Top 1200 Details Of Life Quotes & Sayings

Forgetting your mission leads, inevitably, to getting tangled up in details-details that can take you completely off your path.

In proportion as man approaches the outer rim, he becomes lost in details, and the more he is preoccupied with details, the less he can understand them.

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

The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad pulls - women's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.

I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else

One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

They say that God is in the details. Then again, they also say that the Devil is in the details. Boy, talk about awkward.

There is force and vitality in a first sketch from life which the after-work rarely has... In your sketches keep the first vivid impression! Add no details that shall weaken it! Look first for the big things! 1st. Proportions! 2nd. Values - or masses of light and shade. 3rd. Details that will not spoil the beginnings!

This makes his writing very pleasing to read: João Gilberto Noll pays attention to detail, but only to certain details. And it's never easy to foresee which details will send the narrator or the plot in an unsuspected direction.

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

I am interested in details. If you go into anything far enough, you get into the details of it, and people turn out to be interested in what makes things work.

One of the things that makes characters real is details. Life offers a lot of details. You just have to choose and use them wisely. When you give them to fictional people and a fictional story, their purpose and their meaning changes, so it's best to see the version in the book as fiction entirely, wherever it started out.

Something precious is lost if we rush headlong into the details of life without pausing for a moment to pay homage to the mystery of life and the gift of another day.

I'm share a lot of details, but 98 percent of my life is still private.

Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

Suddenly, details seemed extremely important. Details were something to grab on to, a way to insert myself into the story.

When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.

I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.

In France, I found there is a lot of attention to the little details and to the quality of life.

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 we don't have all the details about our characters, we have to make it up to fill in all the details. So, for me, writing and acting go hand in hand.

I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only actualized by the accretion of particular details, and the specificity of these details renders whatever conclusions the story reaches invalid for wider application.

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.

People's live are expressed in little details....The soap in the bathroom, the flowers in the garden, the books on the bedside table are all strong symbols of a life in progress. You look at these details and a world unfolds - here are their books, the paintings they cherish, the music that soothes their souls.

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.

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.

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

I think I have a very detailed sense of observation. I am interested in the details of people's lives and what information these details give.

In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which are important, will be picked up ad hoc in each avocation of life, but the habit of the active utilization of well-understood principles is the final possession of WISDOM.

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

I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else.

I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, the crucial heart, and you can damn someone with the bare bones of it.

Streamlined time details are especially important, because by having to take a close look, we discover new things. Because of this, details will remain part of the building in the mind's eye

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.

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.

Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it.

The details are not the details. They make the design.

Life is not a plot; it's in the details.

There's nothing more interesting than the details of someone's life.

Details are the Life of Prose.

It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life.

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

Whenever I'm writing a book, small details from my life always creep in.

When a woman makes the choice to marry, to have children; in one way her life begins but in another way it stops. You build a life of details. You become a mother, a wife and you stop and stay steady so that your children can move. And when they leave they take your life of details with them. And then you're expected move again only you don't remember what moves you because no-one has asked in so long. Not even yourself.

When I'm filling notebooks I'm trying to pin down what I'm really interested in and to find those details that are so hard to come by, details that I can look at and believe are right on the mark. Things which bring a novel to life. They can take a while to come.

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.

Whatever I do, whether it's cooking shows, books or events, the details count and that's what sets me apart from other food TV personalities. If you take out the details what's left?

Life is relationships; the rest is just details.

Just as a man is fulfilled through working out the intricate details of solving a problem, a woman is fulfilled through talking about the details of her problems.

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.

It's true I didn't get a fair trial, but the problem is people don't understand the details. It is important to understand the details of the trial and why I'm not guilty under the charges that were brought against me.

If one is but secure at the foundation, he will not be pained by departure from minor details or affairs that are contrary to expectation. But in the end, the details of a matter are important. The right and wrong of one's way of doing things are found in trivial matters.

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.

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

You probably think of the orchestra as a heterogeneous mass of instruments producing a confused agreeable mass of sound. You do not listen for details because you have never trained your ears to listen to details.

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.

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

To be honest, I don't mind talking about my experiences in life, but details aren't for everyone.

I'm very into details, so I watch movies just for the details.

I don't feel I owe my readers details of my family's private life.