(556 quotes found)
“I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army”
Abraham Lincoln
“It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.”
John Wooden
“The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.”
William Morris
“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
“[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
“Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.”
Colin Powell
“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
“Caress the detail, the divine detail”
Vladimir Nabokov
“I try to keep in touch with the details... I also look at the product daily. That doesn't mean you interfere, but it's important occasionally to show the ability to be involved. It shows you understand what's happening.”
Rupert Murdoch
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