Quotes about detail

Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Many blunder in business through inability or an unwillingness to adopt new ideas. I have seen many a success turn to failure also, because the thought which should be trained on big things is cluttered up with the burdensome detail of little things.

— Philip Delaney

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

— Francois FeNelon

While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.

— St. Francis De Sales

The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.

— Edward Gibbon

Details often kill initiative, but there have been few successful men who weren't good at details. Don't ignore details. Lick them.

— William B. Given

In a major matter no details are small.

— Paul De Gondi

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

— Heraclitus

The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.

— Jean De La Fontaine

Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.

— Michelangelo

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite -- that particular peach is but a detail.

— Pablo Picasso

Measure three times before you cut once.

— Proverb

Carelessness is worse than a thieve.

— Gaelic Proverb

Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.

— Bertrand Russell

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing it exactly right.

— Edward Simmons

I have always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.

— Lily Tomlin