#detail

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

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

#against #attention #critical #detail #devoting

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

The knives of jealousy are honed on details. ↗

— Ruth Rendell

#details #honed #knives

When I see myself in the videogame it's amazing how realistic I look. This is the most authentic and realistic soccer game I have ever seen. It is like I'm looking in a mirror. The attention to detail is incredible. ↗

— Claudio Reyna

#attention #authentic #detail #ever #game

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

— Colin Powell

#distracted #doubly #everyone #leader #mind