“I think if you look at any facet of nature in enough detail, you find it fascinating. How could you not? The universe is so full of marvels. Here's an example -- rain, the shape of rain. I was minding my own business, working on my book, looking out the window, and it was raining and I was noticing that the raindrops were falling in that classic round-looking way, and I thought, 'I wonder if raindrops really are round?' So I started researching it a little, and I discovered that raindrops change shape 300 times a second.” IfsThinkingWayLooksLittlesBookEnoughFallUniverseMy OwnWonderExampleShapesRainWindowRoundsDetailsClassicFascinatingNoticingOwn BusinessFacetsRaindropsMinding My Own Business Author:Diane Ackerman
“No one has ever used historical examples, near or remote, with the detail, precision, and directness to be found in every page of Shaw.” UsedFoundExamplePagesHistoricalDetailsPrecision Author:Jacques Barzun
“Life's Solution builds a forceful case for the predictability of evolutionary outcomes, not in terms of genetic details but rather their broad phenotypic manifestations. The case rests on a remarkable compilation of examples of convergent evolution, in which two or more lineages have independently evolved similar structures and functions.” TwoTermCasesExampleEvolutionSolutionsFunctionStructureDetailsManifestationOutcomesRemarkableBroadsLineagePredictabilityCompilationStructure And Function Author:Simon Conway Morris
“The conversation seemed just as boring and forgettable as details of American history around 1805, for example.” ExampleConversationDetailsBoringAmerican HistoryForgettable Book:People Who Knock on the Door Source: People Who Knock on the Door
“The book that influenced me most is Sherlock Holmes, which teaches you the way to deal with reality: to deduct. It teaches you to put together the signs. For example, I look at a person and I see their coat, their jacket, their handwriting, their iPhone, and I am able to deduct some details about who they are, what they wear, and what they do. For many years I was fascinated with Sherlock Holmes. The series trained me to look at the world through these sharp, unforgiving eyes.” WorldWayYearsLooksPersonsBookRealityEyeAbleTogetherDealsTeachExampleSeriesDetailsFascinatedCoatsJacketsIphoneHolmesHandwritingUnforgiving Author:Signe Baumane
“There are certain things in there that no one else would recognize, really. I see details of my life that I didn't even intend to put in when I was doing the work. For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in The Death-Ray is based on somebody I went to high school with.” KidsSchoolCertainExampleHigh SchoolDetailsRays Author:Daniel Clowes
“There is, perhaps, one universal truth about all forms of human cognition: the ability to deal with knowledge is hugely exceeded by the potential knowledge contained in man's environment. To cope with this diversity, man's perception, his memory, and his thought processes early become governed by strategies for protecting his limited capacities from the confusion of overloading. We tend to perceive things schematically, for example, rather than in detail, or we represent a class of diverse things by some sort of averaged "typical instance.” MenHumansFormProcessMemoriesAbilityDealsClassEnvironmentExampleDiversityPerceptionCapacityUniversalStrategyDetailsConfusionInstancePerceiveDiverseTypicalCognitionThought ProcessUniversal Truth Book:On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand Source: On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand
“I bring myself innately to it, yeah. I bring those details as much as I - what I don't obsess over is, there are certain ways I might've pushed it even a little more. For example, [to Warren] your accent. I know Warner Bros. at one point came in. I don't know, until you came to set, I know I wore that long tartan skirt and the ruffled blouse for that.” KnowsWayLittlesLongMightCertainExampleYeahDetailsAccentsSkirtsBrosBlousesWarner BrosTartan Author:Vera Farmiga
“An example I love: Diwata auditioned for the school play by doing a big number from Once Upon A Mattress. I went home and my boyfriend plunked out the notes for me, and I had to learn and prepare that song just so I could learn and know how that feels. I've never had that kind of detail in a rehearsal process. Jason Moore is absolutely unbelievable.” KnowsFeelsKindPlayHomeBigsSchoolSongProcessNumbersKnow HowExampleNotesDetailsUnbelievableRehearsalJasonMy BoyfriendMattressesSchool Plays Author:Sarah Steele
“The Government in their own terms, for example, they banked the income for the backpackers' tax. But they had a process attached to the backpackers' tax of review that they wanted to go through. What the Government's saying now with this bill is any process, any detail, any reinvestment that Labor had as part of its package, we're meant to ignore all of that and it's only the cut part of it that we're meant to be committed to.” GovernmentWantedProcessTermCuttingExampleTaxesLaborBillsCommittedDetailsIncomeMeant To BeReviewsPackages Author:Tony Burke