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The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail. — Charles R. Swindoll

It's the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class. — J. Willard Marriott

Success in any endeavor requires single-minded attention to detail and total concentration. — Willie Sutton

With a keen eye for details, one truth prevails! — Gosho Aoyama

Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail. — Leonardo da Vinci

A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail. — John Foster Dulles

The attention someone gives to what he or she makes is reflected in the end result, whether it is obvious or not. — Erik Spiekermann

Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant. — Colin Powell

Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave. — William Blake

God is in the details. — Mies Van der Rohe

Details matter, it's worth waiting to get it right. — Steve Jobs

Good design is thorough, down to the last detail. — Dieter Rams

Details create the big picture. — Sanford I. Weill

It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen. — John Wooden

The man in charge must concern himself with details. If he does not consider them important, neither will his subordinates. — Hyman Rickover

Short Details Quotes

  • Life is relationships; the rest is just details. — Gary Smalley
  • Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify. — Henry David Thoreau
  • You need to be stubborn on your vision, but very flexible on the details. — Jeff Bezos
  • Don’t ignore the small things — the kite flies because of its tail. — American Proverbs
  • People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Don’t expect. Inspect. — American Proverbs
  • The jurist Dahman read the letter for seven days and declared the handwriting was poor. — Moroccan Proverbs
  • If you want to depict something exactly the way it is, it takes a tremendous amount of time. — Akira Toriyama
  • Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify. — Henry David Thoreau
  • Every successful sports season I had included detailed daily itineraries. — Lewis Howes

Details Image Quotes

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

Pay Attention To Detail Quotes

One of the most effective ways to learn about oneself is by taking seriously the cultures of others. It forces you to pay attention to those details of life which differentiate them from you. — Edward T. Hall

Strategy equals execution. All the great ideas and visions in the world are worthless if they can't be implemented rapidly and efficiently. Good leaders delegate and empower others liberally, but they pay attention to details, every day. — Colin Powell

We are all afraid. That's the thing that unites all truly successful people: fear, fear of failing, fear of criticism, fear of letting down the team in some way. That why they try so hard, that's why they pay attention to detail and try to get every possible duck in a row. It's fear — Peggy Noonan

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

When we pay attention, whatever we are doing...is transformed and becomes a part of our spiritual path. We begin to notice details and textures that we never noticed before everyday life becomes clearer, sharper, and at the same time more spacious. — Rick Fields

When you pay attention to detail, the big picture will take care of itself. — Georges St-Pierre

Gay men are perfect men for girls who are tough. They're not threatened by strong women, and they're usually very in touch with their feelings and pay attention to details. I've always had an affinity with gay men. — Madonna Ciccone

Details quote Even though you may not always understand how, know that your situation is not a surprise to god. He
Even though you may not always understand how, know that your situation is not a surprise to god. He will work out every detail.

The audience loves it when you pay attention to details. — Idris Elba

You have to pay attention to details to have success in the playoffs. You can't take anyone lightly. — Nicklas Lidstrom

Pay close attention to detail in whatever it is you are doing. Be specific and expect quality from your performance. — Robert Cheeke

I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details. — Victoria Beckham

Detail Oriented Quotes

I’ve always been very detail orientated, but I have gone from embellishment to nudity - from designing for a woman that likes to be dressed to designing for a woman that likes to be undressed. — Christian Louboutin

It's almost comical that astronauts are stereotyped as daredevils and cowboys. As a rule, we're highly methodical and detail-oriented. Our passion isn't for thrills but for the grindstone, and pressing our noses to it. — Chris Hadfield

Since reality TV everything is much more celebrity-oriented, there are gossip magazines, people seem to be obsessed with every little detail. That's why I'm so pleased that I'm not starting out now. — Andy Bell

Details quote Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking. — David Rakoff

I believe in simple successes. Great things are built very simply, very methodically and really detail oriented. — Bronco Mendenhall

Who could have predicted this, that the presidency is kind of a hard job? Nobody knew that. I also like the fact that Trump is a detail-oriented person. I find his interviews amazing. He's actually kind of remarkably candid. — David Brooks

[Warren Beatty] is voraciously detail-oriented. — Alden Ehrenreich

It's a great privilege to be able to play that much. When you play a lot, you can be really detail-oriented. — Greg Saunier

Linebacker is a lot more detail oriented and you have to know a lot more than a defensive end necessarily would on any given play. — Justin Cole

When I look at my career, the bulk of it has been television, and I love working in television. But there's a speed at which you do it. You're doing seven to ten pages a day on a series, and it's hard to feel like you're doing the detail-oriented work that I like to do. — Sarah Paulson

Eye For Detail Quotes

Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail. — Amy Winehouse

I'm a huge fan of The Sopranos, and suddenly, you find yourself going one-to-one with this guy who you've been watching for years, watching every flicker in his eye and every detail on his face. — Peter Capaldi

Bobbie Ann Mason's genius only grows stronger and wiser and funnier with every new book, and Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail is my absolute favorite so far. What an ear she has for the telling phrase, what an eye for the heartbreaking detail. These new stories are stunning. — Josephine Humphreys

I don't have a great eye for detail. I leave blanks in all of my stories. I leave out all detail, which leaves the reader to fill in something better. — Garrison Keillor

George Bowering doesn’t play fair. Baseball Love is so good there is no memoir in the league that can go up against it. Bowering has a sense of story and an eye for detail that eliminate the possibility that he was a lousy second baseman. Reading a home run is fun. — Robert Kroetsch

