A Quote by John Medina

Don't start with the details. Start with the key ideas, and in a hierarchical fashion, form the details around these larger notions.

John Medina

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Around Details Fashion Form Ideas Key Larger Notions Start

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John Medina
Scientist
Born: 1956

I think the most important thing journalism taught me is to mine for details. The details are key. You can't try to be funny or strange or poignant; you have to let the details be funny or strange or poignant for you.

Karen Abbott

Like this. The wristbands you get at nightclubs next to all the bracelets? It's always the details that give me the ideas. It's fun to play with fashion because it is a fantasy. Each morning you dress to become a different woman. Fashion helps.

Carine Roitfeld

In my own work, when I start off writing a scene, I don't know which physical details are going to turn out to be meaningful. But, inevitably, certain images will stand out - you start to decide which ones are important as you go.

Celeste Ng

There are details within details within details to anchor you in the fact that we are talking about the real world, not an illustrated children's book fantasy world.

Joe Rohde

Movies are details. Movies are billions of details that come into a certain moment. So with all the years and months and weeks and days and minutes of preparation, then finally you're shooting and it all comes down to these moments when you're shooting, which is sort of insane when you think about it. The details make a difference.

Annette Bening

Women notice details that most men don't. They notice if your belt and shoes match. They notice what kinds of foods you like to eat. They notice all the details, then make assumptions about every other area of your life based on these details.

Eben Pagan

The more light you have in an image, the less drama you get. The details start taking over; the mystery is all gone.

Jay Maisel

There are so many intricacies to our brain that won't be understood unless we start to look at the system as a whole. All these different details don't operate in isolation.

Paul Allen

Are the details of our lives who we are, or is it owning those details that makes the difference?

Mary E. Pearson

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

Terry Goodkind

There's a tendency at the senior and middle-manager level to be too big-picturish and too superficial. There is a phrase, "The devil is in the details." One can formulate brilliant global strategies whose executability is zero. It's only through familiarity with details - the capability of the individuals who have to execute, the marketplace, the timing - that a good strategy emerges. I like to work from details to big pictures.

Andy Grove

It is one of the ironies of biographical art that some details are more relevant than others, and many details have no relevance at all.

Paul Bailey

The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life.