell phone used to be of me at photo shoots - conceited, I know! - but now every single picture on my phone is of Mason.

  Kourtney Kardashian

  Crazy, Silly, Motherhood

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• I see in [George H. W.] Bush a striving to be Reagan-like in the sense of having a big vision, and eschewing small details.

  David E. Hoffman

  Vision, Details, George H W Bush

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Seinfeld has his way of telling jokes - and I'm not comparing myself to Seinfeld, his genius is observing the small details of everyday life and finding humor in it.

  Nick Kroll

  Everyday, Details, Genius

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• [Warren Beatty] will sometimes spend hours on a very small detail to make sure he gets it right. After the kind of work that he's made, he certainly doesn't have to be doing that.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Details, Kind, Sometimes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I entertain at home, I take time and pleasure in the small details that make all the difference. Entertaining is about giving to people and sharing with them.

  Valentino Garavani

  Home, Differences, People

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• When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after he closes his eyes. For instance: you will capture the truth of a moonlit night if you'll write that a gleam like starlight shone from the pieces of a broken bottle, and then the dark, plump shadow of a dog or wolf appeared. You will bring life to nature only if you don't shrink from similes that liken its activities to those of humankind.

  Anton Chekhov

  Dog, Writing, Eye

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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, Directors

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

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