#details

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#everyday #everyday life #great #heroic #insipid

My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive than if they had been represented in all their details. ↗

— Joan Miro

#appear #been #characters #colors #details

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#details #died #distinguish #ends #every

With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome. ↗

— Edward Carpenter

#details #imprisoned #life #material #mind

Fearful leaders love to stay in the morass of insignificant details. Because the details are usually unimportant, it is difficult to make a mistake of consequence. Of course, it's impossible to do anything of consequence when your focus is on those things that really don't make a difference. ↗

— Thom S. Rainer

#leadership #leadership

I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#any #conscious #details #developments #grasp

I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details. ↗

— Victoria Beckham

#attention #control #control freak #details #freak

Success is the sum of details. ↗

— Harvey S. Firestone

#success #success is #sum

What I do when I create a character is put in details from all the people I know who might be like that person, and then put in a huge amount of myself. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#character #create #details #huge #i

It's hard to actually take details from your personal life and apply them a scene because, as much as you can identify with a feeling, you just get muddled. As soon as you start bringing your own stuff in, it's like, 'No, that's not right.' You're playing a different person. You can relate, but you have to leave that stuff at the door. ↗

— Kristen Stewart

#apply #because #bringing #details #different