Details Quotes

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)
Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant. View quote
Colin Powell
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. View quote
William Morris
It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject; the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual. View quote
Alexander Fleming
God is in the details. View quote
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Beware of the person who can't be bothered by details. View quote
William Feather
Passion isn't something that lives way up in the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at ground level, in the specific details of what you're doing every day. View quote
Marcus Buckingham
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower. View quote
Banksy
Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are. View quote
Susan Sontag
In wretched outcomes, the devil is in the details. (Jane Jacobs)
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. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details. View quote
Roald Dahl
I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else. View quote
Indra Nooyi
One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details. View quote
Andy Warhol
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
I want to know God's thoughts.... the rest are details. View quote
Albert Einstein
I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts the rest are details. View quote
Albert Einstein
Are the details of our lives who we are, or is it owning those details that makes the difference? View quote
Mary E. Pearson
You don't forget the movies, but you forget the details of them. (Sissy Spacek)
The best artists know what to leave out. They know how much of the support should show through as the pigment is applied, what details aren't necessary. View quote
Charles de Lint
I was a mere tourist with no part whatever in this great conflict; but it was my rare privilege, through an unusual train of circumstances, to witness the moving scenes that I have resolved to describe. In these pages I give only my personal impressions; so my readers should not look here for specific details, nor for information on strategic matters; these things have their place in other writings. View quote
Henry Dunant
She did her work with the thoroughness of mind which reveres details and never quite understands them. View quote
Sinclair Lewis
The generation of Isaiah did not require the detailed description; his account, "I saw the Lord," &c., sufficed. The generation of the Babylonian exile wanted to learn all the details. ...Isaiah was so familiar with it that he did not consider it necessary to communicate it to others as a new thing, especially as it was well known to the intelligent. View quote
Maimonides