#detail

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#bloodshed #detail #exceed #hard #harder

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. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#details #documentation #fascinating #friendships #however

The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#consideration #detailed #enough #good #not good enough

Watch every detail that affects the accuracy of your work. ↗

— Arthur C. Nielsen

#affects #detail #every #watch #work

I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and detailed, and wanted things a certain way. ↗

— Marie Osmond

#certain #certain way #control #could #detailed

If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail. ↗

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

#calls #camps #chambers #concentration #detail

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical. ↗

— Alan Perlis

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The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#details #his #seaman #sheep #shepherd

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#does #just #opposite #painting #particular

It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#both #clearly #comprehend #details #diverse