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Detail Quotes

"I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail."

Alma Guillermoprieto, Mexican Journalist

Detail, May, Mind

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"In the 19th century the anatomy of the eye was known in great detail and the sophisticated mechanisms it employs to deliver an accurate picture of the outside world astounded everyone who was familiar with them."

Michael Behe, American Scientist

Detail, Eye, World

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"In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv."

Henri Cartier-Bresson, French Photographer

Detail, Photography

"We think in generalities, but we live in detail."

Alfred North Whitehead, English Mathematician

"My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults."

Adam Weishaupt, German Clergyman

Detail, Faults, May

"The reports of the eclipse parties not only described the scientific observations in great detail, but also the travels and experiences, and were sometimes marked by a piquancy not common in official documents."

Simon Newcomb, Canadian Mathematician

"In a novel, on the other hand, you not only have to describe the rooms, but the clothes, the characters and what they are thinking. It's a much more in-depth process."

Sidney Sheldon, American Novelist

Detail, Clothes, Thinking

"Since I was doing all of it myself, I had to decide where I wanted to go with the songs, how to proceed with the chords, if the sound was alright, and all that detail on my own."

Utada Hikaru, Japanese Musician

Detail, Songs, Sound

"All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish."

Gustav Mahler, Austrian Composer

"You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion."

Emily Carr, Canadian Artist

Detail, Meaning

"Caress the detail, the divine detail."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

"With Fever, the film was so made for the screen, and there's so much surround sound that was done for the film - enormous detail paid to that. I wasn't thinking video, because I didn't know how it was going to turn out."

Alex Winter, American Actor

Detail, Film, Sound, Thinking

"Disney is thrilling and informative and important and beautiful and suspect. Butts was a detail I observed later and definitely ties in. I suppose I was programmed, yeah."

Mark Morris, American Dancer

"A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable."

Heather Donahue, American Actress

Detail, Entertainment, Illness, Today

"Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture."

Helen Hayes, American Actress

"The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, down to the tiniest degree of detail that can exist in the world."

K. Eric Drexler, American Scientist

Detail, Difference, Machine, World

"As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it."

Joshua Lederberg, American Scientist

Detail, Needs, Open

"There are a lot of times that if a detail in a scene or a beat, feels unnatural, they'll allow me to explore another direction to go until we're all comfortable with what we are doing."

George Eads, American Actor

Detail, Direction

"To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail."

Giorgio Armani, Italian Designer

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