#tails

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

Don't be so familiar and so much into the details. Keep people dreaming. Close the window, and make them wonder. ↗

— Celine Dion

#details #dreaming #familiar #into #keep