“I know that aiming at perfection has its drawbacks. It makes you go into details that you can avoid but that is the only way you can achieve excellence. So, in that case, being finicky is essential.” KnowsWayCasesAchieveEssentialsPerfectionExcellenceDetailsDrawbacks Author:J. R. D. Tata
“Well, I don't ever leave out details, in that I don't come up with information or description which I don't then use. I only ever come up with what seems to me absolutely essential to make the story work. I'm not usually an overwriter. As I revise, it's usually a matter of adding in as much vivid details as seem necessary to make the story come clear without slowing down the momentum of the story.” WellsMatterStoriesUseSeemsClearInformationEssentialsCome UpDetailsDescriptionSlow DownVividMomentumSlowing Author:Kelly Link
“It is indeed a striking proof of the essential soundness of the tradition that with which all these thousands of copies, tracing their ancestry back to so many different parts of the earth and to conditions of such diverse kinds, the variations of text are so entirely questions of detail, not of essential substance.” KindDifferentEarthConditionsEssentialsTraditionDetailsProofSubstanceCopiesDiverseVariationAncestryTracingSoundness Author:Frederic G. Kenyon
“Be methodical if you would succeed in business, or in anything. Have a work for every moment, and mind the moment's work. Whatever your calling, master all its bearings and details, its principles, instruments and applications. Method is essential if you would get through your work easily and with economy of time.” IfsMindMomentsBusinessPrinciplesEconomyMastersCallingSucceedEssentialsMethodInstrumentsDetailsApplicationMethodical Author:William Matthews
“The detail is as important as the essential is. When it is inadequate, it destroys the whole outfit.” ImportantWholeEssentialsDetailsInadequate Author:Christian Dior
“Particularly, the actors, to have analyzed the script in great detail from the point of view of their specific character. So that they have a handle on exactly where the character is in the chronology of things. In that sense the actors become your best check on the logic of the piece, and the way in which it all fits together. They become essential collaborators. The main thing is you have to work with very smart actors.” WayCharacterTogetherActorsViewsPiecesFitEssentialsSmartLogicScriptsDetailsPoint Of ViewHandleChecksVery SmartCollaboratorsChronology Author:Christopher Nolan
“The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential. But on the other hand, knowledge of an apparently trivial detail quite often makes it possible to see into the depth of things. And so the wise man will seek to acquire the best possible knowledge about events, but always without becoming dependent upon this knowledge. To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.” MenHandsRealityLosesWiseEventsDangerBecomingEssentialsSightDepthDetailsSignificantAcquireDependentWisestMultiplicityFactual Book:Ethics Source: Ethics
“The essential feature of statistics is a prudent and systematic ignoring of details.” EssentialsDetailsFeaturesStatisticsSystematicPrudent Author:Erwin Schrodinger
“I chose to write about food: food is inherently political, but it's also an essential part of people's real lives. It's where the public and private spheres connect. I wanted to show readers that the larger politics of war and economics and U.S. foreign policy are inextricably bound to the supposedly trivial details of our everyday lives.” PeopleWritingWarRealShowsWantedPoliticalPolicyReaderEssentialsEconomicsEverydayBoundsDetailsReal LifeSpheresForeign PolicyEveryday Life Author:Annia Ciezadlo
“Every life is inexplicable, I kept telling myself. No matter how many facts are told, no matter how many details are given, the essential thing resists telling. To say that so and so was born here and went there, that he did this and did that, that he married this woman and had these children, that he lived, that he died, that he left behind these books or this battle or that bridge – none of that tells us very much.” ChildrenBookMatterFactsLife IsLeftGivenBornBehindsBattleEssentialsMarriedDiedDetailsBridgesLeft BehindInexplicable Author:Paul Auster