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We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

Alfred North Whitehead

It's the whole, not the detail, that matters.

German Proverb

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

Henry David Thoreau

The devil is in the details, and everything we do in the military is a detail.

Hyman George Rickover

The effort was there. The attention to detail was there all week. . . . We were never able to get into a rhythm.

Blair Albright

Now you can catch AIDS red-handed, ... You can see the damage it inflicts on the brain in great detail.

M. Thompson

The rest of this horrible tragedy is explained in an awful lot of detail by the defendant's confession.

Darryl Stallworth

He is an unusually detail-oriented software engineer.

Steve Capps

There's not a lot of detail in the maps.

Robert Bauer

We go into detail about what's actually happening, how the disease affects the brain.

Becky Reichelt

The closer we look at this, the more detail we look at in this thing, the worse it gets.

John Shek

It's very classic with a lot of architectural detail.

Ron Cornette

Good models are a combination of accuracy, attention to detail and finish. You never learn it all.

Tim Nelson

Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.

Malcolm Bradbury

The people here are following the issue carefully enough that they're aware of that detail.

Christopher Sands

We refrained from announcing this detail previously out of consideration for the man's bereaved family.

Yoshinori Katori

We want to keep it small and simple with attention to detail.

Michael Donovan

People say, 'I like medium,' but what does medium mean? We do more detail.

Krisda Watanasak

The devil is in the detail.

Wendy Sherman

We worked very hard on this house. We thought about every detail.

Pamela Mullen Abrahams

I can't give you detail on any of that, clearly, but we are aware that they have plans and they've looked at this.

Admiral Sir Alan West

The female customer is used to a much higher level of detail and much more aesthetic.

Harlan Gardiner

The detail they give me is unbelievable.

Rick Reeves

He was very sincere. He talked about what my brother was like. He said all the beautiful things that we already knew, but he said it in more detail.

Rosie Rodriguez

A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.

John Foster Dulles

And in such detail. You would just be in awe of these stories he could tell.

Joey Zahn

Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.

Helen Hayes

This is an extension of that level of detail within the Community Plan.

Fred Hahn

One detail could be the link that puts all the pieces together.

Charlie Crist

It did have wonderful craftsmanship. The detail fortunately was not stripped.

Greg Hall

I admit I did it wrong. I was new in town and I really didn't detail it enough.

Joseph Lawrence

To mold them off the real fish, this is the kind of detail you get.

Leo Lampone

The reports will detail where we are today and where we are going.

Shelly Gonzales

It (baking) is very artistic but exact and I'm very detail oriented. You have to have a lot of patience, which is why a lot of American men can't handle it.

Anne Mcmanus

Her attention to detail was fabulous. People loved working with her and for her.

Carolyn Layne

It's such a big operation that it's hard to give a lot of detail.

Michael Crowe

You can tell that he paid attention in that kind of detail to Prince because he admired him that much. He comes from the place of a fan.

Lorne Michaels

This allowed me to go deeper into detail and create a richness of history that I wouldn't have been able to do in a film.

Randall Jahnson

It was more of a detail thing than a filthy store.

Terry Collins

We were able to sit down and explain the proposal in detail and answer and ask questions.

Jim Caswell

Imagination helps bring out the realism of every detail and only sees the beauties of the work.

Honore De Balzac

We just didn't pay attention to detail. We just can't get over the hump.

Antonio Webb

Without clear detail ... it is hard to gain comfort in the divisional fundamentals.

David Brundish

These conversions are simple notionally, but there is a lot of devil in the detail.

Jonathan Lamy

We've learned that no detail is insignificant.

David Winter

I grew up around writers. And it's all about attention to detail.

Lucinda Williams

This is going to be an opportunity for the president to lay out his initiatives in more detail.

Blair Jones

The base molding is tall and has a lot of detail.

Darren Harper

Because the card is so exclusive, we don't get into too much detail about the card or those who have it.

Monica Beaupre

We have seen this before. There has to be action that follows this, ... There is always a caveat or detail or it is conditional upon something else.

Michael Hammer

There ain't no need to go into detail. When the ball is in the air, you've got to make a play, and I didn't make a play.

Tank Williams

So here, for example, on a very bright sunny day, the camera was able to capture the detail on the blouse, despite how strong the sunlight was.

Paul Reynolds

He picks on me all the time because he sees something in me that I can be better at. Little things, paying attention to detail.

Tamba Hali

In any detail or with any precision.

Fred Cohn

You would detail your car if you were going to sell it. You should detail your house too.

Barb Schwarz

We have to look at the event data recorder in more detail.

Mark Rosenker

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

You don't know how much detail people want you to go into, though.

Katie Cook

The new reconstruction was very detailed; we were all amazed with the level of detail that it showed.

Raúl Padrón

What fascinates me is the detail -- the brilliance and beauty of the detail of the cut itself. The cut itself catches the light and spreads it.

Edward Pullen

All of the recommendations will be reviewed in detail and taken seriously.

Earlon Mcwhorter

I didn't have much detail on mine. If I do it again, I would add a little more.

Zack Santry