Detail Quotes

Beware of the person who can’t be bothered by details.

Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense.

During the shooting of a scene the director’s eye has to catch even the minutest detail. But this does not mean glaring concentratedly at the set.

May you find INSPIRATION in the big picture, but may you find LOVE in the details.

People want to know about the details of politicians, what they like doing in their spare time, about their families. I think that’s human.

I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you’re never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It’s in the spirit of it.

In the appendix to my History of the Russian Revolution I give a detailed and documented study of the ideas of the Bolshevik party on the October revolution. This study, I hope, will make it impossible in the future to ascribe to [Vladimir] Lenin the theory of Socialism in a single country.

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.

You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.

Let your mind see every detail of your own special version of the very best that life can be.