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“It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.”
John Wooden
“Caress the detail, the divine detail”
Vladimir Nabokov
“The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.”
William Morris
“I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army”
Abraham Lincoln
“The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.”
Charles R. Swindoll
“It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject; the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.”
Alexander Fleming
“Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them over and over to yourself.”
Maxwell Maltz
“Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.”
Colin Powell
“[To simplify] is very nearly the whole of the higher artistic process; finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without -- and yet preserve the spirit of the whole.”
Willa Sibert Cather
“Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.”
Helen Hayes
