Maria Montessori
Educator, Physician
"To teach details is to bring confusion; to establish the relationship between things is to bring knowledge."
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Christian Dior
Fashion Designer
"The detail is as important as the essential is. When it is inadequate, it destroys the whole outfit."
Leonardo da Vinci
Artist, Scientist, Inventor
"Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Justice, Jurist, Author
"People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail."
Sinclair Lewis
Novelist
"She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them."
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"My height doesn't define my skill set. To be a great quarterback, you have to have great leadership, great attention to detail and a relentless competitive nature - and I try to bring that on a daily basis."
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"It is personal vanity of the most flagrant type which intrudes itself, unasked, into other people's affairs. There are few of us who do not feel capable of ordering the daily lives of others, down to the most minute detail."
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"It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression."
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"We must be convinced that abundance is the natural state of the Universe. To experience and accept abundance in our life, we must be convinced that as we conceive and believe, the Universe handles the details."
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"The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy."
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"Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things."
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"Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire."
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"We came to enjoy; we are being enjoyed. We came to rule; we are being ruled. We came to work; we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life."
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"There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books."
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"It's reached this point where people are fascinated by every intricate detail of other people's lives. And some people are willing to give up their lives like that."
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"Good dressing is largely a question of detail and accessories."
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"It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail."
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"In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which are important, will be picked up ad hoc in each avocation of life, but the habit of the active utilization of well-understood principles is the final possession of WISDOM."
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"In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found."
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"Going far beyond that call of duty, doing more than others expect, this is what excellence is all about! And it comes from striving, maintaining the highest standards, looking after the smallest detail, and going the extra mile. Excellence means doing your very best. In everything! In every way."
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"Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with."
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"The years... when I pursued the inner images were the most important time of my life. Everything else is to be derived from this. It began at that time, and the later details hardly matter anymore. My entire life consisted in elaborating what had burst forth from the unconscious and flooded me like an enigmatic stream and threatened to break me. That was the stuff and material for more than only one life. Everything later was merely the outer classification, the scientific elaboration, and the integration into life. But the numinous beginning, which contained everything was then."
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"Once a week, do a thorough review of all your projects in as much detail as you need to. If you do, your systems will work. If you don't, no system will work."
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"Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details. . ."
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"I don't have to figure out why or how or when. God has a plan, and I'm committed to it. That commitment frees me from having to worry about the details."
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