Well we took it apart scene by scene. We examined every sentence, every full stop, every comma. He has a most wonderful eye for detail, Roman, and you know, he's a very good artist. — Ronald Harwood

I once got a little camera to use for details of architecture and so forth but the photo was always so different from the perspective the eye gives, I gave it up. — Edward Hopper

Kyria Abrahams, former teen bride of a doomsday cult and seeker of salvation in slam poetry, tells the terribly funny story of her improbable life with candor, wit, and an unsparing eye for the perfect detail. Brilliant. — Janice Erlbaum

Sarah Cornwell has a brilliant eye for the telling detail, and a wonderfully original way of embodying family history. I was captivated by her memorable characters and the perfectly paced revelations of their surprising relationships. — Andrea Barrett

Small Details Quotes

It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression. — Cary Grant

The Christian faith is meant to be lived moment by moment. It isn't some broad, general outline--it's a long walk with a real Person. Details count: passing thoughts, small sacrifices, a few encouraging words, little acts of kindness, brief victories over nagging sins. — Joni Eareckson Tada

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

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

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

In futsal, you see whether a player is really talented. You notice the small details in quality, class and tactical understanding. — Xavi

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

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention. — Lou Holtz

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

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

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More Details Quotes

Today, Jesus stands ready to hear your cry and to answer prayer for you. He is interested in every detail of your life. He knows you better than you know yourself. — Kathryn Kuhlman

Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful. — Rumi

Productivity and efficiency can be achieved only step by step with sustained hard work, relentless attention to details and insistence on the highest standards of quality and performance. — J. R. D. Tata

It's not human nature to be great. It's human nature to survive, to be average and do what you have to do to get by. That is normal. When you have something good happen, it's the special people that can stay focused and keep paying attention to detail, working to get better and not being satisfied with what they have accomplished. — Nick Saban

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another. — Ernest Hemingway

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end. — Drew Barrymore

I DECLARE that God has a great plan for my life. He is directing my steps. And even though I may not always understand how, I know my situation is not a surprise to God. He will work out every detail to my advantage. In His perfect timing, everything will turn out right. This is my declaration. — Joel Osteen

I find that life is easier when it is just a blur With no details to confuse who or what or where I was So when the ending comes the full regret will be obscure — Conor Oberst

Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail. — Elbert Hubbard

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language. — Steven Pinker

What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully. — Victor Cherbuliez

But, lady, as women, what wisdom may be ours if not the philosophies of the kitchen? Lupercio Leonardo spoke well when he said: 'how well one may philosophize when preparing dinner.' And I often say, when observing these trivial details: had Aristotle prepared vituals [sic], he would have written more. — Juana Inés de la Cruz

Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house. — Benjamin Britten

God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back. — Gloria Steinem

I know that aiming at perfection has its drawbacks. It makes you go into details that you can avoid but that is the only way you can achieve excellence. So, in that case, being finicky is essential. — J. R. D. Tata

I was enchanted by the escape into that meticulous world that seemed real yet not... well, it seemed not real, but very detailed and meticulous, bizarre. — Richard Foreman

The minimum could be defined as the perfection that an artefact achieves when it is no longer possible to improve it by subtraction. This is the quality that an object has when every component, every detail, and every junction has been reduced or condensed to the essentials. it is the result of the omission of the inessentials. — John Pawson

One day I realized that control is not to be gained at the micro level of every detail. It is not to be found in what I need to do, but rather in how I need to do every little thing I do. — Mo Gawdat

Race is only relevant when it will heighten racial tensions, so ABC doesn’t mention that the driver was black. They do, however, give you the critical detail that it was a luxury car. — Dave Smith

I'm proud of Lord of the Rings. I think it's a once in a lifetime role, and a once in a lifetime film. It was made with so much care and passion and meticulous detail and everybody was so behind it. — Sean Bean

Art is choosing to do something skillfully, caring about the details, bringing all of yourself to make the finest work you can. It is beyond ego, vanity, self-glorification, and need for approval. — Rick Rubin

It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission. — Sally Ride

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience. — Dale Carnegie

Just because someone thinks they remember something in detail, with confidence and with emotion, does not mean that it actually happened, .. False memories have these characteristics too. — Elizabeth Loftus

Getting overly caught up in such minute details leads to burnout. And burnout always leads back to old habits. The name of the game is sustainability. And simply put, if it's too complicated, it's not sustainable. And if it's not sustainable, what's the point? — Rich Roll

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

Physical education for the body to be effective must be rigorous and detailed, far sighted and methodological. This will be translated into habits. These habits should be controlled and disciplined, while remaining flexible enough to adapt themselves to circumstances and to the needs of growth and development of the being. — Sri Aurobindo

Alex Jones predicted 9-11, in detail and on camera, months before it happened. How did he do that? And why did the government decide to destroy him after he did? — Tucker Carlson

To be simple means to make a choice about what's important, and let go of all the rest. When we are able to do this, our vision expands, our heads clear, and we can better see the details of our lives in all their incredible wonder and beauty. — John Daido Loori

We can no longer stand at the end of something we visualized in detail and plan backwards from that future. Instead we must stand at the beginning, clear in our mind, with a willingness to be involved in discovery... it asks that we participate rather than plan. — Margaret J. Wheatley

With respect to the words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators. — James Madison

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. — Albert Einstein

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