#tails

One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole. ↗

— Barbara Hepworth

#entirely #execution #grain #handling #master

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. ↗

— Heraclitus

#details #know #learn #men #must

Once you get the right image the details aren't that important. ↗

— Abbie Hoffman

#get #image #important #once #right

One important measurement issue concerns the fat tails problem that I mentioned earlier. VAR is concerned with extreme outcomes. If the tails of the probability distributions we are using are too thin, our VAR measures are likely to be too low. ↗

— John Hull

#concerns #earlier #extreme #fat #i

If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#details #fail #going #understand #you

But Sergio Leone invented totally the way of, you know, the details, the eyes, the hands - fantastic. ↗

— Claudia Cardinale

#eyes #fantastic #hands #invented #know

I've been on the show for six years and I don't even know what her history is. I sort of make things up in my mind, but I think it's hard for an audience to follow and invest in a character when they don't have the details. ↗

— Crystal Chappell

#been #character #details #even #follow

Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work. ↗

— Nancy Chodorow

#entails #less #lower #occupation #outside

Occasionally, I would focus on a particular school project and become obsessed with, what seemed to my mother, to be trivial details instead of apportioning the time I spent on school work in a more efficient way. ↗

— Steven Chu

#details #efficient #efficient way #focus #i

If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

#details #gets #his #life #own