Daniel Handler Quotes

My heart belongs to the details. I actually always found them to be more important than the big picture. Nothing works without details. They are everything, the baseline of quality.

Tiny details imperceptible to us decide everything!

I need to write down my observations. Even the tiniest ones; they're the most important.

The little things are important, Mr. Wind-Up Bird.

No matter how insignificant the thing you have to do, do it as well as you can, give it as much of your care and attention as you would give to the thing you regard as most important. For it will be by those small things that you shall be judged.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

The Lord is in the details of our lives.

Nothing works without details. They are everything, the baseline of quality

It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.

If one is but secure at the foundation, he will not be pained by departure from minor details or affairs that are contrary to expectation. But in the end, the details of a matter are important. The right and wrong of one's way of doing things are found in trivial matters.

We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded.

Maybe she, like me, would have loved the tiny details and inconveniences even more dearly than the wonders, because they are the things that prove you belong.

Details are all that matters; God dwells in these and you never get to see Him if you don't struggle to get them right.

The Devil is in the details, but so is salvation.

The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.

It's not a big thing, but I guess it's true--big things are often just small things that are noticed.

A good rule of thumb is to assume that everything matters.

Your big picture will never be a masterpiece if you ignore the tiny brushstrokes. You're trying so hard to be successful that true success is eluding you.

A need to concentrate on each sound, so that every blade of grass would be as important as a flower.

We try to stress the little things because little things lead to big things.

Suddenly, details seemed extremely important. Details were something to grab on to, a way to insert myself into the story.

In a major matter no details are small.

I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, the crucial heart, and you can damn someone with the bare bones of it.

No matter how big you are, details count!