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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.

    Writing   Eye   Details  
    Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1987). “The Unknown Chekhov: Stories and Other Writings”
  • If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.

  • I find significance in all kinds of small details when I run; I'm hyper aware of my surroundings, the sensations in my body, and the thoughts running through my mind. Everything is clearer, heightened. I might be more addicted to this clarity than I am to running itself.

    Running   Mind   Details  
  • Most of our lives aren't that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

  • [E]very job is composed of many small details, any one of which, if overlooked, can create big problems later.

    Jobs   Details   Problem  
    Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.72, Penguin
  • Happiness hides in life’s small details. If you’re not looking, it becomes invisible.

  • If we look at life in its small details, how ridiculous it all seems. It is like a drop of water seen through a microscope, a single drop teeming with protozoa. How we laugh as they bustle about so eagerly and struggle with one another. Whether here, or in the little span of human life, this terrible activity produces a comic effect

  • As a writer you see the big picture and how you can tell as one character, how your storyline is going to meet up with all these other storylines. And as an actor you're thinking of all the minutiae, all the very small details.

    Source: www.esquire.com
  • Motherhood has most definitely changed me and my life. Its so crazy how drastic even the small details change - in such an amazing way. Even silly things, like the fact that all of my pictures on my cell phone used to be of me at photo shoots - conceited, I know! - but now every single picture on my phone is of Mason.

  • The director, Antoine Fuqua, relies on small details, which anchor the vigilante-as-saint myth in at least a minimal degree of reality.

    "The Equalizer" by David Denby, www.newyorker.com.
  • The game is won or lost on hundreds of small details.

  • The naturalist is a civilized hunter. He goes alone into the field or woodland and closes his mind to everything but that time and place, so that life around him presses in on all the senses and small details grow in significance. He begins the scanning search for which cognition was engineered. His mind becomes unfocused, it focuses on everything, no longer directed toward any ordinary task or social pleasantry.

    Mind   Ordinary   Details  
    "Biophilia". Book by E. O. Wilson, 1984.
  • How was it that Adrian Ivashkov, who never seemed to take anything seriously was the only one among these "responsible" people who paid attention to such small details? How was he the only one to really understand the magnitude of what I was feeling?

    Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.89, Penguin
  • Now when naturalists observe a close agreement in numerous small details of habits, tastes and dispositions between two or more domestic races, or between nearly-allied natural forms, they use this fact as an argument that all are descended from a common progenitor who was thus endowed; and consequently that all should be classed under the same species. The same argument may be applied with much force to the races of man.

    Men   Two   Race  
    Charles Darwin (1872). “The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex”, p.225
  • For the 99 percent of the time we've been on Earth, we were hunter and gatherers, our lives dependent on knowing the fine, small details of our world. Deep inside, we still have a longing to be reconnected with the nature that shaped our imagination, our language, our song and dance, our sense of the divine.

    Song   Nature   Our World  
  • A new moon teaches gradualness and deliberation and how one gives birth to oneself slowly. Patience with small details makes perfect a large work, like the universe. What nine months of attention does for an embryo forty early mornings will do for your gradually growing wholeness

    Morning   Moon   Giving  
  • Cut like crazy. Less is more. I've often read manuscripts - including my own - where I've got to the beginning of, say, chapter two and have thought: “This is where the novel should actually start.” A huge amount of information about character and backstory can be conveyed through small detail. The emotional attachment you feel to a scene or a chapter will fade as you move on to other stories. Be business-like about it.

    "Ten rules for writing fiction (part two)" by Hilary Mantel, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
  • Great battles are really won before they are actually fought. To control our passions we must govern our habits, and keep watch over ourselves in the small details of everyday life.

  • In futsal, you see whether a player is really talented. You notice the small details in quality, class and tactical understanding.

  • Think boldly. Don't be afraid of making mistakes. Don't miss small details, keep your eyes open and be modest in everything except your aims.

    Life   Mistake   Eye  
  • The correct word is like any small detail - it enhances life.

  • [Warren Beatty] will sometimes spend hours on a very small detail to make sure he gets it right. After the kind of work that he's made, he certainly doesn't have to be doing that.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Seinfeld has his way of telling jokes - and I'm not comparing myself to Seinfeld, his genius is observing the small details of everyday life and finding humor in it.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • I see in [George H. W.] Bush a striving to be Reagan-like in the sense of having a big vision, and eschewing small details.

    Source: www.washingtonpost.com
  • It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression.

    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • When playing against big teams, it's the small details that count.

    Interview with Ryan Bailey, bleacherreport.com. April 17, 2015.
  • Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to himself, all his progress should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition. Alas, the artist who waits in ambush there, watching, detaining them, will find them transformed like the beautiful gold in the fairy tale which cannot remain gold because some small detail was not taken care of.

    Letter to his wife (October 21, 1907). "Letters on Cézanne". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke, 1952.
  • When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after he closes his eyes. For instance: you will capture the truth of a moonlit night if you'll write that a gleam like starlight shone from the pieces of a broken bottle, and then the dark, plump shadow of a dog or wolf appeared. You will bring life to nature only if you don't shrink from similes that liken its activities to those of humankind.

    Dog   Writing   Eye  
  • The beauty of life is in small details, not in big events.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. For instance, you'll have a moonlit night if you write that on the mill dam a piece of glass from a broken bottle glittered like a bright little star, and that the black shadow of a dog or a wolf rolled past like a ball.

    Dog   Stars   Eye  
    Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1987). “The Unknown Chekhov: Stories and Other Writings”
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