"Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself."
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"Linebacker is a lot more detail oriented and you have to know a lot more than a defensive end necessarily would on any given play."
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"All I want to do is learn to think like God. All the rest is just details."
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"Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail."
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"Ultimately, 'how's it going?' is the most futile and the most profound of questions. To answer it precisely, one would have to make a scrupulous inventory of one's psyche, considering each aspect in detail. No matter: we have to say 'fine' out of politeness and civility and change the subject, or else ruminate the question during our whole lives and reserve our reply for afterward."
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"If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed."
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"All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!"
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"There's a perception that novels can't usually allow for your kind of absolute attention to detail."
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"The bureaucracy is a circle from which one cannot escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge. The top entrusts the understanding of detail to the lower levels, whilst the lower levels credit the top with understanding of the general, and so all are mutually deceived."
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"Passion makes every detail important."
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"Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat."
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"You, too, can be carved anew by the details of your devotion."
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"In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture."
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"Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar."
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"If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail."
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"Achievers can almost literally taste success because they imagine their goals in such vivid detail. Setbacks only seem to add spice and favor to the final taste of victory."
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"In order to create success and money in your life, your intent and focus must be clear. You can then let the universe take care of the details."
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"The first step in innovation is to know that a thing can be created. After that, the rest is a matter of detail."
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"Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details."
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"May you find INSPIRATION in the big picture, but may you find LOVE in the details."
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