A Quote by Sanford I. Weill

Details create the big picture. — © Sanford I. Weill
Details create the big picture.
Artists are neurotic and hypersensitive, and they tend to focus on granular details, sometimes at the expense of the big picture. I've gotten better at the big picture over the years.
My heart belongs to the details. I actually always found them to be more important than the big picture. Nothing works without details. They are everything, the baseline of quality.
If you just focus on the smallest details, you never get the big picture right.
If you just focus on the smallest details, you will never get the big picture right.
I think, as a writer, you see the big picture, and as an actor, you're thinking of all the minutiae, all the very small details.
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.
When it comes to politics today, the devils' not in the details; the devil's in the big picture, more often than not just hiding in plain sight.
Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.
In civilizational issues you don't look at the tiny details as the debate. You have to look at the big picture!
Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.
It’s never something huge that changes the everything, but instead the tiniest of details, irrevocably tweaking the balance of the universe while you’re busy focusing on the big picture.
Chip is the risk-taker. He's all about the big picture but with a get-it-done attitude, and sometimes I'd rather play it safe and really focus my energy on the details.
Everyone is against micro managing but macro managing means you're working at the big picture but don't know the details.
[E]very job is composed of many small details, any one of which, if overlooked, can create big problems later.
I look at the big picture and try not to create with ego.
The elements of a good story are most definitely details, little bitty details. That does it, especially when you're describing, when you're setting the scene and everything. It's like you're painting a picture, so details are very important. Also, the music gotta be right. The music can really set the tone for the story and let you know what the story is gonna be about, but definitely, it's the vibe in the place where you at and the detail.
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