14 quotes found
“Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.”
“When we stop noticing small things, we are no longer truly alive.”
“There is a part of everything which is unexplored,because we are accustomed to using our eyes only in association with the memory of what people before us have thought of the thing we are looking a...”
“GOD in not just in the details, He is the detail.”
“To successfully create illusion, the first thing you need is trust, but to perfect an illusion, the false reality most appear as authentic as the one it hides. Careful attention must be paid to eve...”
“We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities.”
“The more power you use--the more detailed the observation of your specimen.The more power you have, the narrower your field of vision.Exactly, you say. The more power you have, my friends, the less...”
“The devil was always in the detail. And here the detail was certainly devilish.”
“We lie to ourselves about the smallest details, and we lie to ourselves about our largest life choices.”
“Watch every detail that affects the accuracy of your work.”
“Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all.”
“After all, I was dressed in linen and so retained a certain capacity for nonchalance.”